Reconnecting with nature and community in the inner city.
Having read a little about guerrilla gardening I was inspired to put some prime north facing land to use. After all it is just there at our doorstep, it seems like such a waste! I’ve started small, due to urgings from Dylan, but I have much bigger plans for our humble nature strip!
Pumpkins, zucchini and beans have been cheekily creeping their way across every available surface vertical and horizontal. There is a sweet little road side Organic fruit and veg stall in Deans Marsh and for only a few dollars we got a whole bunch of lettuce seedlings and lovely reddish potatoes. We used a new chicken feed that wasn’t ground up, when the chicken tractor moved on the bed began to bristle with sunflowers, corn and wheat. The sunflowers I transplanted elsewhere, the others have been frustratingly prolific and even the chooks have stopped being interested in their stringy leaves.
Summer holidays by the beach. Lying on my stomach in the grass reading and feeling it prickling my legs reminds me of when I was little. Everything seems so much bigger when you look up at the sky from all the way down there.
A lovely picnic in the Otways National Park with my parents. The air is so damp and sweet there and the cracking of the fire and birdsong is the only distraction. Dylan always relishes the opportunity to be a proper woodsman and pruned branches off the path much to my parents’ amusement.