Summertime

This is an old draft I never got around to finishing, but thought Id go ahead and post.

7/14/09
Its been nearly two months since I posted anything, so Ive been feeling a bit negligent. I guess I haven't been going to the dumps much lately, but I have not returned to the consumer lifestyle... Summer is generally unfavorable for dumpster diving with the random thunderstorms and sweltering heat during the day, but it also brings the option of growing your own food. I was thinking about it as I picked blackbrries from a patch next to a stream across the street from my house. I can't always count on going to the dumpster and finding fresh potatoes or cheese, but I can walk out to the garden and pick fresh squash and peppers or go across the street for peaches and blackberries. Growing food seems to be the other half of this freegan lifestyle that, so far, I have failed to acknowledge.
This will be my second summer since starting the Grand Experiment. I guess that my focus last summer was less on the growing food, but the transition of the plentiful winter and spring to the sparse summer.