Reconnecting with nature and community in the inner city.
We were away a bit in January and the pumpkin and zucchini vines took the opportunity to take over everything, although we’re not complaining with zucchini chips and beautiful beans in our tums. We were proud to fill our first basket of produce from our very own garden. It probably didn’t need to be all piled into the same basket, but it just felt much more satisfying walking around the garden piling it up higher and higher!
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.
I have been dabbling into book binding and would love to make some notebooks to sell on etsy. I want them to be as eco friendly as I can so today I attempted to make my own paper from bits and bobs that would otherwise go into the recycling bin. Some bits of dried grass got in there when I scooped some spilled paper back in, and it actually looked quite nice, I might try some experimenting.
I promise if my books ever reach your shelves the pages will be a lot more uniform than these gentlemen hanging on the line. But a little dash of individuality makes life more interesting right?