My Fair Share

I stuck my arm in the compost pile that I made yesterday to see if it was going to do what it is meant to do, and it burned my fingers.
So, I turned it, watered it, and walked away smiling.

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Compost is meant to get hot – I understand that. Being in the sun is probably a good thing then for a compost heap.
But, today I built one under the biggest tree that we have. Just unloaded the manure from the trailer and mixed it with a year’s worth of leaves from under [...]

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I cannot believe that it has been more than 2 years since I got some horse manure.
And so it was that yesterday I took my trailer to the place of a friend who is caring for someone else’s three horses.

There we were, two blokes collecting poo, just yabbering in the summer sun.  At one stage, [...]

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I was asked today about being carbon neutral and whether it is better to spend the money on alleviating poverty.
I didn’t really know how to respond, but it did get me thinking about why carbon is not something that I am terribly concerned about.
Now, I don’t know about human-induced, carbon caused, climate change.  Some people [...]

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I have never really had the patience for composting. Turning, building, watering, etc all seems a bit too planned for the way I tend to be … which is to say that I am probably just a bit disorganised, dithery and downright scatterbrained.
But, I did try earlier this year. I built the thing [...]

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“If we put the skin back then the worms can eat them and the dirt will stay damp for the plant”
“And, we ate the fruit and put the skin back on the garden, and the core we gave to the chookies [chickens]”
“And then we got the eggs from the chookies..”
“And we put their shells back [...]

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It was about 2 months ago that I woke up with a Eureka moment. Since then, me and a mate have been beavering away trialling the idea and getting it workable.
Well, that moment is nigh.
It works.
It is happening.
And I am so excited.
Community Connections is the name that we will give it, and I will [...]

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Continuing with the bread theme, we had a friend come over yesterday so I decided to make a loaf of coconut bread. I like making coconut bread, although it is always a dilemma for me whether to you use coconut milk or coconut pulp. We had neither so my wife picked up some [...]

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Continuing with the theme of reflection this week, I have revisited some of my own posts of the past couple of years.
In the second half of last year, I noted that my score on the Happy Planet Index was a mere 41.4, versus the average of 31, and my previous year’s score of 81.
Tonight, wondering [...]

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It happened. Although only a few days ago I lamented the loss of certain aspects of my daily existence, today I made coconut bread with the kids – and a bigger mess of the kitchen.
The sweet smell still fills the air.

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