Hiya!

So I suppose an introduction is called for. Hi, I'm Jaffna Mathiaparanam and I have been going to Riverview Gardens since the beginning of this summer. My good friend Mira joined me in July (after she returned from a trip to Hawaii!) and we've been up to no good ever since.

So the months of June to August were a sequence of long and blissful days at the Gardens. We built sustainable garden beds and planted those beds with various vegetables. I learned a lot of new words (my favorite is Arugula- which is a spicy tasting lettuce) and about the nitrogen cycle (where you want to pair nitrogen-fixing plants with those that use a lot of nitrogen in order to sustain the nutrient in the soil). We met a bunch of cool people from the community and hopefully I'll eventually introduce them all in full through later posts and were put in situations that called for the, essential but unteachable, skills of problem-solving and common sense. Honestly it was the best summer of my life.

Then school started...

I continued to go to Riverview on the weekends and half-days for the first semester of my senior year and Mira visited during her off hours in the morning. Now that second semester is in full swing, both of us have been using our senior privileges to volunteer here and are trying to set up a program where students can earn a .5 credit for coming. 

And so "Two Hooligans on a Farm" was born

So feel free to follow Mira and me as we document our time here at Riverview! Hope you find us pretty cool. We sure think we are