Sunday, March 13, 2011
Oh yeah...
Part of my "What's in the basket" culinary explorations for my 8:00 am sculpture class: Make your own waffles!!!
daylight savings time!
Today was an extremely long day. For the first time in my life, daylight savings time took me by surprise (I usually am excitedly planning its arrival) and although I woke up at 5:30 and thought I had plenty of time to cook some pinto and black beans for my dinner with Bob, his kids, Laura, and Hope, I really ended up being half an hour late to my 7:00 am appointment at the Risley Print Shop. Great way to start the day.
I was so confused when I looked at the time on my computer and saw that it said 7:00 am and then looked outside to see that it was still fairly dark out.
Nevertheless, I had a very successful print shop experience. I tested some nice white ink on brown paper about the color, thickness, and texture of a brown paper bag (its contractor paper that I bought at the Home Depot for like $10 for a huge roll) and really like how the white looks against the brown. Thom had some interesting ideas about creative ways that I could create tear-able posters so that people can take the information with them by tearing off a piece of the larger poster, but I need to finalize the wording of the posters before I can really do much else.
I talk to the woman from the Women's Community Building tomorrow afternoon about using the space for Ithaca Community Potluck (I kind of like the name for some reason, but it is super bland and think that it might be good to come up with a new name), but a major issue I am having is the whole money thing. I want to do this project as cost-effectively as possible; therefore, I really need to find some way to pay for the rental of space without paying out of my pocket. An idea I had was to have a regularly occurring bake sale and use the profits to pay for the space. I suppose I could always just ask for donations at the potluck, but this kind of goes against my idea of open access to everyone (but they could be voluntary).
Another idea is to get local businesses to sponsor the potluck. I could get a different local business to sponsor the potluck each week... hmmm? I think this might actually work , as long as I can find some initial businesses willing to give the initial donations to get the potluck up and running. It seems to me that if I have an awesome potluck up & running, businesses would be more than willing to donate, say, $50, for us to use the space if they could use it as a form of advertising (Thought: I might have to register as a local non-profit to receive donations of money... hmm).
On another note, my seed bomb experiment seems to have gone well (I think). I bought some wildflower mix and some veggie seeds and formed about 120 seed bombs which are drying near my heater as I write. However, I am not 100% sure that they will fit in the gumball machine, and even if they do, I am not sure if they will actually work or not. Today, Hope had the amazing idea of using tea bags as seed bomb packets. I need to look into this more.
Tonight, Bob, Laura, Hope, and Henry & Theo (Bob's adorable kids) all came over for a make-your-own taco/burrito night. We had corn tortillas, flour tortillas, regular and dairy-free cheeses, homemade refried beans, 2 different homemade guacamoles (both Laura and I made some), homemade salsa (Hope did a great job, it was really tasty!), black beans with lime and cilantro, roasted root vegetables, tons of roasted peppers, brown rice, sour cream, tasty blue corn tortilla chips, a ground venison taco filling (brought by Laura, it was one of the deer that had been eating her veggies all summer!), and a vegan tofu filling option. For dessert, we had good, dark coffee, vanilla Haagen Dazs ice cream, and homemade gluten-free, vegan apple crisp (made by Laura!). Bob also brought me some fresh eggs from his chickens and another vegetable filling side dish.
we had a lot of food
& there are a lot of leftovers :)
Since I have been seriously reconsidering my beliefs about food and didn't see any reason why I shouldn't eat the venison filling that Laura brought (in fact, there were many good reasons for me to eat it such as the fact that the deer had been hunted on Laura's property and had been eating all of her veggies in her garden), I decided to have a venison taco/burrito. It was delicious. This was the first time I've eaten meat in about 7 1/2 years, and the first time I've ever tasted venison. I'm glad I did.
Hope & I talked to Bob, and WE ARE GETTING SOME MEAT CHICKENS THAT ARE GOING TO LIVE AT HIS FARM! I am SO EXCITED! Hope is getting her birds for Watermargin, and I am getting mine for my own eating and slaughtering (Bob and Laura are going to show us how to do it when the time comes). This is going to be a GREAT summer... I get to raise my own poultry (well, Bob will be doing most of the work, but still!) and continue my farming journeys (I need to turn in the scholarship application for the Groundswell Farmer Training Program & I also need to find a farm to work at this summer).
