i should feel proud...

[labelleizzy]

I am on track to meet the homework Tal assigned: two cardio and one yoga, and try to eat 5 little meals every day.

 

Just spent two hours volunteering in the local Waldorf school's garden. The teacher is Anastasia, I like her very much. She's warm and earnest and shares knowledge compulsively. Today we pruned out some borage and fava bean stalks, (A. showed River and me nitrogen nodules on the roots of the fava bean), harvested artichokes (those plants are taller than ME), picked strawberries and squeezed lemons for pink lemonade which we then got to drink. Got to try purslane, guava-pineapple flower and jam made from the fruit (Anastasia's jam recipe!) Also got to try a South American root vegetable,sweeter than Jicama (can't recall its name, starts with H and rhymes with a former student's name).

 

I got up at 8 to go do this gig, and I'm TIRED. Thank goodness today's been overcast, and no sunburn.
I can't decide if I want to take yoga class today on top of the gardening. Hrm.

 

May go nap.

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Comments

[serendipity17.livejournal.com]

Jerusalem artichoke (sunchoke) and Yacón are tubers that I've eaten. Those particular crops were grown in Arbuckle. Ulluco, oca, and mashua are tubers I have not eaten.

That garden sounds fantastic.

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

Yacón, thank you, that's what it was!

And it is a phenomenal garden. And only one year established!

[moonlitjoy.livejournal.com]

That garden sounds fantastic. Volunteering there seems like it would be really relaxing (in a hard work kind of way).

[labelleizzy.livejournal.com]

Exactly so. Exactly so. And I got gifted so much foodstuffs! Mega bonus! And I got to learn stuff! Super mega bonus!

[moonlitjoy.livejournal.com]

Lovely! When I lived in Cornwall I used to help out a friend on her organic garden farm and it was lovely - there was a lot of free food as payment!