Our class is invited to work over at the Domes today (or Baggin's End, as its formal name goes). It's very nice, loads of plants and odd dome houses. Got introduced to the concept of permaculture, which I'm fascinated by, as I was by the concept behind the diversity conservation discussion last night for biology. There was a wild kitty there (very friendly, purred when I petted it) that shortly after our arrival caught a mouse and ate it, tail and all, leaving only the liver. Claudia (student there) tried to coax it to eat the liver by telling the cat that the liver is good for you (and also, if the kitty ate it there'd be less to clean up) but I don't believe the kitty bought the argument.
It's co-op housing. Very eco friendly. Two of the students there gave us a tour and a segment of it went something rather like this:
Tatiyana (student there): So here's the other chicken coop...and these are more gardens...those are the squash.
Dimitri: Is that an escaped chicken?
Tatiyana: Oh yes, that little one always gets out somehow. [Goes after the rebel chicken.]
So yes, we had free-range chicken during our class. And a free range kitty which, apparently, got along with the chickens.
The place had a feel of 70s utopia experiment and it does not feel like it was on campus, at all.
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