Lagging behind...

Unfortunately I have not had much progress this past week with my Senior Project. I've only been continuing to compost roughly every other day and reading my book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. This Saturday, I am going to shovel topsoil into my raised beds with my dad and sister. I plan to actually start planting seeds in the classroom next week- tomorrow I will talk to the 4th grade teachers and discuss whether they want the 4th graders involved in the actual planting. Also, the deadline for the grant is coming up fast, so I need to start on that! Pronto! As for the research paper, the rough draft is due by the end of this month, and I haven't really started preparing for that, other than reading my book, which is only one source of my supposed five. Deadlines approach soon! I don't know how I will apply for the grant and begin my research paper at the same time- that will be interesting. I have decided to focus my thesis on this: that buying locally and/or growing ones own food is much more economically friendly and energy efficient. Buying food at your local Ingles is not living on foods grown locally, just to clear that up! Though buying foods grown locally might be a little more expensive, it is worth the money- which is what I want to argue. It is overall better for the environment and people's welfares to buy local foods. Also, reading Animal , Vegetable, Miracle has made me realize that I want to grow my own food someday and live, for the most part, on foods that I can tangibly harvest. As well as buy foods locally that I am unable to grow or get by myself (like regional honey). Yes, how very 19th century of me, but I plan to do it. My sisters have agreed to join me. We all want to live on a communal farm together! This is of course, one of our idealistic dreams, but someday it may become a reality! Well, hopefully I will have more to say next week!