Upside Down Peace Symbol

Today I got in two good hours of working in the backyard garden. I restored the upside down peace symbol that form the wood chip pathways in the garden. Originally, in my years before knowing about Growing Power I had consulted a friend who was a former landscaper about my garden about the layout. She had suggested thos shape and how I could expand it over time. Now that the whole backyard is a garden I needed to renew the pathways. They used to be of gravel. But wood chips are a lot less expensive, sustainable and do not scatter throughout the garden. Between the wood chip piles at the city dump and at the DMZ garden wood chips are easily available.

A few new plans this year, the tomato and basil garden in part of the front lawn, planting upside down tomato containers along the fence and exploring turning cow dung to castings, along with maintenance and growth of backyard garden, vertical growers, rain garden should make for a healthy spring and summer. This work plus the community garden will keep busy me in a relaxing way. Hopefully it will not keep me out of trouble.

The last line is in reference to an essay I just drafted called “Make Peace, Do Not Teach War.” It is an educational piece of how our efforts at Marquette are not to prevent the ROTC programs at the school but to stop Marquette for teaching war at the school. Teaching war might be a necessary ingredient of self-defense for our nation but I do not believe it belongs on the curriculum of a Catholic Jesuit University, especially when the University has no control over the military curriculum.

Since I daily mix Peace and Gardening on the www.nonviolentcow.org it is maybe only right and fit that the peace symbol in my garden is upside down.

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