Over the last year something strange has happened - I have evolved into a green mamma! It all started with a new year's resolution to grow vegetables and to harvest as many fruits as I could from the hedges on the farm. I found that so many of my friends have also had this resolve to make a difference.
By May, I had my raised growing beds and the children and I started growing vegetables - on the whole very successfully for the first year. We ate our own salad until the end of November - fresh from the garden every day. The children loved it especially with a chilli dressing. In July and August, I perfected my vegetable blanching/freezing technique and we filled the freezer with cabbage, runner beans, broccoli and herbs. In September, we added to the freezer with blackberries, damsons and cooked apple. Now in December we are still eating swedes (rutabagas) and hopefully will eat our own Brussels sprouts on Christmas Day. Next year we plan to grow more of our own fruit and vegetables - great experience!
We have a compost bin! Now we are composting all our green waste from the house and we are recycling as much as we can of other materials - a revelation in how we can change our impact on the environment.
I have also been studying global water security for the last year in a professional capacity and it has completely changed my outlook on how we can develop effective environmental policy making, something I plan to write about a lot in the next New Year.
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