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6c_6f_76_65 wrote

Finally getting tired of all the garbage rules with non-profits and their gardens. They want everyone to just follow their petroleum based bullshit mantra. I am done with public and private gardens for this year.

I burned about 40 cubic yards of wood mulch into bio-char. I have another 60 cubic yards to go. Damn, I wish I had known how much of a pain this is. My truck has so much black dust I think it is cheaper to just paint it black vs trying to keep it any sense of clean.

My compost pile is growing and my worm bin is now about three large worms piles. I can not wait for next season when the compost and worm castings have fully charged the bio-char and I can run some tests to show that my inputs are cheaper and better vs petro based fertilizers.

Since quitting gardening I have had a lot of extra free time. I have teamed up with seven other people and we are now doing guerilla feeding. Every Thursday night we gather and make dinner together. We have committed to making 100 sandwiches, chips or some other 'dirty' carb, and a fruit. My lifting has taken a different shift. Never thought I would become a condiment and bread booster. I am sure if someone had an aerial camera we looked like a bunch of drunk Ewoks bumbling around picking up condiments, bread, chips, ziploc bags, chicken, apples and oranges.

This all worked out pretty slick. We teamed up with a teacher who puts the snacks in a backpack. The students that need food over the weekend know to just pickup a backpack and go home at the end of the day. No one ever knows and no kid has to stand out. The silliest part is we asked for permission, which was a mistake, and we were told we need to get our kitchen space certified and the kids had to bring in permission slips from their parents. ARRGGHH.. so much ridiculous process for no real gain. And of course the kitchen certification costs a good bit of cash.

All told every backpack was picked up which means roughly 33 people will have at least one meal every day this weekend.

I would love any feedback you have for different meal plans.

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