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  • Page 3 WESTERN CAROLINIAN NEWS WCU students John Thompson (left) and Curt Collins (right) working in their garden. Photo by Danielle Lightner. AVANT GARDEN: Two WCU STUDENTS GROW ORGANIC LOCALLY By Parker Millar News Editor I was asked to write a piece dealing with the cur- rent gas crisis in which we find ourselves. I think come- dian Kat Williams said it best, "Gas is entirely too F* *king Expensive." Relatively speaking, gas is expensive everywhere, and now that the supply seems to be slowing down, people find themselves paying more money for less gasoline. That is if you're lucky enough to find a gas pump that hasn't been "trashbagged" (this is how gas stations signal to customers that their supply, is The problem could simply be that we have too many people driving too many cars. Carpooling is a good idea, but it's sometimes hard to effectively coordinate the schedules of more then two college siudents. That whole process can be like herding cats. The gas shortage is so bad that one WCU student unable to pay for gas at the pump has parked his gasless vehicle somewhere near the UC. "If you can afford to buy gas, you could Win this Car!" is the message painted in soap across the windshield. A note set under the wind- shield wipers is addressed to any student or faculty mem- ber at Western, and contains contact information for inter- ested parties. I had a friend that always said that when the September 26, 2008 any energy to stand still and therefore you don't need to buy gas. The student behind the WIN THIS CAR (they wished to remain anony- mous) said, "If you can af- ford to pay for the rising cost of gas, then you can win this car. All I'm asking is the Blue Book Value ($2000) for this lovely oldsmobile 4-door sedan, fully automatic, with heat and a/c. I also stuck a case of starburst and a case of skittles in the trunk for who- ever wins the car. A portion of the profit from the WIN THIS CAR promotion will go to support Student Media here at Western." Look for the pro- motional spot for WIN THIS CAR on TV62, your campus cable aceess. Shortly after the car was left on the UC lawn, authorities were called and the car was towed. Legally speaking, the student has a right not to be deprived of life, liberty or property in the absence of due process. The student plans to resume the WIN THIS CAR promotion By Joshua Smith Staff Writer Curt Collins has had an organic, sustainable garden for four years now, but this is the first year he's decided to turn it into a business. Its name is Avant Garden. Ev- ery Thursday from pm, Curt and his partner John Thompson set up their produce stand on the side of Monteith Gap Rd. It is off Old Cullowhee Rd past the Suds Your Duds Laundro- mat on the left, just before the bridge. There are several signs posted. Even after the drought this summer, they still managed to get close to a hundred differ- ent plants in the ground, in- cluding twenty five different winter ' crops. Their current crop selection includes sev- eral types of lettuce, carrots, okra, cress, arugula, spinach, radishes, tomatoes, and hot and sweet peppers among many others. Some different herbs for sale include basil, sage and oregano. Starting in February, Curt and John began by putting dpwn -long sheets of plas- tic in rows •on a third of an acre they're landlord has let them use. The plastic kills the grass and creates moisture in order to attract earthworms for natural cultivation. No tiller has so far touched the ground there, as Curt wants everything to be as natural as possible. Before growing the crops they had to "grow the soil", Curt explains. "Putting down the plastic in the winter gives the ground plenty of time to produce nutrients and create natural defenses." Another natural defense Curt utilizes is companion planting. Plant- ing certain crops together deters insects. These crops include peppers and herbs, such as basil and oregano. Another major contributor to the garden's success is the "compost tea." This is simply the cut grass and weeds put in a pile and allowed to rot. It'} later reqycled as a natural fertilizer to be spread around the crops. This is an example of how everything comes full circle, making it sustainable. The seeds from the crops are collected and reused the fol- lowing planting season $0 that there's no reason to go out and buy materials, other than tools perhaps. The garden is positioned on a natural flood plain. It sits between Cullowhee Creek and down the moun- tain across from the Greek Village, which produces r in perative now. We can't keep passing our problems onto our children and our grand- children. We are faced with ecological, global climÅte change. We are (aced with environmental systems col- lapsing worldwide. 