With church bells ringing, the sun quietly sliding behind the
trees, runner beans flowering and pea pods plumping, the hard work of
having an allotment and/or growing your own vegetables was forgotten, as
members of the Transition Chichester Grow Your Own group enjoyed a
picnic on Ann's allotment plot.
Watched over by Ann's scarecrow Alice, the problems of getting lettuce to grow (put the seeds in the fridge overnight was Cathy's suggestion), the realisation that we were all suffering with black fly on our runner beans this year (not to mention the broad beans), and the challenges of keeping going when sometimes it just seems so much easier to buy from the supermarket, were all discussed.
We also heard about Anita's trip and attendance at two transition events and were fascinated about the ancestors' activity; some attendees sat in an 'inner circle' representing the people of today whilst others sat in an outer circle, representing people of 2050; it was interesting to think of the questions we would ask.
An after picnic tour of the plots brought us back to the now and we packed up, enthused and energised ,to water and weed our respective vegetable patches, before re the moon finally took over the lighting of sky.
(Thanks to Ann Emery for this account)
Watched over by Ann's scarecrow Alice, the problems of getting lettuce to grow (put the seeds in the fridge overnight was Cathy's suggestion), the realisation that we were all suffering with black fly on our runner beans this year (not to mention the broad beans), and the challenges of keeping going when sometimes it just seems so much easier to buy from the supermarket, were all discussed.
We also heard about Anita's trip and attendance at two transition events and were fascinated about the ancestors' activity; some attendees sat in an 'inner circle' representing the people of today whilst others sat in an outer circle, representing people of 2050; it was interesting to think of the questions we would ask.
An after picnic tour of the plots brought us back to the now and we packed up, enthused and energised ,to water and weed our respective vegetable patches, before re the moon finally took over the lighting of sky.
(Thanks to Ann Emery for this account)
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