The Harvest is In

Tonight my Biology and Human Nutrition class harvested the salad greens that we planted in Earth Boxes at the beginning of the semester. (Kind of embarrassing that the non-organic box had a higher yield than the organic.) One of the planks in this class' platform is to encourage the consumption of local/ whole/ organic/ cruelty-free foods and educate us with the latest food wisdom and equip us to see through the ruse of the Great Big Food Industry's "Nutritionism."

Our Professor is a vegetarian and a good number of our class are too, or even vegans. Boy, do I feel like a whore in church. Still, since starting the class, I've been inspired to lose some weight (only 5 pounds so far, but I'm using up stuff in the pantry before I start investing in transfat-free peanut butter and stuff.

Every other week, our class put on a "Taste Test," a little pot-luck sponsored by a third of the class at a time. In the meanwhile, our Professor and several students have brought in organic, healthy goodies. I think only twice have those "goodies" been cookies. Mmmmm.