Spring is in the air, and that means most Americans will interact with their lawn for the first time in months. During the winter, the average lawn doesn’t need much attention. Due to the cold weather and shorter days, grass isn’t growing all that much. There are, however, a few things that can grow during the winter, some of which are delicious and nutritious. In this case, I’m talking about chives.
Ever see a squirrel selling nuts? How about a bird setting up a stall in a tree with a buy-one-get-one worm deal? Or a raccoon offering a meal delivery service? New specials each week!
Ok, obviously not. Unless the animal kingdom is deep into digital currencies without our knowledge, there’s no black Friday, no Labor Day Sales, no monetary exchanges of any kind for food.
Why is that? Besides the whole interspecies communication thing, it’s mostly because there’s an abundance of food in this world, as I’m reminded every November when my roof is pelted by falling acorns. Why would anyone pay for something that is one tree away?
Am I being slightly absurd? Yes, but surely you’ve seen our branding already. You’re also likely to have passed by hundreds if not thousands of lawns growing nothing but grass -- or better yet, lawns that are full of dandelion, chickweed, chives, wild blackberries, wild strawberries, plantain, and more. Despite the fact that you could walk outside and make yourself an extremely healthy salad with all of those ingredients, you are much more likely to have taken out your lawn mower, chopped it all down, and spent your hard-earned money on frozen pizza instead.
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Have you heard of the phrase, as American as apple pie?
Despite the fact that apples have been traced back to Kazakhstan and apple pie was invented by Brits who were heavily influenced by Dutch and French cooking, in America, apple pie is defiantly American and always associated with goodness.
The lore began with John Chapman, who is more famously known as Johnny Appleseed. Chapman planted thousands of trees, including many varieties of apples, across the Midwest during the late 1700s. Around the same time as Chapman’s birth, women in Pennsylvania’s Dutch country invented new ways of preserving apples that made it possible to have apple pie year round. I can’t say for sure whether Chapman’s entire vision for life came from eating apple pie as a youngster, but I also can’t say for sure that it didn’t.
Approximately 100 years later in 1902, a fierce debate broke out in the pages on the New York Times. Responding to an article suggesting apple pie should only be eaten a maximum of twice per week, a passionate editor responded with one of the greatest paragraphs in American history:
“[Eating pie twice per week] is utterly insufficient, as anyone who knows the secret of our strength as a nation and the foundation of our industrial supremacy must admit. Pie is the American synonym of prosperity, and its varying contents the calendar of changing seasons. Pie is the food of the heroic. No pie-eating people can be permanently vanquished.”
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We’ve all been on a bad team.
A team where mistakes are laughed at or shrugged off. “Not my problem.”
A team where dropping the ball is no big deal. Where mailing it in becomes normal and every student gets a B+ rather than helpful critiques of their work. Where isolation creeps in, making the classroom feel like an island on which you are the prey.
It’s not fun to come into work feeling like people don’t have your back, that success is out of reach and likely won’t be celebrated, or to be disconnected from your leaders and the direction they seem to be headed. Most educators have found themselves in one, or perhaps all, of those situations at some point or another.
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JOHNS CREEK, Ga. – It’s a big week for school cafeterias across the state and the country.
Not only is October National Farm to School Month, but the week of October 15-19 was National School Lunch Week. In Fulton County, they celebrated in style.
Fulton County Schools has prioritized Farm to School in recent years and received a Platinum Golden Radish Award on October 22 from the Georgia Department of Education, Georgia Department of Agriculture, Georgia Department of Public Health, the UGA Cooperative Extension and Georgia Organics for their efforts in the 2017-18 school year.
Read more at www.northfulton.com
Despite rising interest rates, Atlanta’s Realtors expect a strong market in 2017.
Will [rising interest rates] affect the real estate market? In our opinion, it will for a few months, then sales will climb as consumers recognize “It is what it is,” said Scott Askew, President of Engel & Völkers Intown Atlanta and Engel & Völkers Brookhaven Atlanta.
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