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Weekly Community Dinner: Arielle in the lead, serves old family favorite

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“My grandmother makes a pot roast with potatoes and carrots every time we visit her,”

— says Arielle, who wanted her dinner to be one that reminded her of her family. At some point I asked her how we were doing. Fine! She said.

Arielle, one of our new podmates, in last night’s second weekly Community Dinner of the new semester, served her family pot roast up for all of us along with other goodies made by and with her step mom Leslie, who also participated, calling this second-ever (for her) Community Dinner already a habit. Aaron’s mom Joanne also attended, a welcome surprise. She comes once in a while, and this time brought with her news of a new film to be shown downtown at the Buskirk Chumley on Sunday afternoon, at 4:30 p.m. I plan to attend.

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Summertime, and the livin’ IS easy!

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It has been two years since I put up a blogpost on the Green Acres site, which, if you notice, has now combined the former three sites (GANA, GANG, and GANE) into one, with a new name, Green Acres Village.

The Green Acres Neighborhood Garden facebook page has been active during these two years. It too is going to change. We are going to retitle it Green Acres Urban Farm, to reflect the evolutionary dynamic that this place presents.

Also, there are many posts, usually with the word LOCAL in all caps on my very active exopermaculture.com site, most of them referring to life in Green Acres in some way or other.

Meanwhile, this afternoon I took some pics of the garden which is going crazy with life. YES!

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Cabbages, growing gigantic on side of hugelkulture bed.

 

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Oh wow! Look center right. The very first ripe blackberry, which I promptly snatched. YES!

 

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One end of the original “pond,” ahem, newly renamed “wetland.” Notice the wild berries.

 

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Other end of “pond.” Too bad the sky is too grey for the purple blooms to really show up.

 

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Notice the tiny red/purple flower. Brie’s Mom planted that a few weeks ago. Then, just today, Brie’s Dad was here and placed another of his wonderful little sculptures (to left of sign) sautered with silverware found at a garage sale. “I’m still experimenting,” He told me. “Yes,” I responded, “aren’t we all?”

 

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Pot of herbs on steps to porch.

 

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Bee balm. See the bee? Slightly left of center.

 

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Tools of the trade . . .

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