I went out in the garden today and was pleasantly surprised; it looks and feels like spring. The asparagus has sprouted new shafts right along side the old dead ones, the tomatoes are flowering and producing quite the bounty, the brussel sprouts are trucking (slowly, to my distaste), and our late crop of peppers are becoming pretty lush!
Along side these pseudo-spring growths though, comes a crop of the fall: green manure or cover crop. After throwing the seed by hand, raking the soil a bit, and placing a row cover on the bed, the seeds have started to sprout. The cover crop should get to be about three inches tall before frost and then will get plowed under next spring.
Just a heads up, we will no longer have Documentaries and Discussions on Thursday nights. Instead we will have discussions and meetings in Wallace 102. We feel sufficiently educated (for the time being) and want to start making changes on campus.
Farewell,
Will