Friday the 13th, I don`t think I have ever had a bad one. This particular Friday was exceptional. Sam and I spent the evening helping a neighbor build a section of a Rammed Earth wall he is putting up in his backyard. Rammed earth is a technique I`m entirely new to, I had heard of it but have never seen it used. There's not a lot that goes into it. Rammed Earth requires nothing more than a  little concrete, dirt and water. Unlike  the usual concrete mixture that you see in things like skate parks this takes a very low amount of actual concrete, making it a much  more economical means of building. That being said it is more physically demanding. Rather than just the spread and smooth of regular concrete, Rammed Earth takes a physical ramming, of course. The finished product is beautiful and strong.

The next thing I'd like to bring up is a website. FRESHNLOCAL.CA, I haven't had a chance to place an actual order yet, but the Idea is fantastic and I'm excited to try it out. What it is is a delivery order good food box. This Idea isn't new, small time market farmers have been doing things like this since the beginning of market days. The wonderful thing here though is that this is incredibly accessable for everyone. You go to the website, (which was wonderful put together by the same person who's wall I helped build.) choose a category; Produce, Meat, Bread, and so on. From there choose individual Items; Cucumbers, Tomatoes, Steaks, Sourdough... you place an order online and It's delivered to your house on wednesdays. Everything comes from local producers like Floating gardens, Wally's Urban market garden and Earthbound Bakery. And best part yet for prices that are comparable with shopping at the average supermarket. I'll have a more valid opinion on how it works once I've tried it out, which I won't have a chance to do until August, sorry.

Once last thing is check out how the container cucumber and zucchinis are doing, Plus I'm excited my corn is starting to flower. A little behind but it's coming, oh boy.

"Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.... Don't eat lots, eat mostly plants."
-Michael Pollan; In Defense of Food

“While it is true that many people simply can't afford to pay more for food, either in money or time or both, many more of us can. After all, just in the last decade or two we've somehow found the time in the day to spend several hours on the internet and the money in the budget not only to pay for broadband service, but to cover a second phone bill and a new monthly bill for television, formerly free. For the majority of Americans, spending more for better food is less a matter of ability than priority. p.187”
-Michael Pollan; In Defense of Food