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The Dance of Spring

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…

September 16, 2019
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Strictly for the birds (and bees)? Winter-flowering camellias

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…

August 12, 2019
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Emergency gardening 2 – the practice

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.…

July 22, 2019
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Emergency Gardening 1 – the context

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…

June 12, 2019
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