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
http://instagram.com/TheGrowingProjectUK
t.me/TheGrowingProject
#growyourownfood #exitthesystem #keepcashalive #shoplocally #independentbusinesses
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
http://instagram.com/TheGrowingProjectUK
t.me/TheGrowingProject
#growyourownfood #exitthesystem #keepcashalive #shoplocally #independentbusinesses
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What you've been up to:
We're really lucky to have people contributing in the comments who are further along the journey of exiting the system than we are, that we can learn from. One such person is Bloody Pirate who in this video takes us around his garden.
"we were quite late getting started as we only moved here two months ago, but better late than never, as they say...I plant one spud every week so we will have a staggered crop....that's why they are all different sizes."
Bloody Pirate has been off grid permanently for the past six years and on and off for most of the last twenty.
What a stunning place to wake up to each morning. Are you off grid or thinking of going off grid?
Sonia, Jen and team
http://instagram.com/TheGrowingProjectUK
http://t.me/TheGrowingProject
#growyourownfood #exitthesystem #keepcashalive #shoplocally #independentbusinesses
We're really lucky to have people contributing in the comments who are further along the journey of exiting the system than we are, that we can learn from. One such person is Bloody Pirate who in this video takes us around his garden.
"we were quite late getting started as we only moved here two months ago, but better late than never, as they say...I plant one spud every week so we will have a staggered crop....that's why they are all different sizes."
Bloody Pirate has been off grid permanently for the past six years and on and off for most of the last twenty.
What a stunning place to wake up to each morning. Are you off grid or thinking of going off grid?
Sonia, Jen and team
http://instagram.com/TheGrowingProjectUK
http://t.me/TheGrowingProject
#growyourownfood #exitthesystem #keepcashalive #shoplocally #independentbusinesses
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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
http://instagram.com/TheGrowingProjectUK
http://t.me/TheGrowingProject
#growyourownfood #exitthesystem #keepcashalive #shoplocally #independentbusinesses
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
http://instagram.com/TheGrowingProjectUK
http://t.me/TheGrowingProject
#growyourownfood #exitthesystem #keepcashalive #shoplocally #independentbusinesses
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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
http://instagram.com/TheGrowingProjectUK
t.me/TheGrowingProject
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
http://instagram.com/TheGrowingProjectUK
t.me/TheGrowingProject
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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!
Follow Bloody Pirate Here https://t.me/BloodyPiratepresents
Sonia, Jen and team
http://instagram.com/TheGrowingProjectUK
t.me/TheGrowingProject
#growyourownfood #exitthesystem #keepcashalive
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!
Follow Bloody Pirate Here https://t.me/BloodyPiratepresents
Sonia, Jen and team
http://instagram.com/TheGrowingProjectUK
t.me/TheGrowingProject
#growyourownfood #exitthesystem #keepcashalive
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What we've been up to: Garden growing musings from experienced grower Jen
I purposely let my radishes go to seed. This first year in a new garden is about establishing beds, working out where the sunlight hits all through the day and collecting seeds!
These Radish seed pods are edible! They taste of very mild radish crossed with a pea! And you get loads of them off just one "gone to seed" radish! Win-Win!! I'll take some off for pickling, take some to use fresh and leave the rest to dry on the plant to collect the seeds for next year and onwards!
Jen
http://instagram.com/TheGrowingProjectUK
http://t.me/TheGrowingProject
#growyourownfood #exitthesystem #keepcashalive #shoplocally #independentbusinesses
I purposely let my radishes go to seed. This first year in a new garden is about establishing beds, working out where the sunlight hits all through the day and collecting seeds!
These Radish seed pods are edible! They taste of very mild radish crossed with a pea! And you get loads of them off just one "gone to seed" radish! Win-Win!! I'll take some off for pickling, take some to use fresh and leave the rest to dry on the plant to collect the seeds for next year and onwards!
Jen
http://instagram.com/TheGrowingProjectUK
http://t.me/TheGrowingProject
#growyourownfood #exitthesystem #keepcashalive #shoplocally #independentbusinesses
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