Happy Badger, Epic Bake Sale, Amazing SASHA Trip

On October 3rd, Veg Club met for lunch at the Happy Badger in BG for delicious, veg-friendly food! The atmosphere of the Happy Badger is really unique; glass jars are used for drinks, and there are all sorts of little knick-knacks and interesting decorations (including a functional record-player/juke box). We found a stuffed badger too and we just had to take a picture! After lunch, we ended up roaming around downtown and shopping (a little too impulsively and excitedly...) at Ben Franklin's. It was a really fun afternoon. :)

On October 17th, Veg Club baked together at the Common Good in preparation for today's bake sale. It got a little messy and chaotic, and we had a couple baking mishaps but this just made it more fun! We made so much food: brownies, no bake cookies, chocolate chip cookies, sugar cookie sandwiches, puppy chow, Oreo cupcakes, and cookie dough pretzel bites/sandwiches (an invention by one of our members). The recipes we used (although we halved many of them) can be found here. On October 18th at the bake sale, we actually sold out of all of our items and ended early! Based on our tallies, we made $62! Great job and thank you to everyone who helped out and to everyone who stopped by to taste just how delicious vegan food is! :)
  
(Guest written:) After waking up on an early Sunday morning (October 20th) and trugging along the road for two hours, the Veg Club made it to it's destination to SASHA in Jackson, Michigan. After arriving, and signing a liability waver of course, our crew went to the pastures. Here we were left with the task of cleaning up after the horses, which we didn't mind! But the day could of turned for the worst when one the donkeys pushed it way past us and out of the pasture. Luckily, due to two great members, the donkey was retrieved and put back into the pasture. Thank goodness! So, we continued with our work. After about two hours, and making the pasture more green than brown (LOL), we decided it was time for a break. First came pictures that I (Ciara) had the honor of taking and it went really well. We had alot of fun and decided we wanted to take a tour of the farm before eating our lunch. This resulted in seeing our the animals that the farm had taken in to take care of, from goats, horses, mules, donkeys, cats, sheep, dogs, chickens, emus, birds, and cows! 

Speaking of cows, we had quite the experience with them. I, was butted by one and so was someone else but then we had one poor member be actually thrown to the ground from an unfriendly, injured cow. But she's okay and we were able to laugh about it! Although after seeing the cows so up close, I am a little bit intimidated by them! We had alot of fun with all the animals and then we ate our vegan lunch we had packed while petting Fearless who was a very friendly dog that was just roaming around. I managed to get a picture with him and one of the members. He was such a magestic dog! After eating our lunch, we helped the man running the farm with some walnuts that needed to be disposed of. By then it was close to three and we decided to head back to Bowling Green. But we were really thankful to be able to volunteer (and even hear about a possible internship!) and help all the animals. It was wuite the experience and we hope to be able to do it again soon! :)