But, despite the lack of visual stimulation (which I find makes blogs a whole lot easier to pay attention to), let me at least tell you about my Saturday.
Though overcast with temperatures limbo-ing between chilly and balmy, it seems like several hundred (if not up to a thousand over the course of the day) made it out to the Concord Cooperative Market for their "Earth Day" thang they do every year. We met some very in-touch folks, scored a hazelnut sapling, ate some yummy tofu, ice cream, chocolate soup (I couldn't make that up!!), and so much more.
Across the street, Real Green Goods had a huge sale going on, where Mark and I scored some very healthy, very pretty Bok Choy.
We put some in the garden the next day, splitting the plunder with my Mom's little patch in her back yard. After that we swung over to the Fish and Game's Wild New Hampshire Day. It's about the same every year, but it's still fun to go see the Falconers, wild animals, fly fishing lessons, the hatchery truck, Forever Locked ... There is so much to do for families this time of year and it's encouraging to see a majority of these options catering to environmental education. We popped down into the F&G's Discovery Room before taking off. What a cool space, very artistically done and really quite engaging. The pictures speak for themselves.
When we got home we did some re-con work on the sprouts we've got. The pepper plant's true leaves were showing, as were the Zinnias (our most successful effort thus far). We planted melons and pumpkins again, we've just seen the first few sprouts of our heirloom tomato plants and we're giving the eggplant an other go (the first ones never really did anything, we think it has something to do with the room temperature. Everything seems to be starting really well, but we're sure we're going to have to rig a shop light over the little buggers soon- we don't want them straining for light too much ... then they won't be as productive as we want them to be.
April 22 is Earth Day this year. That's a Wednesday. I have to work late that night, but should be back in Concord by 6ish. Normally I try to take a few hours every Earth Day to clean up my neighborhood- anyone can join a group who cleans up beaches (I wish I lived closer so I could) ... anyone can find a spot with a clean-up event sponsored by an organization, but if I did that, who would clean up the street I live on? It's not too shabby, don't get me wrong, but there's still trash everywhere since the snow left. Wouldn't my neighbors prefer a clean sidewalk? Another favorite Earth Day effort of mine is finding trash on the trails I frequent in town. For example, when I lived at my parent's house I had access to hundreds of miles of trails. The loop I ran on (about 4 miles) was used heavily by snowmobilers in the winter. So, on Earth Day I would take the dog for a walk on the trails with a garbage bag in hand. Sometimes I ran out of space in the bag before I was done my walk. It's so easy for people to toss beer cans and oil canisters into the trees and forget about them, but the wildlife that thrives there can't forget it's there ... it's gross and it ruins my good time. That 'aint cool.
I'm curious, readers ... what do you do for Earth Day ... any small effort you make on behalf of the planet? What suggestions do you have for other readers? Please comment and let's see what kind of fun stuff we can learn!
I'll be writing later today, to update you on my most current reading venture (courtesy of my good friend Josh Robinson), "Stirring It Up; How to make mone and save the world" by Gary Hirshberg. I want to get a good chunk of it read before I put my opinion of it on you, but so far so good. He has an interesting philosophy (I'll be it a realistic one) of how to change our society's behaviors in regards to consumption and waste. There's still so much to share! Keep checking back!
Happy Monday, ya'll. Looks like the sun is headed for an afternoon nap- here's hoping we get some sunny days this week!
Be green, my friends.
Best,
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