In the beginning....

A new earth. I wish it was that easy - wouldn't it be wonderful if acquiring a new earth, was as easy as getting a new sofa, or a new car. Sadly, in many respects I feel so many have turned their backs on this wonderful place we call home. When did we stop trusting the earth to provide us with the best that life could offer? - in every aspect, but for the purpose of this blog, particularly when it comes to the goodness we require on a daily basis in the form of sustenance and nutrition. We ask God every day to "give us our daily bread", and yet, I have no doubt that God often wonders why we have failed to see that he already has.

How true are the words of Mahatma Gandhi when he says - "To forget to dig the earth, and to tend the soil, is to forget ourselves". Beautiful.....

I have always been in awe of nature and the miracles we see and experience on a daily basis. I'm passionately green, but as everyone does, I often feel overwhelmed by the reality of HOW MUCH there is to do. Living in a country like South Africa however, has made me realise that just as we tackle problems like extreme poverty, a long and winding road, is best approached with that good old saying that "inch by inch, and elephant's a synch", and that as long as you're moving in the right direction, one step at a time is good enough. A start is all you need. Being environmentally conscious and aware, is a mindset and a lifestyle change that doesn't happen overnight. I made my start 2 years ago, with the following:

- recycling kitchen refuse into our wonderful compost heap, which provides us with free food for our garden, in the form of rich, dark, nourishing organic material.

- recycling and reusing paperwaste etc.and glass jars (glass jars are the ONLY way to go when it comes to keeping things REALLY fresh in the grocery cupboard - for me at least).

- acquiring my very precious "feathered friends" who have done a wonderful job of rehabilitating the soil in what was at the time, a very neglected vegetable garden, and providing us with fresh eggs, righ in Omega, with beautiful bright orange yolks, the colour of the sun.

It is now 2 years later, and I am more inspired than ever, to continue and perservere on a journey that to me is in a sense an "awakening", to the wonderful way that mother nature can take care of us if we let her, by trusting the natural process of growing food. This will serve as a diary as I stumble and learn along the way (just as I did with our chickens), in order to take this passion to the next level.....