Garden growing musings from experienced grower Jen:

Here I talk watering and how I deal with pests organically and ethically. I've been removing butterfly eggs and transplanting them to a donor plant. You can just brush them off as well.

Jen

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I feel so blessed to be living next door to these man made woods and park where I can retreat into nature when ever I need to quieten my mind.

I get to see these stunning foxes. The park provides glorious fruit for me to forage (cherries, plums, apples and blackberries). It had just started to rain but not enough. I'm praying for rain as the plants are struggling. I'm a sun seeker, I'm happiest when it's really hot but since growing and connecting more with nature I'll be happier when we get a downpour.

Sonia

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We can make the system become irrelevant by not spending our money / using our resources within it I'm sure we all avoid the big corporations and use independent businesses as much as we can.

We should also try and use awakened independent businesses because they are more likely to spend their money in the same way. How to find them? You can start with these resources. Do you have any more?

Awake Trade Community UK
https://t.me/+V3N4Z2pXzL43MTZk

Awakened pages
http://www.awakenedpages.co.uk

https://t.me/awakenedpages

Freedom directory
https://www.freedom-directory.co.uk/

Keep It In The Community
https://t.me/keepitinthecommunity


Sonia, Jen and team

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http://t.me/TheGrowingProject

#growyourownfood #exitthesystem #keepcashalive #shoplocally #independentbusinesses

At our first community growing space (a garden behind a 29 flat council block) we have buy in from one of the residents and offers of support from one other. We didn't want to do too much work until we managed to engage with more residents. I recently went back to do more door knocking and found some of the plants we planted had been taken out.

It's probably a destructive act & possibly someone from the block. Although disheartening I see this as a challenge. To be that destructive usually means there's a lot of pain in a person. It could be a test to see if we're fly by nights or will stay the course. Whatever, we are not deterred.

Happily I've met another resident who wants to get involved and will be key to making this work.

I think some community growing projects fail because they focus more on the plants than the people. There's some really lovely & interesting people who live there and I'm excited about getting to know them.

Sonia

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What you've been up to: Off grid living

Here's another amazing share from Bloody Pirate. Here he shows the homeschool project he gave his daughter. How to build a compost loo.

"the hole in the ground had been dug some time ago, it's about five feet deep...the shed isn't finished yet as we ran out of time today, and we are starting to run short of materials now...the enormous pile we brought with us seems to have dwindled considerably after building the porch, the stage and the shed...so we are patching stuff together to get a useable loo.🪜🪛🔨🪚🛠

Our daughter is 15 and has been homeschooled for several years...she did primary school...she is really getting a good skill set now...she put some shelves into the cupboards in her caravan today, no help, a little advice and did a lovely job of them 👍"

Brilliant!

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Sonia, Jen and team

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