Principle 3: OBTAIN A YIELD
‘You can’t work on an empty stomach’
To celebrate the Lunar New Year, our week 5 community-based learning opportunity presented itself in the form of a Momo making workshop on the snowiest day of the year. Students from the Bittersweet program joined Ben Hunsdorfer and students from the Practice of Organic Farm program in the SAL building on the TESC Organic Farm. The workshop was lead by faculty Ben Hunsdorfer and Hirsh Diamantalong with their wives, Jungmoo (sp?), and Jenny (respectively), with special guest Juliette. After a brief PowerPoint presentation detailing the history of Losar (or the Lunar New Year), we were given instructions on how to prepare the momo dumplings and Jenny, along with the other fascilitators, walked around the room to provide visual examples of how to fold each momo effectively. Once everyone had watched the demonstration, we executed the steps ourselves. This was a prefect example of permaculture principle one, observe and interact. In the end, we all got to taste the fruits of our labor and had a feast of steamed and pan-fried momos!
