Lab report the fourth

Hello, computer people!

First and foremost, Nancy and Viktor (my plants) are doing quite well. I keep them on the windowsill in my bedroom, with the window cracked. I block it from my cats with a giant map of the United States. I'm pretty sure Nancy's a sunflower and Viktor's a tomato plant. I had the flu or something when I planted them, so I didn't think about the fact that it might be stupid to mix the kinds of seeds. Oh well, they get along.

I accidentally left my notebook with the information about the lab at home, where I have no internet, so I'm working from memory.

Our lab on September 28 was fun, because we got to play in the dirt.
My particular favorite aspect was the community garden.
You can find information about Macon's community garden, Macon Roots, right here.
I guess that the best part of a community garden, besides training people to become slightly more self-sufficient, is that it promotes a sense of community where it might not have originally existed. (I know, it seems like a cop-out, because it's in the name.) People learn to work together with this sort of thing, but they also learn to work.
[Oh man, these html codes confuse me.]
When you only know how to go to Kroger and buy a can of green beans, you don't really know what goes in to what you ingest. When you farm the goods yourself, you appreciate them.
I don't really come from a community, per se, but I do come from a farm. And, as sick as I get of pickled okra after the 8th jar full in a month, I have to admit that I'm still more likely to eat them than I would be if I had purchased them in absurd bulk at a store, because wasting time seems far worse than wasting money.

If you're interested in knowing how to start a community garden, go to this link.

One potential danger when it comes to community gardening is the possibility of city-born pollutants within the soil contaminating the foodstuffs.
I don't think that's an irrational concern, honestly.

I was going to make the graph today, but since my information is in my notebook, which is at home, I'll have to add it tomorrow.

Also, at this lab we discussed an environmental activist who was concerned that earthworms were destroying the earth.
The Aquabats issued a response to this nonsense:
Worms Make Dirt.


Ta-daaaaa!