Great post, Sam! We share your vision here at our family home in the U.S. suburbs. We're the weird ones currently in our neighborhood, but I'd love to see all these lawns turned to food production.
So happy to have you here! Great things are always started by the weird ones ;). Hopefully soon your neighbors start to see the value in what you're doing. I see we have a shared interest in the liturgical calendar as it relates to agrarian living. I'm trying to wrap my head around how I can better incorporate this into my lived experiences here in the Southern Hemisphere. Maybe I'll eventually come up with something to offer there but right now I'm pretty stumped!
Such a wise and thoughtful post Sam, that helps us clarify what we would like to do in our own circumstances without denigrating those who can 'homestead'. I have a photo of my hubby and I grinning from ear to ear as we displayed the 12 jars of home made relish we had produced when in lockdown, grown from our vegetable patch in a suburb. (In Australia, by the way, we say woop woop, so pretty close to you) .It was sheer joy and our granddaughter at the time helped. It was hers and Papa's garden. Those human skills also reignite more time with others and the possibility of hospitality and community, slowly but surely. Bravo to you for this post!
It is such a satisfying life! I totally understand your joy and accomplishment with those 12 jars. It is really hard in these modern times to undertake activities that produce real things, things that we can touch and taste and smell. And such a joy when we can. I like your point about these activities fostering connection between people just by the nature of doing them. Thanks for checking out my work and for your kind and interesting thoughts :)
Great post, Sam! We share your vision here at our family home in the U.S. suburbs. We're the weird ones currently in our neighborhood, but I'd love to see all these lawns turned to food production.
So happy to have you here! Great things are always started by the weird ones ;). Hopefully soon your neighbors start to see the value in what you're doing. I see we have a shared interest in the liturgical calendar as it relates to agrarian living. I'm trying to wrap my head around how I can better incorporate this into my lived experiences here in the Southern Hemisphere. Maybe I'll eventually come up with something to offer there but right now I'm pretty stumped!
There is definitely a need for someone to translate the liturgical calendar into the climate & agrarian year of the Southern Hemisphere!
Such a wise and thoughtful post Sam, that helps us clarify what we would like to do in our own circumstances without denigrating those who can 'homestead'. I have a photo of my hubby and I grinning from ear to ear as we displayed the 12 jars of home made relish we had produced when in lockdown, grown from our vegetable patch in a suburb. (In Australia, by the way, we say woop woop, so pretty close to you) .It was sheer joy and our granddaughter at the time helped. It was hers and Papa's garden. Those human skills also reignite more time with others and the possibility of hospitality and community, slowly but surely. Bravo to you for this post!
It is such a satisfying life! I totally understand your joy and accomplishment with those 12 jars. It is really hard in these modern times to undertake activities that produce real things, things that we can touch and taste and smell. And such a joy when we can. I like your point about these activities fostering connection between people just by the nature of doing them. Thanks for checking out my work and for your kind and interesting thoughts :)