Monday

It's monday morning and the winterbreak is over.
Last friday i went to Tapolas community garden for a job interview. It's quite far away, so my brother drove me there, and if i can go work there, this spring, i'm going to have to take two buses there, from Lahti to Niinikoski. One bus goes there in the morning and one bus goes back to Orimattila in the afternoon. They have all kinds of vegetables there and appletrees and currantbushes that we're going to trim. They also have eighteen milkcows, one bull, some calfs and chickens (hens). The woman who interviewed me talked a lot, i almost didn't get a word in, but she seemed nice.

A week before that i went to an interview at Korso, Vantaa. It was at Vantaas Steiner-school and the fields are right next to the school. It was Rudolf Steiner who established biodynamic agriculture. And both of the gardens i'm applying are biodynamic gardens. It means they use compost, manure and preparations. Crop-cycling is an important thing and they use astronomical planting calendar, meaning they plant and harvest the crop when the mooncycle is appropriate for the plants. It's also about the diversity of the nature, maintaining and enhancing the ecological harmony and life in general. In these communities people work closely together and respect the animals and see them as workmates, not as production units. I can't say much more about it yet, i'll see what it's really like, in practice, at the workplaces.

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My favorite vegetables:

sweet corn and
broccoli.

Favorite berries and fruits:

cherries,
avocados,
blackcurrants and
watermelons.

Favorite flowers:

poppies,
sunflowers and
cornflowers (aka batchelor's button).

Favorite trees:

larch,
cherry- and appletrees, and
lilac.

Favorite herbs:

basil,
lemon balm,
rosemary and
thyme.

Alliums and other favorites:

garlic,
artichokes hearts (as food),
chickpeas.