The Rot Riders

These three folks took a class, grassroots environmentalism where the whole class is focused around a big project that is environmentally conscious. Their idea was to start a compost pickup route in which people would not have to travel further then their porch to take care of compost, they built a huge trailer and use that to bike around to pick up compost every week. One really interesting point is the fact that their class is over now, they are no longer doing it for the grade but to keep providing the service to the 30+ people on their route. What I think really makes the photo is the enthusiasm, the energy of wearing capes and running around picking up compost during their free time on a ridiculously large bike trailer, I couldn't ask for better subject matter.

Pumpkin problems

For this story we went out to the old pumpkin patch on account of the large amount of rain the past growing season causing troubles with crops. In this case, it was the baby pumpkins plants that produced next to nothing this year. When we were driving through a field of grass and all of a sudden Bob told me that here we were. I didn't even realize the very tiny patches of mostly unmowed grass that were hiding the very small pumpkin plants. I went down and snapped a photo of the first one I saw with him in the background. The lighting was perfect, around 6pm and it had a nice golden characteristic. Also the pumpkin plant in the foreground with Bob looking forlornly at it. Fortunately for the patch most of their revenue is generated from events hosted, so even though Bob managed to find other ways around the bad crop, I'm sure some other farmers were not so fortunate.