Semesters over! For Sal at least, yay!!!! No longer does Sal feel guilty about not working on the weekend. Many of our friends are disappearing to head off for a break, but we are still here, and soon Marg and Phil will be too.
Now that Spring is here and people are getting out and about. The new Durham Farmers Market has opened, which is exciting. The old market used to be in a car park during summer and a community center in the winter. The dedicated market facilities (pictured below) were still under construction when we arrived and we helped do a little bit of work there with the community garden. Having aesthetically pleasing covered, but open-air, facilities for the market is fantastic. There are hundreds of people there all day which brings a lot of business and life to part of Durham that is otherwise under-utilized.
Turning to the community garden, up until now we were only there on Saturday mornings but were recently asked to help tutor the students in some of their high school subjects on Friday evenings. So yesterday evening we went along. Sal helped one of the guys with maths and Nic was supposed to help with science but the two girls who needed help didn't come.
It was interesting to watch the students setting up for the market the following day, seeing as though we had never seen this aspect of the garden before. Below is the chaos of the community garden on a Friday night. The second picture is of Fabian, Dante and David preparing vegetables for the market.
Nic has been away setting up switchgrass trials and preparing for his canola harvest. Below is a picture of Nic's work colleagues, Kim and Pete, planting switchgrass.
Nic recently read Camping and Woodcraft: A Handbook for Vacation Campers and for Travelers in the Wilderness. This book was published in 1917 and was by Horace Kephart (1862-1931). Kephart is described on wikipedia as an American travel writer best known as the author of Our Southern Highlanders, about his life in the Great Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina. This camping guide is still in press and is apparently highly regarded. This guide states that the only way to have good coffee is to roast and grind your own and also states that it isn't too hard. The point of telling you this is that Sal's hatred of US coffee has driven us to try roasting our own beans (for the record, Nic doesn't think the coffee is that bad). Nic did some research and ordered in large bag of beans. Results so far have been mixed but the bad coffee we have made still seems to be superior to the US stuff.
3 comments:
Order it in from BC, Washington or Oregon. I thought it was alright.
And what are you using Farenheight for? There is only one kind of measure of temperature - KELVIN.
So what worked better? Hotter for shorter or cooler for longer?
There was in interesting doco on the history of coffee in the USA. Apparently they have been taking the cheaper crappier beans for over 50yrs to keep the price of coffee down.
So good option of making your own.
Cheers, Tim.
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