Oh yeah, spring is coming!!!
I was so confused when I looked at the time on my computer and saw that it said 7:00 am and then looked outside to see that it was still fairly dark out.
Nevertheless, I had a very successful print shop experience. I tested some nice white ink on brown paper about the color, thickness, and texture of a brown paper bag (its contractor paper that I bought at the Home Depot for like $10 for a huge roll) and really like how the white looks against the brown. Thom had some interesting ideas about creative ways that I could create tear-able posters so that people can take the information with them by tearing off a piece of the larger poster, but I need to finalize the wording of the posters before I can really do much else.
I talk to the woman from the Women's Community Building tomorrow afternoon about using the space for Ithaca Community Potluck (I kind of like the name for some reason, but it is super bland and think that it might be good to come up with a new name), but a major issue I am having is the whole money thing. I want to do this project as cost-effectively as possible; therefore, I really need to find some way to pay for the rental of space without paying out of my pocket. An idea I had was to have a regularly occurring bake sale and use the profits to pay for the space. I suppose I could always just ask for donations at the potluck, but this kind of goes against my idea of open access to everyone (but they could be voluntary).
Another idea is to get local businesses to sponsor the potluck. I could get a different local business to sponsor the potluck each week... hmmm? I think this might actually work , as long as I can find some initial businesses willing to give the initial donations to get the potluck up and running. It seems to me that if I have an awesome potluck up & running, businesses would be more than willing to donate, say, $50, for us to use the space if they could use it as a form of advertising (Thought: I might have to register as a local non-profit to receive donations of money... hmm).
On another note, my seed bomb experiment seems to have gone well (I think). I bought some wildflower mix and some veggie seeds and formed about 120 seed bombs which are drying near my heater as I write. However, I am not 100% sure that they will fit in the gumball machine, and even if they do, I am not sure if they will actually work or not. Today, Hope had the amazing idea of using tea bags as seed bomb packets. I need to look into this more.
Tonight, Bob, Laura, Hope, and Henry & Theo (Bob's adorable kids) all came over for a make-your-own taco/burrito night. We had corn tortillas, flour tortillas, regular and dairy-free cheeses, homemade refried beans, 2 different homemade guacamoles (both Laura and I made some), homemade salsa (Hope did a great job, it was really tasty!), black beans with lime and cilantro, roasted root vegetables, tons of roasted peppers, brown rice, sour cream, tasty blue corn tortilla chips, a ground venison taco filling (brought by Laura, it was one of the deer that had been eating her veggies all summer!), and a vegan tofu filling option. For dessert, we had good, dark coffee, vanilla Haagen Dazs ice cream, and homemade gluten-free, vegan apple crisp (made by Laura!). Bob also brought me some fresh eggs from his chickens and another vegetable filling side dish.
we had a lot of food
& there are a lot of leftovers :)
Since I have been seriously reconsidering my beliefs about food and didn't see any reason why I shouldn't eat the venison filling that Laura brought (in fact, there were many good reasons for me to eat it such as the fact that the deer had been hunted on Laura's property and had been eating all of her veggies in her garden), I decided to have a venison taco/burrito. It was delicious. This was the first time I've eaten meat in about 7 1/2 years, and the first time I've ever tasted venison. I'm glad I did.
Hope & I talked to Bob, and WE ARE GETTING SOME MEAT CHICKENS THAT ARE GOING TO LIVE AT HIS FARM! I am SO EXCITED! Hope is getting her birds for Watermargin, and I am getting mine for my own eating and slaughtering (Bob and Laura are going to show us how to do it when the time comes). This is going to be a GREAT summer... I get to raise my own poultry (well, Bob will be doing most of the work, but still!) and continue my farming journeys (I need to turn in the scholarship application for the Groundswell Farmer Training Program & I also need to find a farm to work at this summer).
Oh yeah, spring is coming!!!
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