Growing Cities CLP

This clp was definitely one of my favorites. I love seeing organic farmers who love doing what they do and love giving back to the community and to the environment.

The "Growing Cities" documentary is a film about urban farming in America and how it changes the way we eat. I think that this film made me feel that everyone deserves to eat healthy, mostly low-income families, have the right to have access to healthy food. This film also showed that getting kids involved in the garden teaches them life skills that they maybe would not learn because of family and neighborhood reasons. Gardens and nature in general, I think, brings people together and makes them realize that they are the same. They all truly want good in this world and want to help people in need. Everyone deserves access to healthy food. Everyone needs another option besides McDonalds.

This film made me want to start an organic garden in a poverty area in the U.S. and grow fresh veggies and other various organic healthy foods so they will have the choice of having organic food. This is a serious issue and I truly believe that we can start more and more urban gardens and we can feed the whole country on organic farming.

Working on the farm, or really just cleaning the produce for CSA.

I went to help at the farm today and I cleaned a BUNCH of produce-kale and collards and chard. It was fun and very destressing and Amanda brought me and Allie chocolate chip cookies. They were awesome.

This is me attemping to take a selfie...

TR Farmers Market adventure :)

Me and my friend Mitchell went to the TR farmers market tonght and I got amazing yummy cinnamon swirl bread and Mitchell got a bbq sandwhich(yuck). We listened to the bluegrass band for a while-it was fun! But cold out! Fall is here :)

This broken winged butterfly made my night. 

Swamp Rabbit bike ride...

Just got back from a sketchy bike ride in the dark. I went with my friend, Mitchell. There needs to be lights on The Swamp Rabbit Trail. But other than the sketchy-ness, it was a fun short bike ride!

Here are some(not too good looking cause it was dark) pics...

However, I do think the pic below is sorta artsy.

 

Farmers Market Task-The Earth Market

The Earth Market, which is apart of the Slow Food Movement, only comes once a month to downtown Greenville. I found this market to be very unique, in that, it has no GMOs, totally local and organic food, and the farmer has to be present. It is the only one of its kind in the country. I found that really cool.

Logan and I went yesterday to check it out! It is a very small farmers market and they had a lot of different kinds of meat, but we still found some things to buy. This is what I bought:

 The bread is AMAZING and the dark chocolate(which was pretty expensive, but oh well. I'm supporting local food so it's okay) is to die for! We had fun! AND we lucked out and got a parking spot right in front of the market! It was Definitely a successful trip!

Shi Center for Sustainability

 My Ecos classmates and I are submitting a video for a contest in the South about how we handle/view Climate Change at Furman University and in the Greenville community. Each of us has a partner and we have a different part of campus/ initiative we are going to talk about for the video.

 My partner and I are going to make our part of the video about The Shi Center for Sustainability(shown in these pics) and how many professors integrate sustainability into their coursework and research. I think this sustainability initiative on my campus is extremely important because people taking an English class or a Business and Accounting class can still learn about sustainability. I think this is awesome! Learning how to be sustainable in today's society is crucial. By incorporating this in other departments, besides the Environmental Department, helps educate more students about sustainability. It makes students more aware of what is going on and how they may want to change some of the things they do in their everyday lives.

 The Shi Center is tremendously unique. Out of the 12 colleges I visited in the college-looking-process, this building at Furman stood out to me the most. I love how they have a building(a pretty looking one)dedicated to the sustainable practice on campus and in the community. Environmental or Sustainable majors can come and hang out and people who want to learn more about sustainability on campus/in the community can come and ask one of the nice employees. You can learn about the vital initiatives Furman is making to be more sustainable and also help educate others. Everyone should do their part in making their lives more sustainable.

Will blog again soon,
Lettie

WELCOME TREE HUGGERS…and other people I guess.

Welcome to my Eco-Friendly blog! If you are not Eco-Friendly, then you cannot look at my posts. Haha I'm just joking. ;) I want everyone to learn the ways we as a society can help the land we live on! I will be posting various assignments that I will be doing for my Environmental class. So please feel free to comment and I will defintely comment back. Remember, always keep calm and go green!

This is me when I hiked over 50 miles on the Appalachian Trail…

I know, I was extremely sunburnt! 

Will post again soon,
Lettie