Twelve times this year I will be posting a decision our family has made to lower our environmental mumbling and our make environmental footprint smaller.
The overall idea is here.
Step one is here.
For our family we will spend about a month (as a guide) thinking and talking about our next decision.
Then post about it.
Then, in about a months time we will post the next one and review the previous one.
Come join us - choose what each step will be for you.
Inspire and be inspired...
So, STEP TWO
Our family will plant new seeds and seedlings in the vegie patch at least once each month and eat from the garden at every opportunity.
This one came to me as I sat weeding in the patch and looked at the rows of leeks going to seed.
It seemed amazing. We had loved and nurtured them - watching them grow and swell to become lovely fat leeks, and then, despite the fact that my now five year old boy's favourite meal is leek and potato soup - so much his favourite meal that he has requested it for his fourth birthday meal last year and his fifth birthday meal this year and still the leeks went to seed.
The garden has been a work in progress and still has much work to be done (not to mention moving it about 500 meters closer to the house!) but I am getting my rhythm now.
I am determined to make the most of the fact that
1. the food with the lowest miles is food that I grow
2. the freshest food our family can eat is the food that I grow
3. there is amazing mental health benefits from visiting the patch every day and tending to it
4. I am teaching my children all manner of good things by growing and eating with them
and on and on...
So, we have planted more in the patch each of the last two months.
I go to a local market at Stirling on the fourth Sunday of each month where there are these top chicks sell beautiful organic seedlings that are worth every penny - let alone their advice and super loveliness.
I do plant some seeds and want to plant more, but going to the market each month keeps me on track when other things in life get all hurly burly.
I visit the patch each day when I collect the eggs and am loving watching the ratio of home grown to not home grown in our meals slowly swinging around to my way of thinking.
What are you going to do for step two?
Do you want to join me?
Big or small.
Give up paper napkins? Give up loo paper?
Start up yogurt making. Start up bread making.
Give up paper napkins? Give up loo paper?
Start up yogurt making. Start up bread making.
What might you do to change your world and inspire others...
Post about it and then link back here...
Please spread the word about this 12 step program.
Talking about these baby steps and inspiring others is the way the world changes.
Come join us...
Tell us what your step two is and see how it makes your heart beat, your smile more readily available and your local community and your environment glow and buzz.
STEP TWO FRIENDS - Have a look and be inspired
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Thanks for the reminder to link. I had on my list to recommit to soap making. I let it slide with the new little one. Unfortunately I tried to rush it. Not a good idea. It turned out alright, thankfully. And I just love so many things about making my own soap. It's so satisfying.
ReplyDeleteLooking good...need to talk to the family and see what we'll be doing this month. Thanks for inspiring us...
ReplyDeletelovely and so similar to our step two...we never plant from seed and always go the punnet so soon we are starting way back at the beginning xoxo We will post ours soon. Just building up a collection of toilet rolls for our little seeds to grow ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks for the inspiring posts and reminder to continually have this discussion. Love it xoxox
oh....p.s - how is the non supermarket shopping going?
ReplyDeleteLove it. We love eating most of our fruit and veg from our garden, it is just so satisfying and fresh. Thanks for the kick start, I have been wanting to make my own bread for a while now. Also, Thanks for the book recommendation, it sounds like a goodie. We are in Mt Barker, you? Jade x
ReplyDeletegood one! i wonder how the supermarket one is going? xx
ReplyDeleteGreat step. My step this month is not buying (almost) anything. I won't be not buying for the entire year, but I'm certain i'll be spending wiser.
ReplyDeleteah I needed this garden inspiration because while we grow a lot of fruit and vege over summer, I am a fair weather gardener and at this time of the year I all but give up! What are you planting for winter?
ReplyDeleteI have been planting broccoli, cabbage, cauli, leeks, onions and soon garlic. Garlic is the easiest! Just get cloves of organic garlic and plant pointy side up - wait and wait forever and then - hey - new bulb of garlic! so rewarding.
ReplyDeleteYou won't regret your decision :) We steadily eat from our garden, though don't plant out enough. Always food but more variety would be grand.
ReplyDeleteNice to see you at kootoyoo :)
Partly inspired by your step one, we've given up supermarkets for Lent, and I've sent the family's market shoppers off with a sack of cloth bags and containers to reduce the packaging we bring home. Continuing beyond Lent is always a bit of a struggle for us. We'll see this time.
ReplyDeleteThe cheeky chooks jumped the fence and got my first autumn plantings, so I'm not sure what we'll be eating from the garden in the next few months, but I've tried again with the broccoli, onions, leeks, snowpeas, celery and salad stuff so here's hoping.
I LOVE growing my own... we used to have a competition to see how many of the things in a meal had been grown in the garden! Ooohh.... I haven't decided what my next step is... I might try yoghurt making as I am fed up of purchasing expensive, branded, sugar laden youghurts for the kids.... will pop over to your yoghurt posts to get some inspiration!
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