What do you do to be involved in the community?

I was taking part in trash pickup for around six months at the local landfill and surrounding grounds.

Between all the locals bringing in their trash and the big semi trucks hauling it away you get a lot of waste that gets scattered or blown away.

So what I was doing was going around with a trash can slung over my back and one of those grabber-poles and gutting all the small bits strewn across the landscape.

It was an endless process, there was always more trash than could be humanly picked up. I was happy if I could get a hill or ditch clear each day. The next day though it would likely be covered in trash again.

It’s surprising how many households put recyclable and compostable materials in with their trash.

I grew up in a fairly “green” town in the Pacific North West and so planet friendly living is engraved in who I am and how I live my life.

We make sure anything and everything that can be composted goes in a bin and that bin gets regularly emptied into a bucket.

The buckets will either get dumped in the compost pile with grass clippings or they’ll get buried in the garden beds directly.

Depending on weather and the propensity of bugs, we usually get good yields on our crops. Our growing zone is 5b-8b here in NC.

We have Tangerine and Lemon trees grown from seed, a peach I bought as a sapling, and three bamboo groves.

It’s all been a work of love and often curiosity. Just this morning I noticed the seeds in a cut apple had partially sprouted.

I planted them.

Maybe we’ll have a new addition to the garden next year?

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That’s it for today. Sorry, I got a bit off track with the garden.

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