Note: I believe that there should be a new category - one of Building Community!
Become part of your community. Hold a street BBQ / play date in the park.
Get involved with a community garden - grow your own food and help others do that too.
Mine the garbage! When it’s after Halloween we raid the grocery stores for free pumpkins to smash in our garden - and raid the garage put on for more pumpkins and straw bales for the community garden. Typically at the farmers market we’ll haul away a bike-wagon load of compost for the garden - saving it from the garbage.
Share tasks. When it’s pumpkin season we grab pumpkins for others. When we go to the local organic mill we pick up sacks of grains, flour and flakes for friends. Some of them pick up eggs from farms for others. We have CSA’s (Community Shared Agriculture) groups which do this for the people who have signed up for food boxes.
We don’t have a powered lawn mower. The once or twice a year we use one (as opposed to our push mower) we just borrow one from a neighbour. If you’ve got paint or caulking - then offer to fix up the neighbours door or window frames …
We had a co-housing group and one of the best things was shared suppers once a week. Now, ever few weeks, a few families share a pot-luck supper. In the case of the co-housing meetings - those shared meals have resulted in fences being taken down between properties.
We all have neighbours - it’s time to reconnect with them - because thru thick and thin, they will be our neighbours and we can all live more healthfully and lightly by sharing and connecting.
This post was submitted by Eric.
So I’m reading this post, noticing that there are no comments and thinking to myself “I wonder why Eric didn’t comment on this one, it seems right up his alley” Then, of cours I got to the bottom!
So my question is… you keep mentioning “grains, flour and flakes” I understand grains & flour, but what are flakes?!?
Comment by Rebecca — January 27, 2010 @ 11:40 pm