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MicroGreens
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02/28/2015

I spent the morning learning about MicroGreens from Farmer Tony, Hillery, and 30 other folks from far flung places such as; Sister Bay, Mequon, Appleton, Chicago, Houghton MI, Caledonia, Waukesha, Elm Grove, Sussex, Manitowoc, and Stoughton, in no particular order. There were several teachers looking to incorporate this into their curriculum, and lots of folks into local food awareness.

The workshop was sponsored by Victory Garden Initiative in the Jazz Gallery space in the River West neighborhood.

I came home with seeds, dirt and visions of worms in my future. We can all add the title Farmer to our names after this morning.

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ShuttleDave Blog

Variety is all there is

http://shuttledave.blogspot.com/2014/12/variety-is-all-there-is.html

Monica is from Cincinnati and she’s been here 25 years. All her family is elsewhere in warm places and so she travels a lot on holidays. She just retired last September after 16 years at Froedtert in the Medicare reporting division.

Before I knew she was going for a ride in the shuttle I saw her alone in the waiting room. I told her how to change the channel if she wished.

“I don’t have a television any more.”
“Congratulations. Maybe you could give a course or something. Some people need help.”

Apparently she wanted to paint a back bedroom. Her TV was also a VGA monitor for her desktop and it all sat on a large desk. She didn’t really like the desk. She took it apart, set it on the curb and never saw it again. Maybe that’s what happened to the TV. Or maybe she donated it. I forget. She has a laptop and an iPad. Monica does not miss the TV at all. It’s been six months now.

So she retired, changed gears and didn’t slow down. She’s the co-administrator of the food bank at her church and on Thursdays she stocks shelves at a food bank downtown and … something else. And, she is looking into volunteering at the local NODA chapter. NODA stands for No One Dies Alone. Apparently they coordinate with hospice teams ... no one should die alone.

Her job took her to Chicago for awhile years ago and then called her to Milwaukee. She had certainly heard of Milwaukee before. She drove out of Chicago clean and dry. The weather was fine until she hit the state line. All of a sudden there were 12 inch drifts and she fell in love. It’s been home ever since.

She also is taking Spanish lessons from a Russian born woman whose second language was Polish, her third language was English, and her fourth language is Spanish. Now she’s actually teaching Spanish at the Wilson Park Senior center for five dollars a semester.

“Isn’t Wilson Park wonderful?” I asked.

Then I said something about my wife signing up for the upcoming woodworking class.

“Oh, I just took that last fall. My instructor hollered at everyone but me. Apparently I know what I’m doing.”

... The ‘variety’ referred to in the title comes at the end of the longer post.