Monthly herbal classes starting Thursday
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Equality & Nixburg News
Jennifer Williamson
The Equality Volunteer Fire Department Board Appreciation Day was a great success. It was a busy day, and even though it was to be a free event, folks were so supportive that they continued to donate.
And I heard the rummage sale sold out of all the new items that were in stock. Thank you, community, for your great support to our volunteer fire department.
Sequel Campbell of Three Moon Harvest will be holding herbal classes at Jenny’s General every third Thursday of the months of March through July. The series is titled “Thirsty Thursdays: Quinch your thirst for basic herbal knowledge.”
The first session, “Cold Care Tea, Tonic, & Tincture,” will be held March 19, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. There is a fee of $45 for the class plus $5 for materials, and you will go home with materials.
I am concluding that unless something changes, I will not be retiring to Equality. Since I was in my young 30s, I have told my family when I retire I want to live in a community where I can walk or ride my 3-wheel bike to do my shopping. I can walk to downtown Equality, but the only shopping available is from Jenny’s General, or the highly processed convenience junk food at the gas station.
There is an organic farm, but that is 7 miles, and I am not riding my bicycle down Highway 9 to get to County Road 14! Equality has no grocery store, no bakery, no butcher, not even a farm stand.
Not for the lack of trying. Since I purchased the property for Jenny’s General store I have tried to start a small farmers market, encourage farm stands, get folks interested in a coop grocery store and that there is a professor at Auburn University who helps communities start their own coop grocery.
I am told those are all great ideas and I should do them. But I am but one person, still employed full-time, with no budget for capital investment, and quite honestly, I can’t do it all.
So, I will do what I must do, find a community that offers what I desire in retirement, such as Eclectic, which means eventually selling our farm we love so much. But I am not going to spend my senior years driving 30 minutes or more to another town or city to do my shopping. I wish it was different.
Community activities that are available that you can support:
- The Equality quilting group which meets every Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Jenny’s General Store. We do more than quilt; some attendees embroider, crochet and other needle arts.
- Kendrick Memorial Baptist Church’s yard sale, held most Saturdays starting at 8 a.m. Address is 5152 Ala. Hwy. 9.
- Elaine Rutledge of Nixburg hosts Rummikub at the Alexander City Senior Center in the Sportsplex every first and third Friday starting at 10 a.m.
- Neighborhood Watch Meeting is Thursday, March 26, starting at 6:30 p.m.
I depend upon my readers to share with me what is happening within your organizations, churches, neighborhoods, groups, or family to share in next week’s column. Please contact me; leave a voice message or text 256-531-6460 or email at coosacafe@gmail.com.
