Dandilions!

First and foremost great job with the dandelion ice cream it was so good. I want a dandelion cookbook now! I though the guest lecturer did an amazing job and was a great choice by the group. She was really insightful, and provided us with a lot of great information, recourses and visual displays. The video that she showed about the children in Mexico just stunned me. I have spent a lot of my life working closely with both typically developing children and kids with disabilities and watching these four and five year olds who could not complete simple motor tasks was just sending off alarm bells that there was a serious problem here. The knowledge that pesticides can inflict so much damage on the bodies systems is very disturbing to me. Although the pesticides used in Mexico are most likely subjected to less stringent safety laws it goes along way in showing how these things can get into your system and cause lifelong pervasive damage. I am very glad to hear that Ontario is taking a stand against pesticides because it is another step in the fight to allowing nature to be nature without striving for an ideal of aesthetics. Choosing a beautiful lawn over the safety of ones family and neighbours seems crazy to me. I remember being younger and seeing the no walking on signs on lawns after they have been sprayed with pesticides and thinking ‘what a waste that is, why would you want a lawn you can’t play on.’ Maybe we all need to spend more time thinking like 10 year olds, we should enjoy our natural word not try to manufacture it.