Day 3 | Breakfast
Nothing exciting, just a bowl of cereal and milk. I usually skip breakfast on weekday mornings because I tend to run late.
Approximate total cost: $0.73
I woke up with a list of things to do, many of them involving paying bills, and I’ve already burned through those. The last financial task was taking my snailmail checks to the post office, and it turned out the Oberlin Farmers’ Market across the street was still open. I snooped around since I hadn’t ever visited before—I know, I’m a terrible Obie—and came across a stand that had a pair of young tomato plants for $2 each.
I’ve been meaning to purchase a tomato plant, and since neither of these was bearing fruit yet—read, didn’t count against the $100—I decided to pick one up. The choice was between Nyagous and Amish Paste, both heirloom varieties. I’m not planning to make any tomato sauce, but I would definitely enjoy slices of a good meaty heirloom tomato, so I took a chance on the Nyagous. From what I’m reading, that was a good choice. Now I just have to figure out where to plant it, because I don’t think it can spend its whole life in my little apartment.
Once I’m a little more confident about spending a few years in one place, I’m definitely planning to keep a vegetable garden including things like tomatoes, basil and other herbs, perhaps some daylilies, and goosefoot, beans, squash, and other native crops—maybe even some corn if I have a decent-sized space. If planned and planted well, it could look pretty good and provide some real, fresh variety for the table.
