Last Monday, we all went to Thommo’s Community Garden (https://communitygarden.org.au/listing/thommos-community-garden/) for volunteering. The garden is a 45-minute-walk from the campus and grows lots of kinds of organic fruits and vegetables for Foodbank. All of us enjoy gardening there, for example, making chicken beds, picking weeds except poppies, harvesting mulberries and loquats and so on. Also, the volunteers made us some snacks, and enjoy eating them. There were scones with special jam and cream (not so sweet but taste gentle), carrot cakes, and broad beans guacamole. I enjoyed it so much and I wanted to visit again, so I asked them. They welcomed me, so I decided to visit there every Monday until I return to Japan.
So, this Monday, I visited there and did some work. Firstly, I did pick eggs that the hens laid this morning. It was the first time for me to pick eggs on hay, and it looks precious, so I felt a little bit guilty. I am going to thank hens every time I eat eggs. Secondly, I picked overgrown celery and feed it to hens. I was surprised that hens eat not only grains but also vegetables. I could see how hungry the hens are that they pecked them so quickly, and it was funny a little. And then, I picked weeds again and again. There were plenty of fields that need to pick weeds. Also, they plant poppies for gathering bees for bearing fruit plants, like peas, cucumbers, beans, grapes and so on. Grown poppies have characteristic leaves and buds, so it is easy to recognise, however, small ones which have just shot out sprouts from seeds were similar to weeds, so it was difficult. I paid attention so much, but perhaps I picked some little poppies. Sorry, poppies!
Next week, I am going to pick broad beans for Foodbank with Thommo’s garden official volunteers. I am looking forward to doing the work and I hope I will work well. See you next time!
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