If you refuse to dance and sing with others; or mock or suppress dancing and singing with others in the groups you belong to – will Spring come, and the Earth be Green again? Our ancestors going back hundreds of…
In July I spent $55 on bellbird food. For that I got three single-flowered camellias – red Crimson King, pink Sugar and Spice, and white Setsugekka. Crimon King and Sugar and Spice have been planted near a white single camellia…
We live in a world of ‘just-in-time’ food, with supermarkets and other food stores being replenished every day with food that comes from hundreds and even thousands of kilometres away. But that is not how nature produces food, of course.…
After the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake a friend of mine drove down from Picton to evacuate some elderly friends from Redcliffs. He stopped at a Blenheim supermarket to stock up on food supplies to take to the stricken city. Unfortunately…
December was a great month for berries in the Eco-Garden – we had raspberries, strawberries, blackcurrants, redcurrants and gooseberries. Alas, we did not have as many of the first four as usual, and nor did they ripen as early as…
