I couldn’t resist a trip to Amsterdam’s Flower Market (Bloemenmarkt) at the weekend. My wife- whose birthday was the real reason for being in the city- was very tolerant (as she usually is when I lag behind at garden visits, soaking up the atmosphere, photographing or studying the plants).
Yesterday was my last fall class with the grade three students. Since the community garden is basically one big puddle, we decided to do a garden class at the school . A couple of years ago we made nut free bird seed cookies and the kids had lots of fun making them. So why nut free? The school is a nut free zone as so many children have nut allergies. I couldn’t take anything that contained nuts into the school. As I looked for birdseed this year, my favourite brand without nuts was nowhere to be found. The other brands had allergy alerts on the bags. So what could I do? It was time to think about other possibilities. I had read online about using Cheerios and dried bagels as the filler. Feeding birds cereal didn’t appeal to me and I am not sure how much the birds would like…
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