Daughters of Berry and Board of Visitors

We will be presenting the BOG to more of the Berry community this week!! Thursday we will visit with the Daughters of Berry followed by the Board of Visitors this Saturday morning!! How exciting!? We look forward to a great time with both of these groups and can't wait to hear and answer questions about the BOG them....we'll be keeping everyone posted as the BOG continues to move forward! ;)

This Weeks Events

Rain Rain Go Away! Come Again Some Other Day! We have been hopeful that this week could be dedicated to getting our hands dirty at the BOG but the rain has been relentless!! When there's a break in the clouds....we're heading to the BOG to complete a little bit of prep work. Cleaning out, possibly even tilling and adding some nutrients to the soil. Stay tuned.. ; )

lungs for the soul

More than just a few people have learned life lessons from their garden! What could you learn?

http://www.quotegarden.com/gardens.html

Tilling and Fencing

Whoo hoo!!!.... We've made some headway on tilling and fencing the garden plot. Early next week I'll be expecting a call from the Physical Plant. We can meet with one of the grounds people out at the plot and discuss possible fencing/tilling options. Yay!!!

Oh man! April 2nd is going to be quite amazing! The information session shouls go over really swell and provide a ton of great info for everyone!
I'm excited
more sights and references!!! woohoo!
these refer to insect and weed avoidance!!!
www.motherearthnews.com/Organic-Gardening/2006-08-01/Best-Organic-Ways-to-Eliminate-Weeds.aspx

www.diynetwork.com/diy/gr_diseases_weeds/article/0,2029,DIY_13843_5644425,00.html
http://www.wvu.edu/~agexten/farmman2/organic/insects.pdf http://www.allaboutstuff.com/garden_tips/Eliminating_Pests_and_Insects.asp
http://www.helpfulgardener.com/organic/2006/beneficial.html
http://www.howtogardenadvice.com/challenges/organic_insect_control.html

It's a late night and someone is working on some sweet ideas for organic gardening. :)

Free thinking

Okay so we need to start thinking about some sweet quantitative data sets that we can throw at these people. Who are we inviting to this shindig? I think we should have PCC people come to it and get them active and excited about the prospects. Gotta watch out for some of the more anti-environmental folk. They are over in another part of the campus that I'll refrain from mentioning on this blog. So we can calculate just how much carbon we are prevening from releasing when we don't let it out into the air. I'm not sure how to do this. If we think of the inputs of C02 for regular food down in d-hall perhaps we should justtake a specific set of ingredients from which to set our standard. If we have some spinach from Florida, I wonder if we can calculate just how much carbon went into it's production in the form of pesticides, water, fertilizer, and transport. What we'd find out is a dramatically lower number I presume. I think we could even use some form of that EPA thingy on carbon footprint calculators to determine just how much we save. I don't really know but I gotta think about it. that is all for now.
holy smokes. sounds like a lot of work