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Had a big day planned today and prepared for 1 chicken delivery, 4 gardens, a couple of 2nd visits and a couple of pre-visits. Chicken delivery was postponed as Chloe had to work and the back up, Candace wasn't ready. So I delivered to Carissa first. She wasn't home but said she'd be home soon …
Today I previsited Anna, who is very excited at the prospect of learning more and has made many attempts at growing. In pic 1 you'll see she has made some planter boxes from old pallets, lined with rubbish bags and filled with whatever she can find. She had planted 20+ toms in a tiny space, …
I had a nice easy day of pre-visits after two garden installs were not able to be done. Unfortunately I had purchased the seedlings ready so fingers crossed they will still be OK for next visit. First call was Carissa. She is delightful as well as a tad overly ambitious. After watching something on-line from …
Hi All, A good day today. First visit, which was a chicken pre visit, was postponed till hopefully next Friday. Next visit was to *Mary who has 4 children and is keen to get some growing knowledge to help feed her whanau. She was thrilled at what we were planting which has changed a little. …
Weather on the motorway was terrible with gale force winds and heavy rain and I debated the sense of leaving home. Got soaked doing Phillipa's chicken delivery but the boys were super excited and Hugo especially petted them inside their cage and couldn't wait to cuddle them. He snuggled the second one close and she …
Good day Tuesday starting with delivery of chickens to *Sengxay. A chat revealed they own a Thai restaurant in Papakura and have had a tough time through covid. Family of ten live there, including Mum who is about 60. He was pretty excited and said his sister was especially excited to be getting hens and …
I decided to shout Haare and myself to some nail therapy. Been about 4 years since I did this but she talks about stuff like this all the time and with a wedding for me tomorrow... and she's going to a parent/child christian camp this weekend it was a spur of the moment idea that …
The Love Food Hate Waste second chance kai sessions were held at Court Cres, Panmure at the Tamaki Community Church with a lovely group of 14 participants to most sessions. We started each session with an interesting fact to get us thinking from a waste perspective, acknowledging and learning a better way. Facts included a …
The day started at Sirikit's 'Kai korero'. They did an amazing job with several work stations going making things like fruit pies, hummus, pesto, omelettes, risotto and much more! I spoke about my fertiliser workshop next week. First home visit was Nicola who is super lovely, used lots of reo which was awesome. Second visit …
I collected Haare this am, as our first stop was right around the corner from where she lived. We delivered two chickens to Teresa. She was over the moon excited. Her husband is 80, a retired builder, and built the run from scrap materials found. Chickens will be very happy and safe in here and …
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