Occidental farm also teaches various classes. thisis one of the classrooms and today we we went to occidental arts and ecology farm and spent some time planting broccoli and lettuce. In this picture I am sifting manure with Natalie. She is an intern there. We had to sift it to make sure no lumps got in. If there are lumps when they put it in the soil, organisms that break things down will come to do their job, and they might damage the plants.
This here is the Hippy bus at the Cric house parking lot.
Occidental Arts and Ecology farm is a organic farm that teaches permaculture and other things like that. every Wednesday they have a volunteer day. we worked for a few hours and had a delicious lunch. after a few hours we started walking back to CRIC which was about 7 miles. it was nice walking. half way there or a little more someone from the CRIC house happened to by driving by and gave us a ride the rest of the way.
when we got back we had some carrot cake and then someone came by to give a Spanish class. I like how almost every day someone is coming by to teach something. and for free.
Happy Earth Day! I'll be thinking of you two today. I read an article in today's newspaper about how commercial Earth Day is becoming, with businesses having "Earth Day Sales", etc...kind of goes against the whole idea.
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