Gardening.
I'm posting right now because gardening is slowly draining my life. Saturday and then today, I've spent three or four hours in the Forest Garden, and then returned to my room to drift in and out of sleep until the next morning. I intended to take a shower about seven hours ago. It still hasn't happened.
So much fun, though. We finished weeding (insofar as weeding can ever be finished), worked out a rough plan, got tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, and marigolds in the ground, and seeded some carrots. This was followed by a breakfasty meal of pancakes, eggs, and Ephporium produce enlivened with Forest Garden dill and wild strawberries.
And then drowsiness.
It can't be the physical labor that is making me so tired. I'm out there for a long time but I'm doing things like weeding or digging, and never breaking a sweat. The weather is nice, and isn't the stressor. But in combination with work, I may just be running into plant fatigue. I don't really know.
Mayhap the official descriptionThe Williams College Forest Garden is located next to the Center for Environmental Studies, on the plot of land stretching from CES to Stetson. We have work parties every week, during which we weed, sow, harvest, and do whatever else needs to be done, but we exhort all of the Williams community, whether they are active gardeners or not, to share in the fruits, vegetables, and herbs of our labor. We make gardening in all its parts easy, and any student who comes with the wish to work a little will be taught how, and then given freedom to enjoy the garden in any way he or she wishes. Green beans, cucumbers, lingonberries, currants, asparagus, spinach, oregano, lettuce, onions, garlic, and potatoes are just a few of the things we are growing this year. If nothing else, stop by in the fall for the reaspberries.
holds some clue. These were work parties. So I can use party context semantics to say that I partied hard on Saturday and Monday(!) night and then went back to my room to pass out. That sounds cool.
So much fun, though. We finished weeding (insofar as weeding can ever be finished), worked out a rough plan, got tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, and marigolds in the ground, and seeded some carrots. This was followed by a breakfasty meal of pancakes, eggs, and Ephporium produce enlivened with Forest Garden dill and wild strawberries.
And then drowsiness.
It can't be the physical labor that is making me so tired. I'm out there for a long time but I'm doing things like weeding or digging, and never breaking a sweat. The weather is nice, and isn't the stressor. But in combination with work, I may just be running into plant fatigue. I don't really know.
Mayhap the official descriptionThe Williams College Forest Garden is located next to the Center for Environmental Studies, on the plot of land stretching from CES to Stetson. We have work parties every week, during which we weed, sow, harvest, and do whatever else needs to be done, but we exhort all of the Williams community, whether they are active gardeners or not, to share in the fruits, vegetables, and herbs of our labor. We make gardening in all its parts easy, and any student who comes with the wish to work a little will be taught how, and then given freedom to enjoy the garden in any way he or she wishes. Green beans, cucumbers, lingonberries, currants, asparagus, spinach, oregano, lettuce, onions, garlic, and potatoes are just a few of the things we are growing this year. If nothing else, stop by in the fall for the reaspberries.
holds some clue. These were work parties. So I can use party context semantics to say that I partied hard on Saturday and Monday(!) night and then went back to my room to pass out. That sounds cool.