Beware the Eggs of March

After 20 years of fairly strict veganism, I have decided to include (local, small farm, humanely produced) eggs in my diet starting this Spring. The plan is to maintain 99-95% vegan, so it’s not a big deal to most people, I know. But after making many of you deal with 20 years that went from curiosity to militancy to self-righteous indignation to stoic smugness to reflection to stubbornness to reflection to humbleness to reflection… I thought I owed you this note. So in keeping with my lazy environmentalism, I’ve decided to become a lazy vegan, AKA a vegetarian.

If anyone is interested (or knows anyone who might be interested) in doing an exit interview/examination for research purposes on a long-term strict vegan, please get in touch before March 15, 2012.

Okay, you may now commence with the egg jokes. Please keep them brief and G-rated. Press conference adjourned.

AT Crawley

5712 Vegetable Garden

The vegetable garden this spring and summer wasn't much to look at (wasn't much at which to look?)... We did, however, get a whole mess of string beans from vines around 20 feet long. More chard than we could eat, a substantial haul of carrots, some tiny broccoli florets on thick, tall stalks, enough butternut squash to share from the compost heap (and some nice compost) and a lot of fennel, basil, oregano and parsley. We got one sweet potato, a few onions the width of my thumb, and a handful of spinach.



Check out the squash mould I made using one of our drinking glasses. I stuck some young squashes in bottles as well but they didn't make it, they got greenhoused to a crisp.

Dumpstered Acrylic Sheets + Deconstructed Photo Stand = Coldframe

Finally decided to put the old photo stand to good use and quickly built a makeshift coldframe (just barely) ahead of the cold weather.

FINAL DRAFT

Quantification Of Hillside Ground Cover Using Publicly Available Software Final

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