What a Day!
Whew! Sorry I haven’t been doing much blogging lately–March has been a very busy month, and we’ve been doing too much to stop and blog about it! To illustrate: Sunday, March 30th, the Bowdon Lions Club held a benefit pancake dinner at the Community Center for Jim Kunz to help defray expenses while he and Sandy are in Rochester, MN for Jim to receive treatment. The food was great and the dinner was well attended. The Lions will have their funds matched by up to $1000 by Thrivent. People working together to help each other.
Immediately following the dinner, the Horizons Steering Committee held a presentation in the basement of the Lutheran Church on organic gardening. The guest speaker, Dwight Duke, was phenomenal–all that knowledge in one man’s mind is absolutely amazing. I learned more about gardening–organic, sustainable gardening–in that one presentation than I have picked up in a lifetime! What a wonderful boost to our community gardens effort.
Then Patti Patrie and I were off to Crookston, MN, for the Home Grown Economy 2008 Conference at the University of Minnesota Crookston. The theme of the conference was “Connecting Local Foods and Economic Opportunity” which directly relates to what the Horizons Program is doing right here in our community. We learned all about organic gardening and farming, the growth of the local foods movement, sales, and marketing. Lunch was a fantasic spread of locally grown and produced foods, during which we had time to network with many different people, including Shawnn Balstead of the USDA in Minnesota, whose picture is shown here. What a wonderful opportunity to learn about addressing healthy living, growing our economy, and leaving a smaller environmental footprint, while eating tasty, local foods.
April 7th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Sounds like you have some great projects going. I am anxious to see how your gardening projects turn out.