The Green Garden

Menu Skip to content

Home
About

Instagram

August 3, 2011February 6, 2015 The Green Garden

Happy Birthday Granddad!

appy Birthday Granddad!

I hope today is a lovely day for you, that the mountain is covered in snow and the sun is shining. Sorry we aren’t there to hang out. I can’t wait to see you again, hopefully soon,

Much love, your youngest grandson, Mister Wrigglesworth.

Share this:

Twitter
Facebook

Like this:

Like Loading...

Life in New Zealand

Published by The Green Garden

View all posts by The Green Garden

Post navigation

Previous Fat Albert II

Next Early eighties child

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Enter your comment here...

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Email (required) (Address never made public)

Name (required)

Website

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out / Change )

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out / Change )

Connecting to %s

Notify me of new comments via email.

Search for:

Instagram

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.

Get The Green Garden straight into your inbox!

Join 250 other followers

Watch

Categories

Categories

Blog at WordPress.com.

Post to

Cancel

%d bloggers like this: