Nothing spoils nature’s splendour
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… like garbage. 
Green Up Day in Vermont is a day when the people of the Land take to the roadsides, woods, and riversides to pick up all the crap left behind — or thrown from cars — by careless losers. (No photo available.)
People of all ages out with their special green bags (and latex gloves) stumble upon points of interest as a reward. Today I saw I giant marshmallow, a tricked out tree, and a [Northern?] Magnolia. I learned that beef from grass-fed cows contains the recommended ratio of omega 6s to omega 3s (3:1), and that cows fed hay cut from the flood zone after Hurricane Irene had guts blackened by snails in the grass. Sooper ick
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Posted on May 4, 2013, in ecology, holidays, humor, nature, personal, rural and tagged G, garbage, grass-fed cows, green up day, Green Up Day 2013, Green Up Day in Vermont, hurricane irene. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
uppervalleygirl 
I’m quite surprised to learn that there are trash throwers in Vermont. The highlight of our village cleanup day was when a group of Boy Scouts stumbled across a skeleton. Turned out to be a deer, but for a brief moment, I felt like I was in an episode of CSI.
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Last year I found a bone sticking out both ends of a broken jar neck–same idea. What was the story? Did the jar cause the death? What kind of animal was it? Could I do this for a living?
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