Turning Compost; Succulents and SWADMAN

The last week or so has been excit­ing– I found out that I was accepted to Chico State’s Anthro­pol­ogy Depart­ment, and I’ve finally started ger­mi­nat­ing the rest of my tomato seeds that I got from TomatoBob.com. Also man­aged to snap some neat trees and suc­cu­lents grow­ing around Bal­boa Park in San Diego– cacti are truly breathtaking.

On a dif­fer­ent front, I’m hop­ing to dis­trib­ute a bunch of tomato plants in a month or two. I’ve got about 150 poten­tial seedlings, and not enough space in my yard. I’ve been think­ing about under­ground and local food sys­tems, and won­der if a sort of micro­farm­ing project might not work down here in the sub­urbs of San Diego. Call it Social Wide Area Dis­trib­uted Micro­farm­ing Action Net­work, or SWADMAN for short. Easy enough, huh? Let’s all be big strong burly Swad­men and get our farm­ing on!