Earth Day: How We Celebrated April 20

Our Earth Day weekend continued today.  Instead of attending any events, we spent most of the day at home.  It was over 70°F – which is amazing since it hasn’t been that warm since last October.  So lets get the day started.

First things first.  We had to have some breakfast.  Bacon and farm-fresh eggs – perfect…except that we were getting low on eggs.  After breakfast, I went outside to check out the back 40 because we had a day of yard work planned.  Yesterday, we ordered a mix of a half-yard of top soil and a half-yard of mushroom compost.  Luckily for us, they delivered on Sunday.  I was outside checking things out and I saw the truck come down the street.  For whatever reason, there is a house on the corner of a court in eyesight from our house that has the same house number.  So I sprinted down there and re-routed him to our house. 

A few weeks ago, I built a 4′x8′x12″ box for a raised bed.  Finally, we can fill it up to get ready for veggie season.  Instead of tearing the grass out, I made a “lasagna garden.”  A lasagna garden is when you take newspaper and cover the ground like you’re making lasagna – put the paper down overlapping and wet it down.  I did the math, thanks to some calculator via a Google search, and the box I made would hold almost exactly one yard of dirt.

Before we really got started moving all of that dirt to the back yard, we decided to visit our “egg guy.”  We found someone with local honey a few miles from our house.  One day we were picking up honey and noticed a stack  of eggs (it was winter, so the chickens weren’t out).  So now we have our egg  guy.  We pick-up about two-dozen eggs/week.  The best part – they only charge us $2/dozen.  Today we went over and they only had the eggs from this morning which weren’t washed yet.  We took them unwashed and will take care of that ourselves.  They also spun out some more honey for us as we were out.  The kids got to feed the chickens – so they got a kick out of that.

Anyway – the rest of the day consisted of moving a yard of dirt to our pretty little box.  We also did a lot of general yard work.  Then, as a Dunkin Donuts coffee lover, I rode my bike to pick up a nice iced coffee afer a long day of work.  The weekend is over and it was a reminder that earth day is everyday.