Feeding oneself – life’s hard school

Gardening. One of life’s oddities. So many love it. Others find it bemusing.

Sounds a little like social media.

We moved to acreage 18 months ago, as a lifestyle choice. Part of the new journey on our paradise plot is that gardening of all sorts and sizes is very much a part of our daily lives.

In the last 8 months this has become a bigger part of our health changes, as I took on making food – yep a real hunter gatherer.

I had to explain to my kids that there were always vegetarian hunter gatherers (simply because while I can eat it I can’t kill it).

I grew up in NZ with an avid gardening family. My parents managed and grew huge amounts of vegetables in a small suburban plot and some of it must have rubbed off. I have developed our garden more and more and have found that coming back from my digital world and being able to get ‘dirty’ in nature makes a difference.

Thus i have decided to add a new channel to my blog, which will / might / could / probably will be crap – talking about my journey as a gardener. Maybe it will parlay into some analogy for Web / Business ideas – I normally find a way to merge these things.

I have found that for all the thoughts & theories I have, have read, I’ve found things in nature are not what they seem. Every day I am amazed, humbled and thrilled by the progress, and having a penchant for cooking love to bring in my own produce and cook it.

Jamie Oliver I am not.

Magic gardener neither.

But ireckon I love growing and feeding my family naturally. In turbulent times, the basics matter.

This week managing tomatoes in an acidic environment and stopping the rot.

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