Sunday, July 17, 2011

harmony in parkland

yesterday i got all packed up again after my week in seattle and bussed down to parkland, near tacoma. here i stayed at the home of relatives, where there is a wonderful little garden and many old trees next to this big, old house. we attended a performance called 'Harmony Explosion' before dinner held at the Pacific Lutheran University campus, where this camp had been held. it was some uplifting entertainment, and it got me feeling the importance of singing together as one of the ways to create more harmonious lives.
while walking in the neighborhood i was shown two vegetable gardens. one is at the church and the other at the university. both looked to be very active and abundant, producing food for the surrounding community. there is a free community dinner every month at this Trinity Lutheran church, in which awareness of food sources is being shared by providing some produce from the church garden and also trying to source other ingredients as locally as possible. there is also in this neighborhood a radical happening called Fresh Fridays. great idea to have these everywhere in addition to farmer's markets!

when we made dinner i rode back over to the church garden to pick a bunch of the HUGE kale that was growing in one of the raised beds i am told is fertilized with composted solid waste from the local sewage treatment facility! YAY! it was a wonderful dinner in which we also enjoyed locally produced raw milk and strawberries from the house's garden.

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