'The sky is falling people,' doom and gloom, all that stuff is hap- pening and it is real," said Bigelow According to the Executive Summary on solid waste from the. 2006-2007 N01th Carolina Solid Waste An- nual Report, "North Caro- lina communities created 11,865,892 tons of waste which were disposed of in both North Carolina and out-of-state facilities." That is equivalent to the weight of 32,6997.67 fully loaded tractor-trailer trucks. Bigelow said that acting now, to preserve the resources we do have, is imperative to pre- venting the collapse of eco- systems during the lives of future generations. "We can change it now, We have all the technology, all the science, all the political will, all the moral will umd everything we need tot save the world right now. We can all do it and it starts with each one of us individually," run-off. On the far end of the garden is a natural sunshield in the form of a canopy cre- ated by the large trees that grow around. This protects the lettuce and other sensitive crops during the summer. Avant Garden is priced cheaper ' than the grocery stores in town and has man- aged to sell wholesale to several different local restau- rants including Rolling Stone Burrito, Guadalupe Café, and Mad Batter. Karl Engelman of Spring Street Café has been among the biggest pur- chasers of Avant Garden. Curt and John have also set up at the Farmer's Market in Asheville a few times. They explained, however, that the Farmer's Market is their last priority. The produce stand is number one, followed by res- taurant wholesale. Avant Garden would like he said. Adam Bigelow, a non-traditional student, has already obtained an associate's degree in Horti- culture and is currently in his junior year at Western pursu- ing a bachelor's degree in En- vironmental Health Sciences. He is also currently working at Haywood Community Col- lege as the facilitator of a new bio-fuels project beginning in Haywood County. cost of filling up his caf was after the vehicle is retrieyed greater* thanfiekCost%Of fromv the horse, hewoål&switch. That's a good idea I guess, but a better idea would be to travel less. It doesn't take to incorporate a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) system next season. This is where the' customers pre-pay at planting season, know- ingly partaking in the risk of a drought or flood among other things. But come har- vest time, they can come by the garden once a week and fill up a box of vegetables RENEWABLE FOREVER REUSABLE FOREVER (continued from page l) point they are no longer us- able, being frugal, buying and eating locally grown organic foods, walking, and shopping at thrift stores. To demon- strate a small way in which he practically lives a sustainable life, Bigelow whipped out a bag of Snyder's cheesy-puffs that was stuffed full of other empty, used plastic bags that he needs to re-use before he can recycle them. He went on to gay that he had many more bags similar to the Snyder's cheesy puffs bag, some even larger. Another small ex- ample of Bigelow's sustain- able lifestyle is his stack of Ben & Jerry's ice cream con- tainers. "I've got a stack that's taller than I am and I'm six-foot- four," he said. "The Ben & Jerry's containers I am spe- cifically saving to grow veg- etable starts in next year and sell them. The cups are the perfect size to grow a tomato plant or a pepper plant." Since January 1, he has been saving every one- time use item he has come across in order to use it again. "I've probably got a 7-foot stack of containers," he said regarding the Ben & Jerry's. According to Bigelow, sus- tainability is, in a sense, an ideal that we can strive for daily by living in a minimal- ist way and adopting the "re- duce, reuse, recycle" philoso- phy. Sustainability's focus is to use earth's resources at the same rate the earth naturally produces them in order to sustain earth as well as man- kind. According to Greenliving. com, the generation of mu- nicipal solid waste (trash) has increased by 60-percent from 1980 to 2005, a statistic taken from the United States Envi- ronmental Protection Agency. This increase is a problem. It is increasing the amount of harm we, as humans and con- sumers, place on the environ- ment. Future generations will feel the concrete repercus- sions that we are passing on. "The thing is we have an im- terested, students aræenéoG-• aged to email the student at embassyrecords@gmail. com. with the option of picking their own. Curt hopes that in the fu- ture everyone will start their own sustainable garden. "Not only will it decrease pollu- tion, but it will also decrease food costs. It would be nice," he laughs, "eéen if it does put me out of business." USA THE STORY BEHIND THE PHOTO As a metaphor while studying horticulture at Haywood Community college, Adam Bigelow grew out his own crop of hair while growing crops for class. The picture to the left is Bigelow pre-shaven. To complete the metaphor, he shaved and cut his hair as he cut and harvested his crops for graduation.
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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolin...

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