lil locavores

i am pretty sure that i have not updated you about how i have switched from spreading the Good News of the Hebrew and Christian Bibles to spreading the Good News of local fresh seasonal foods?

i joined the council of our local organic farmers' market this spring. after two semesters of sending my undergraduates to do field work comparing and contrasting regional farm stands and markets and chain grocery stores, the market manager, larry asked me to help with their new initiative, sprouts. i go along to the markets on saturday mornings when i am in town to help lil people become better consumers. this is my lot in life.

this week, we are celebrating the solstice with a spanish-language saturday. i adore the sibilance. i have made a cranky version of The Carrot Seed and paula made two worksheets for young people. one is a vocab worksheet that sends children around the market to learn the spanish words for lettuce and farmer and such. i made coloring worksheets that feature line drawings of the produce we grow in may and june with english and spanish captions. i live in county where the sheriff has assumed INS powers perhaps unconstitutionally. he would like to deport ever "illegal alien" and every person who eats tacos. working with spanish is subversive and practically an act of civil disobedience. can you believe that i just wrote that? can you believe that i live here?

so tomorrow, a cranky first in spanish. then in english.