The rest of last week finished up strong and we had a wee bit of mercy with the weather on Thursday and Friday, which always helps. And Friday after work a group of us went to Six Flags, ya know, riding coasters and singing kareoke. Afterwards I was sore from screaming, "singing", and laughing nonstop.
On Monday the other intern and I presented the workshop for this week. The topic was diversity and we took the 45 minute slot to have large and small group discussions with the students. We talked about crop diversity, diversity among our group, and also diversity throughout the world. It was a great opportunity for people to share their thoughts, opinions, and views. And also hopefully some of them left having a better idea of the benefits of diversity on a farm versus monoculture. Raise the roof for sustainability, ya'll!
Tuesdays we have community lunch days and one of the other Green Youth Farm sites joins us for teambuilders, farmwork, and lunch. This week the Washington Park site came and including staff there were about 50 of us working together. While most of us are working on the farm, a small group of students goes and prepares the lunch. This is a good opportunity for them to become more familiar in the kitchen, following recipes, and working together. It was a high energy, productive work day that ended with some cheesy chard, salad with homemade strawberry vinaigrette and a deeeelish peach cobbler. Success.
Today we took a farmers market field trip to Green City Market in Lincoln Park. While we were there the students were challenged to shop on a budget and prepare a healthy, nutritious, raw lunch for 8 people. They had $24. Needless to say it was a challenge indeed, but the groups were creative and made smoothies, sandwiches, salads, etc. For some of the students this was the first time they had been to a farmers' market. One of the best parts of this program is that we are all exposed to so many new things and new concepts. As a group, we are constantly becoming more educated. =)
Tomorrow it is supposed to be 101 degrees. And with the heat index they are predicting it will feel like 110 degrees. Uh, I don't know what that feels like but I'm pretty sure ma and pops keep their hot tub at like 105, so....really? Well that means lots of water breaks for us and whatever else it takes to not have anyone pass out. At least we work in the morning! Then on Friday, in addition to farmwork, we are having a guest speaker from the bank come and talk about checking/savings accounts and financial planning. Good stuff! And how convenient that it falls on payday. Hahah, fiiiiine I get it, I will try to cut back on Target trips and buying Pita Inn treats. Psh, yea right. Live a little!
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