How one class grew from the roots of reading and writing to an urban garden that shapes our thinking about food, community and the journey from the field to the table.



In this class, students are encouraged to reflect and blog about what resonates with them during the work we approach each week. Once a week, usually later in the week, my students submit entries, we go over them and see what will get posted. ~Mary Ann D'Urso, Instructor




Yoga Exercise

Tiffany Taylor

I enjoyed being in yoga class yesterday. The teacher Emma was great. I liked when we had to say "Om," to start relaxing. Yoga for me was relaxing when I stretched my arms in the air. Yoga is peaceful to the mind. I love the cross legged sitting -- it is comfortable. I like when I did the downward facing dog move, because it tightened up my arms and that's a good thing. I also enjoyed the quiet moment we had when I had to think about something good happening in my life. For me, I liked when I did the cobra move. Emma is excellent! She gave everybody good feedback while doing the yoga. I tried doing all the moves. It wasn't great, but I had fun.

When I was in yoga class, I learned that I did better when I had to do the different moves over again. This yoga was good for me because I don't exercise that much. I do a lot of walking. It is good for my legs. So when we did the leg stretch, it felt good, but I feel a little sore (today) because I loosened up my muscles. I would love to take yoga class again. I will be ready with wearing the proper clothes.


(Ed note: Tiffany was a warrior, despite doing yoga in jeans.)
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March 17, 2010 - Edible English Visitors

Samantha Sylvestor

Wow! I haven’t caught you up on the Edible English life in a while. So for now this is what we have been doing for the past couple of weeks. Rovilky, Shannon and I interviewed a woman named Hillary-Cohen Freeman. She is a photographer and an Anusara yoga teacher, but she also is this wonderful philosopher. She had such great words of wisdom for all of us and something that she repeatedly said was that everything was a process. She was absolutely correct because nothing that any of us is going to do will come easily. All of us aren’t born with natural abilities to do anything. It all takes practice, practice and some more practice.
This past Wednesday, Dave Bergeland came in to teach the class about multimedia. Unfortunately, I was sick so I wasn’t able to attend. I did find out though that he is a video producer.

In class we have been listening to our audio from the Anna Quindlen and Hillary- Cohen Freeman interviews on Audacity. Since I have never worked with anything having to do with multimedia, I find that everything that we do is extremely educational. Audacity is this really neat program in which you import an audio track and then edit it to your liking. After importing and editing your tracks, you will have your own story based on another person’s story.

I like the fact that you can go get one track that is about 2 minutes and thirty seconds long and cut it down to about 15 seconds of what you think is important and what you want everybody to hear. Having only worked with Audacity for a couple of days now I do find that it can be frustrating sometimes. You have to be so detailed to every inch of the sound bite and if you delete just a little bit too much it could get a little bit annoying to go back and fix it. But in the end, being able to use the Edirols and programs like Audacity has giving me a whole new prospective on what multimedia jobs are like and I give the people who do it a lot of credit because it definitely take patience and work.
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