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Written by Melissa B on 2025-01-09 at 20:55

Today's #OptOut #SpendingStrike action is pretty obvious - growing some of your own food. It can be as token as in this pic of curry leaves and basil on our windowsill, and some would say that really is pointless.

I don't agree.

One pot in a sunny indoor spot can be the first step in acquiring skills, as well as a recognition of just how hard it is to grow a meaningful percentage of your own food.

It can also be a promise to yourself that you will do more when you can - get involved in a community garden, have an allotment, set up vegie beds in your own garden when you have one.

I think I'm sounding a bit preachy here, so that'll do...

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Written by Kate Bowles on 2025-01-09 at 22:56

@MelissaBenyon @lindawoodrow

This is such a good perspective. For years I just grew herbs, I tried many things that didn’t work, I couldn’t manage small crops when they did show up, things went to seed, and I kept thinking: what is the point? But all along, and still, I was learning to grow edible and useful things, and eventually (finally) learning soil management as the ground of it all. Start where you are, keep going.

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Written by Da_Gut on 2025-01-09 at 23:37

@MelissaBenyon Remember the numerous balcony gardens started at the first covid wave? Most never amounted to anything - abandoned before they produced anything.

I occasionally wonder how many gardeners got their start from that though?

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Written by PostcardsFromParadise on 2025-01-10 at 01:40

@Da_Gut @MelissaBenyon

Last Xmas, I included a packet of flower seeds + packet of vegie seeds in the Xmas cards I sent. Next Xmas, it'll be herb seeds. As a kid, a friend who worked in an hardware store, gave us packets of expired seeds. You never know what will inspire/facilitate someone to begin gardening or to start gardening again. And when times are tough (fires, floods, disease, financial stress, poor health), a pot or two of flowers, herbs, vegies or greenery can be very beneficial.

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Written by justmichelle on 2025-01-09 at 23:57

@MelissaBenyon Buying herbs from the market can be expensive. If you can even find them. I am confident that my curry leaf plant is the only source of curry leaves in at least a 50 mile radius.

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