Day 6: Education Day!!!

Today we visited the Arthur Sherwood center, where we met CBF employees Tiffany and Mark.  We were shown the treehouse Clivus system.  It takes 3 years for the waste to completely convert to compost, and then it is spread over the surrounding area for trees and shrubs.  The compost didn't smell bad at, all, and the bathroom system used zero water.
Mark took us out on his boat named Marguerite.  She was named after a donor who gifted a large sum of money.  Before we got to the Chesapeake, the boat's alarm went off because of low fuel pressure. Mark fixed it up quickly, and we drove out to the bay.

Then we went to the Holly Beach Farm and played with Otter, the coolest dog ever. We had a really nice picnic lunch at the farm while playing catch with Otter. After lunch, we went net fishing after putting on waders.  We also used trowels to pick up more fish.  But David Tana was the only one who actually caught anything, a striped killifish.
After going back to Arthur Sherwood, Mark and Tiffany took us up Meredith creek to look at the wetlands.  We went canoeing up the creek, then returned to Merrill for a meet and greet with CBF staff. The CBF staff was nice enough to treat us to some really nice finger food and a killer punch which we all enjoyed very much. After that we had some delicious Ledo's pizza and played rose, thorn and bud with David Tana.




Matt and Radha