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Gardening and People
Oct. 2nd, 2008 04:51 pmI just finished reading Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. I think you'd really like it, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
_greenwitch_ and cz_unit. Both of you are going through something of that type right now. It's not as hokey and whatever as the title suggests.
I'm also taking my organic master gardener class. The demographic is incredibly diverse. There are lifetime landscapers, hippies, and IT people and accountants and wedding photographers. People are taking it for professional reasons or because they want to grow a bit of food at home. The teacher says, looking a bit worried, "everyone seems to be interested in food gardening. That isn't the focus of this course, though we may be developing one for next semester..."
The course meets a couple or a few times a week, but a huge amount of work is done online. There are no paper handpouts; they're all online. The slideshows that go with her lectures: all online. I am relatively amazed.
So far there is some preaching (a fair bit in the text, none by the teacher, some by one particular voluble student), some things I know, and some things I (!!!!) don't know already (!!!!). This means I get to (!!!!) learn things about gardening (!!!!) and sometimes hang out with gardeners, including the crew of landscaper kids taking the residential landscaper course next door. They're actually all about my age next door, with a wide range in my own course where there are a bunch of people in their 40s and some in their 50s. Some are white people. Some speak english okay, with two people of evident Korean descent and a bunch of random other "asians" (to those that don't live in Vancouver: my city is about 50% Asian). There's one student and everyone else, um, works for a living. Some know things abotu gardening. Some have no idea. One of the Koreans is beautifully spoken.
Fascinating.
It will work better when I finally get my laptop. I'm thinking of going miminalist, with one of the little mini-things like the Asus eees -- anyone got any advice on those?
I don't have time to talk about people, but I am very happy. I <3 Angus, and that's that. My coworker is awesome, my mom is awesome, my family is awesome, and Angus' dad makes me feel like a very shy 3-year-old.
Whew. Off to class.
_greenwitch_ and cz_unit. Both of you are going through something of that type right now. It's not as hokey and whatever as the title suggests.I'm also taking my organic master gardener class. The demographic is incredibly diverse. There are lifetime landscapers, hippies, and IT people and accountants and wedding photographers. People are taking it for professional reasons or because they want to grow a bit of food at home. The teacher says, looking a bit worried, "everyone seems to be interested in food gardening. That isn't the focus of this course, though we may be developing one for next semester..."
The course meets a couple or a few times a week, but a huge amount of work is done online. There are no paper handpouts; they're all online. The slideshows that go with her lectures: all online. I am relatively amazed.
So far there is some preaching (a fair bit in the text, none by the teacher, some by one particular voluble student), some things I know, and some things I (!!!!) don't know already (!!!!). This means I get to (!!!!) learn things about gardening (!!!!) and sometimes hang out with gardeners, including the crew of landscaper kids taking the residential landscaper course next door. They're actually all about my age next door, with a wide range in my own course where there are a bunch of people in their 40s and some in their 50s. Some are white people. Some speak english okay, with two people of evident Korean descent and a bunch of random other "asians" (to those that don't live in Vancouver: my city is about 50% Asian). There's one student and everyone else, um, works for a living. Some know things abotu gardening. Some have no idea. One of the Koreans is beautifully spoken.
Fascinating.
It will work better when I finally get my laptop. I'm thinking of going miminalist, with one of the little mini-things like the Asus eees -- anyone got any advice on those?
I don't have time to talk about people, but I am very happy. I <3 Angus, and that's that. My coworker is awesome, my mom is awesome, my family is awesome, and Angus' dad makes me feel like a very shy 3-year-old.
Whew. Off to class.
