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February 11, 2018February 19, 2018 The Green Garden

Summer: tents, beaches and long lost memories.

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On breastfeeding in public in the UK

January 13, 2016February 10, 2018 The Green Garden

Visiting art galleries with four year olds

February 12, 2013March 28, 2018 The Green Garden

Making our own Beads of Courage

August 20, 2017February 19, 2018 The Green Garden

Five years on: the space between

August 16, 2017February 19, 2018 The Green Garden

Five years on: the day I learnt too much.

August 15, 2017February 19, 2018 The Green Garden

Five years on: Why now?

August 14, 2017February 19, 2018 The Green Garden

Family update: Here we are.

August 13, 2017February 10, 2018 The Green Garden

Five years on: Kintsugi.

August 14, 2016 The Green Garden

Golden.

June 24, 2016February 10, 2018 The Green Garden

Autumn: Anchor Me

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A night of absolute, soul filling and stretching inspiration with the incredible Dr Jane Goodall. #rewindthefuture #janegoodall
Leafy Mcleaf face (official name).
An insect hotel now graces our garden, an unexpected last task and treat from our fabulous French wwoofers, Benjamin and Sarah, who’ve been with us the last two weeks. They’re nature guides when they are back in Brittany and Normandy, and brought heaps of ontological and entomological knowledge and passion with them. And they cooked crepes! And chestnut soup! A wonderful experience for the whole family (and the garden) and I hope they enjoy their further travels in this country immensely and see EVERY bird on their very long list. True nature lovers. Go well!
Ten harvest baskets from summer. So lovely to look at on a windy, wintry day.
By late autumn, the tall asparagus ferns have grown brown and we chop them down. They’ve done their work, collecting energy from the sun all summer and autumn and now the asparagus crown stops and sleeps all winter. It’s the hibernating bear of the vegetable garden. I help to make his rest over winter easy. I cut and chop the fronds to make a warm and ferny blanket. This weekend, I’ll collect some seaweed and add some manure too, tuck him in and turn my back. And in Spring, like some form of wizard, he’ll magically pop his head back out of the by then bare soil, hopefully with more asparagus cubs than ever before. If you’ve got the room, asparagus has got the magic. See you in Springtime, asparagus. My furry, ferny friend.
“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what difference you want to make.” - Jane Goodall. Zero waste learnings. I can’t find a solution for everything. But I can find a solution for most things. Carrying containers and cloth bags at the supermarket is a badge of great honour. Quieten the internal questions. Ignore the side eyes. Joining the local Co-operative was a game changer. In that bubble, there’s no side eye, plenty of people with jars and a general and soothing feeling of yesness. We now have really pretty shelves. And we carry chattering boxes of glass jars and cloth bags everywhere. We are still buying things in single use plastic. Things we can’t find a zero-waste alternatives include sushi paper, rice paper, toilet paper, rice noodles, tofu and kewpie mayonnaise. And I love them all.

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