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"having then arrived at the field , and started a fire for the feast, all of our family who had come out to work sat down and began to husk. word had been sent beforehand that we were going to give a husking feast, and the invited helpers soon appeared. there was no particular time set for their coming, but we expected them in one of the morning hours...the husking season was looked upon as a time of jollity; and youths and maidens dressed and decked themselves for the occasion." from "native american gardening:buffalobird-woman's guide to traditional practices________________________________________________ the new site fronts on 35th avenue south of the library and promises to be much more visible and accessible to the campus and neighborhood communities, ideally melding them into that organic whole i was on about in the previous post through an exploration of food...what food was before being processed and packaged industrially could serve as a start point for some though on what alternative paths food production could have taken..organic and based on locally available food plants? a polyculture of native and migrant plants that provided more calories per unit of work? a broader mix of natives and imports fortified with wild foods gathered as an addition ( purslane and lamb's quarters are nutritious, edible plants normally viewed as "weeds"...what more elegant form of "weed" control than to eat them?)...and multitudes of other ideas from other gardeners...a free expression of what could be as opposed to what is...a personal expression of a broader concept in the microcosm of a garden bed...the possibilities are endless...all it will take is thought and work and the garden is open to anyone who would like to participate...we are up for the adventure...who wants in? in what i will take as an auspicious omen i was able to pick up the organic german butterball seed potatoes on my way home this evening...some of this two pounds of andean migrants will be part of a polyculture soon...stay tuned...this will be cool.