Friday, July 18, 2014

lettuce, bugs, and ricotta


Driving to the Vickie Bunnell Preserve was very bumpy. Losing radio signal and listening to French people was funny just because we barely understood them.
 
When we got to the site we met Richard [Van de Poll], who showed us the way to save the native plants. At first it was okay and then I thought, what am I looking for again? After a while you got the hang of spotting the wall lettuce.
 
Dirty hands!

The bugs were just around the top of your head and or next to your ears, and that was very annoying. Then we pulled out the head net which kept the bugs off for a bit, but then I could not see well through the net. The worst thing was getting dirty under my finger nails which were growing and now they are short and dirty; wonderful.
 
Overall the collection of the wall lettuce was amazing - 7 buckets filled with just the plant.
 
Buckets and buckets of wall lettuce!
 
 
Now I'm thinking about dinner which was good. We made shells filled with ricotta with maraina sauce, salad and garlic bread. It was a nice good dinner with Wink, Leah and Cindi. And of course my other LEAF team members Sam, Nicole, and Sharil!
 
~Aura Hernandez

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