Author: Colleen Butler

Happy World Egg Day!

From Argentina to Vietnam there are celebrations worldwide to celebrate the Egg!

Eggs are an Egg-cellent Source of Nutrition:

12% of your daily protein and contains Vitamin A, B6, B12, Folate, Iron, Phosphorus and Zinc and a Natural source of Vitamin D and at only 75 Calories.

Make sure you keep them in the Fridge though (Eggs age more in one day at room temperature than in one week in the fridge).

Since around 1988 This has been a day to Celebrate Silliness!

For all those wonderful Teachers out there … this Blog Post is for You! It’s a pity that World Teacher’s Day falls on a Saturday this Year!

Happy Birthday Johnny Appleseed! One of most unusual and eccentric frontiersman that ever was! Born John Chapman in the early 1800’s he planted over 100,000 square miles of apple orchards in the United States: Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Virginia.

He anticipated where the Pioneers would settle and planted nurseries in those areas leaving them in the care of neighbours, and returning every year or two to tend to the trees, which would be sold to the settlers.

He was a legend in his own time and reportedly did actually wear a tin pot as a hat! A man at that time that was a barefoot vegetarian who wouldn’t harm animals, hunt, ride a horse, or chop down a tree was eccentric to say the least! Although on account of his land holdings he did die a wealthy man.

Apples don’t “grow true” (the seeds of the apple don’t produce the same variety of apple). Sweet and tasty apples come though grafting not planting seeds. In Johnny’s time the apples were mostly grown for hard cider which was a more delicious and safe alternative to corn liquor. Many of the apples that Mr Appleseed planted were of a sour variety – and great for cider.

So the story goes … a Man in Florida back in 1996 wanted to Honour the World’s Largest Land Animal! … and so became Elephant Appreciation  Day – celebrated every September 22! Who doesn’t love Elephants!

Elephants are very large beloved noble animals that have a gestation period of 2 years. Elephants are self-aware and can even recognize themselves in a mirror!