We've missed a week or two doing a curation, but that's the nature of being in the Hive Garden. Sometimes it's having a rest, sometimes it's pulling weeds, sometimes it's planting. We can only do what we can do with our sore backs, our busy lives, our lack of resources.
When we can, we put out these curation posts to help support our community members who put effort in to engage, write quality posts, and share inspiring stories.
We reblog, upvote, and even tip the ones we really love.
This week it's @hettyrown with her post about trying to keep up with dropping chestnuts - an arduous and seemingly never ending task which makes her wish she lived somewhere else, lamenting too that she's not getting any younger. I wonder how many of us downsize for that reason, or do we keep going into our 80's, picking chestnuts? Check her post here - she's also the happy recipient of a Hive tip!
We also loved these memories of gardening as a child from @koto-art. They're a regular in the Hive Garden and it's always nice to read their sweet posts about community, family, and gardening. Check out the post here. The lesson they learnt about tending to a garden stayed with them:
I still remember an important lesson that included our homeroom teacher. Our class had borrowed a garden spot from one of our classmate’s grandfathers, who owned a farm. He was very kind and helpful, sharing his farming knowledge with us. We planted potatoes after an interesting lecture from him, where he taught us very well. However, we didn’t take care of the weeds during summer break.When we returned to the garden in early autumn, our classmate’s grandfather gathered us and gave us a serious lecture. It left a strong impression on me because our teacher, a highly respected person, apologized to him sincerely. It surprised me to see my teacher bowing and apologizing that much. What touched me even more was the classmate’s grandfather’s comment. He told us that we hadn’t returned to the garden during the summer, and no one had tended to it. He had to do the weeding and watering for our garden sometimes. He taught us that “some vegetables can't grow by themselves without our care. You all thought that after planting the potatoes or seeds, they would just grow on their own. That’s wrong and irresponsible. Respecting nature and taking care of it are our responsibilities. You can’t just eat curry without doing anything.”
And isn't this heart shaped potato just perfect?
Over down under to Australia to @blingit, whose urban agriculture garden has really gone crazy. They even have to contend with snakes. It's amazing how this garden has been transformed from a very suburban Queensland garden with a pool, to a garden that provides food for the family and supports insects. Well done, @blingit. Watch out for snakes!
Also very much appreciated these sentiments from @samstonehill - it's the kind of thing we see many Hive folk get involved in, especially post COVID, and we hope that even though the pandemic seems a distant memory, we keep up our garden efforts because, as Sam says, we can't depend on the current systems to sustain us:
The most direct route to putting healthy food on the table is of course to grow it yourself and the original definition of ‘going to work’ actually means growing your own food & medicine and storing it for future use. It is the oldest and most important profession known to humanity (around since long before the industrial revolution ruined natural food systems) but has been largely forgotten thanks to the forced age of technocracy which wants us all dependent on the same system.
If you aren't following Sam and his family in their incredible garden in France, here's this week's post, which may be a good starting point.
Speaking of resilience and independence through food and medicinal plant medicines, this post reminds us that many communities across the world have been doing it for generations. I appreciated this response to the weekly challenge about scents in the garden - some of our most evocative scents can be the ones that remind us of childhood medicinal plants like lemon balm and oregano.
Congratulations to @belkisa758, @hetty-rowan and @koto-art that all won a tip this week.
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Happy Gardening!
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Gardening this week has all been about rocks and gravel! We've been making new paths. But I also went round and fertilised all the fruit trees, and shouted at rabbits who ate all the flowers off a new grevillea. Gutted! I loved Hetty's post about the chestnuts - we don't tend to get chestnut trees but I definitely identify with the labourious garden clean up and getting older and thinking maybe it's time to move to a place with a more manageable garden!
Hello, my old friend.
Your verbal disagreement with the rabbits reminds me I forgot to get some equipment for my ongoing squirrel conflict!
I know I've been a stranger lately, but I've been trying to integrate myself back into Hive(garden) society. These look like some really great posts!
Whenever I try to make one lately I go out to get some fresh pictures but then that devolves into me doing much needed work on all the things I'm seeing!
We have missed you!
Do not worry.
I still have been recording and capturing everything, just not broadcasting.
Welcome back from pulling the weeds 😀
Ha, yes, there's always weeding to do!
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