Growing Shopping Lessons
Happy Winter Solstice Eve! Hope you have a warm and wonderful weekend planned. We are off to Pocket City Farms for their solstice celebrations. Looking forward to it.
Let’s Grow Shopping started off as a kind of metaphor for helping people divest from the pretty sad state of affairs western money orientated culture has arrived at. Taking back personal responsibility for your own food is a big statement in so many ways, not least your health. However, this whole time I’ve still been in the supermarket at least once a week and I’m a regular at the Organic Market in Hornsby every Thursday. I don’t exactly grow all our veggie shopping. Time to have a red hot go at turning that around. If you want to tag along for the ride, you are welcome. Real food is free if you want it to be, and so is this.
I’ve spent the last couple of weeks preparing the ground for a new garden bed. See the photos… Our block is on multiple levels and half of it was a bare rock outcrop. See this video for before shots if you are interested.
The fruit trees are going quite successfully (I’ve planted over 130 of them) but week in week out veggies are another matter. We are all glut and famine. I’ve been growing everything everywhere in food forest style. This is no bad thing as it means there is usually something the wildlife haven’t found and it is our insurance policy. I scatter all old and surplus seed through the forest and accept what nature wants to germinate.
We had to import soil to create this new bed – 9 tonnes of it, and it isn’t the best, clay, sand and some cow poo. So going forward I’ll be explaining what I’m doing to improve that, right from the ground up. Lets see where we’re at next winter solstice.
I know enough to be dangerous, but I don’t know everything by any means, suggestions and questions are most welcome. There will be poetry, philosophy, garden design, planting & propagating tips, success, failure and everything in between.
