Today I stand before
you in awe! I am amazed, overwhelmed, utterly grateful, physically tired! And why?
Yesterday I experienced the absolute privilege of having seventeen people and
their children descend upon my vegetable garden armed with spades, forks,
buckets and other manner of garden tool with intent to put their hearts and
backs into doing what ever needed to be done until the sun went down!
You know those moments
when you allow yourself to ponder on exactly how, if you had the
time/resources, you would extend, alter and improve an area of your life? I’ve
had that often, while standing in my vegetable garden. My husband and I have
carefully considered things, done what we could and then left the rest of the
dream for another day.
When our Permaculture
group decided to visit our garden, I thought we could prepare things, adjust
things, and change a little here and there in line with permaculture principals
(which I am only just learning about). I had no idea that we would tick off
every single item on my wish list! Many hands make light work and outside
insight is so invaluable. And it’s fun! Who could fault a Sunday filled with fantastic
company, great food and shared manual labour? This is the stuff real community
living is made of.
Gardening groups are
popping up all over the country and you don’t need to know something
about permaculture to invite some friends around to work together in your
garden. As long as you know that the time will come to work in their gardens
too!
After the group left and the garden grew still and sleepy in the late afternoon light I had a moment to just be, in my new garden which suddenly looks more like a farm, and I realized that the spirit of friendship is magically fertile ground which allows for magical things to grow! The proverbial cherry
on the top came this morning when I checked the planting guide, and read that fertile time for planting starts today!
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