2018 'Thank You' Bee

Thank you to the broad beans that fed our bellies and enriched our soils with nitrogen.

Thank you trees that so generously shared their gifts.

Thank you friends from near and far who volunteered their time and intentions.

Thank you to the flowers and countless pollinators.

Thank you to the people who donated seedlings for prosperity and sovereignty.

Thank you to those who came and cheered us from the sidelines.

Thank you sharp minds, sharp tools.

Thank you for your energy and enthusiasm.

Thank you for sharing your cabbage stems.

Thank you to our bodies that laboured our love.

Thank you to our love that laboured our bodies.

Thank you Mother Earth for receiving, enabling and sharing. We honour your food and seasonality and literally owe our lives to your gifts. We love you.

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Happy solstice season one and all!

The community gardeners are once again going to participate in this year's Daylesford NYE parade. If you'd like to join us, please stay tuned for more deets.

Here's us at last year's event:

Splendid October Albert Street session

A perfect morning for work in an exploding garden… ongoing thinning / weeding / planting, and distributing the mature and worm-rich mulch from the composting bays...

October gardeners and visitors: Cameron, Tim, Tracy, Ian, Jason with Sage, Wren and Nia, Lindy with Ginger, Violet and Alice, Alexis, Tia and Jeremy with Jasper and Arden, Mara, Christine, Jeff with Zuri, Phoenix, Atlas and Hartly, Maureen, Stephen, Dora, Patrick and Meg with Woody, Shelley with James and Skylar, Alison…

Random pics of morning's activities...

Compost bays at the start of the day

In the jungle: Cam, Tim, Tracy, Lindy

Building up a sweat as the day heats up

Mara, Maureen, Tracy

Jeff, Atlas, Dora

Sage and Jason

Dora, Tracy, Maureen, Stephen

Gardener Tim

Alexis

Patrick, Lindy

Alice, Ginger, Violet

Jeremy (foreground), Cam, Patrick, Alexis

Cam, Alexis

Compost bays at the end of the day

Calendula collection gang: Dora, Maureen, Tia, Tracey

A bag of sunshine.

NEXT BEE: SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14

Convivial June bee

The winter weather favoured us with a warm day for the June bee… and gardeners and visitors included: Lena, Patrick with Woody, Tony, Ian, Anne Tamblyn and Keira Lockyer from U3A (who are gathering material on DCFG for a chapter in an upcoming community publication), Tia and Jeremy with Jasper and Arden, first-timer Leila, Sarah with tiny Ruby, Mara, Christian, Diana, Meg and Alison.

In the main it was a day of maintenance, some bed preparation and planting, lots of weeding, thinning, removing exhausted plants such as tomatoes (after gathering the green ones), mowing, collecting stakes, compost turning, mixing and adding. While there is always lots of social warming, today's bee seemed exceptionally companionable, with conversations, smiles and laughter aplenty. The morning's pics. . .

Patrick, Lena, Tony

Patrick, Lena

Lena, Arden, Patrick, Woody, Anne, Kiera

Arden (far left), Anne, Kiera, Woody, Jasper... and others in the background

Tia, Leila... (welcome to Daylesford!)

Keira (back), Tony, Jeremy (mandolin discussion)

Anne, Patrick

Ruby, Sarah, Lena, Anne, Patrick

Arden, Woody, Jasper

Ruby, Sarah, Tia, Leila

Mara, Tia, Lena, Leila, Anne, Kiera, Tony

Woody inspects the firm green tomatoes

Patrick, Mara, Tony & Tia bending, Christian

Tony, Christian, Leila

Sarah, Woody (in shadow), Ruby, Arden, Mara... in the distance Diana, Jeremy, Alison

Compost-ready!

Jeremy, Patrick (mixing compost and soccer)

Patrick, Jasper, Jeremy

Diana, Jasper, Jeremy, Meg, Alison, Mara, Tony

Meg, Alison (happy days!)

Best foot forward... boot of the day (Tony)

Next bee: Saturday 11 July