My husband has a ride on mower. He mows lawns for our neighbours because he loves to help. At times we are given things in appreciation for his efforts. Sometimes they fill up his fuel. Sometimes it is something cooked or grown by others. Nice to be able to help one another in an informal way. Maybe as times get harder it will need to be more formal.
They tried that at my local park years ago having a swap day of homegrown vegetables. As I said in the past I never had anything to swap so I never went. When I was walking the dog the other day the guy down the road had a sign on his fence, said reach over and help yourself to some of the vegetables. Cheers Graham
The biggest thing I think that inspired people to grow a garden in your neighbourhood was starting a veggie garden in your front yard. Best thing I ever did at my old place, sharing produce with the neighbours. Once I started gardens popped up all down the street it gave people reasons to knock on my door and talk gardening we would swap seeds talk about a lot of things and built friendships.
Id like a conversation about the cost/commercialisation of gardening these days. The tin surrounds/raised beds are $100 or more each, the bags of soil, fertiliser tools etc Plus the amount of plastic being used by the gardening industry
My mum lives in an inner suburb of brisbane. She has a neighbour who picked a huge amount of mulberries from a tree in a local park. He took them all to my mum along with sugar and jars and asked her to make mulberry jam. Then he delivered jars of jam to the neighbours around the mulberry tree park. He also often buys or grows seedlings and plants what he needs and takes mum some seedlings he wont need. Im listening to this video as i wash poop of my neighbours chickens eggs theyve given me. Community is great. We dont utilise it enough.
Wow! your garden looks so lush Marty - please send me some rain I'm trying to work one handed (another six weeks of plaster to go) and it's a pain in the proverbial. Everything you say makes sense but people are often too shy (reserved) to do something like this or even participate even if you are full of enthusiasm yourself. Human nature eh? Happy Christmas (Advent) to you and yours and to all your wonderful YT family XXX
Im considering starting up a seed library out the front with free plants that I have multiples of. I am on the look out for a doored doll house to upcycle into one.
A swap & trade is best, & have a who ever set up there own tables in the street & swap. My parents use to do it when I was young. We had chickens,so we gave eggs & swap for 2 litres of fresh milk, not treated. Or eggs for a home made pavalova or passionfruit sponge cake.Yum!
@ oh I’ve recently learned that barter, in the form of 1 donkey = 13 chickens ect never actually existed. People just gave each other stuff and gave back when the other person needed something. So, they did each other favours all the time. Which is a great system and was what you described pretty much.
One of our neighbors has a garden. We compare experiences, successes, failures, "wild kingdom, like dear, coyotes, bees, moles and voles. What works etc. I was hoping, by sharing with others would inspire them. We are in our 70's. Time will tell. Love reading comments here on this subject. You are inspiring.
Thank you or getting me back in the garden. I have 4 raised beds one has corn and cucumbers in it, the corn is cucumbers trellis, onions in another bed, in another beans. the last one has carrots beetroot and potatoes. I have several pots with tomatoes in. 2 pots with potatoes growing in them, and a big old amazon box growing potatoes in it.
I can not make a post, but I can reply. I showed a neighbor pictures of my little garden, she said " we should all do this." I have been trying for 2 years to get neighbors involved with growing fruit's and veggies, I am looking forward to seeing what they grow.
I think it takes a little bit of effort to grow stuff but once you work with what youve got it becomes easier when you know what works. Start off small work your way up . The polystyrene boxes are good to grow in you can reuse most food stores have them will happily give them to you. Great community talk Marty and for me this is the furure for us I wish these politicians would give us majority community decisions.
I emailed my council, asking for help to build a community garden, fruit trees etc. I have a bare block of council land at the end of my street. They were very open to the idea, unfortunately I'm moving house now, but I was super surprised at how quickly they got back to me and how keen they were to help.
I think it is a wonderful idea to have a BBQ collective. It invites relationship more than a quick meet up. We set up a swap meet in the Dandenongs where people trade without money but I found that few grew like we do. Lots of lemons and mint 😂 I connected with another UA-camr there and admin the group for a while. The preserves can be a but sketchy at times. But in saying that, I recon if you build slowly a core group that are equally generous and helpful you could build something wonderful. Like anything, it is important to set the tone of a group at the beginning and carefully invited new people as it grows. Another permaculture group here has a throw down swap where everyone brings something and puts it on the table. You take what you need but be quick. They can be more enthusiastic than your chickens! I took a heap of Pineberries and Banana plants one day and they were swooped up in literally seconds! I was busy answering questions on how to grow them and when I finished there wasn’t much left I could grab to take myself! 😅 We also have food cupboards here that collect food from supermarkets, bakeries and stores and give it away. The premise is give what you can and take what you need. People do take advantage of the system unfortunately but it also helps a lot of people. It also saves tons of food unnecessarily going to landfill. A local one here started at the front of someone’s yard and grew so much they now have the cupboard at a community centre and free food market every Saturday. Your heart is in the right place. It is easy to be wary of being taken advantage of but generosity is something that is learned and if no one demonstrates it - no one learns. Enjoyed your heart share Marty 👌 Kayleen
Great stuff man, it all starts with that first step, even if it’s just 2 or 3 neighbours, as long as the whole neighbourhood knows about that 1 or 2 crazy veggie/ chook neighbours they know where to go when the supermarkets close down.❤ but it ends with deleting comments.
@@martysgardenUA-cam delete comments all the time if it supports what they don’t like. The good reason to start communities for real not online communities.
A good thing to do would be to start a Mullumbimby Valley Seed Co-Op and get local growers to start heirloom seed gardens and sell these local grown quality heirloom seeds online through a single brand
@martysgarden Seed savers is different and I local what I mean is that Mullum growers could have a front co-op and sell around Australia and raise extra cash to pay bills
Communities grow. Those who have the passion for it will plant the seeds and nurture it and grow it. Others will be grafted in as they see its goodness. There will be those who try to ride wave for the wrong reasons ( pride, greed, power) but they will crash in time. The fruit will show over time. Communities come in all different shapes and sizes, and should be relevant for the area that it's in.❤
Problem is Marty, everyone wants to be the leader in communities. This has been the problem in the world that lead us here in the first place. Government is a form of a community, promises to do good by the people, then slowly corruption takes over. Communities suck, sorry Marty.
I don’t want to be negative about your beautiful idea but a lot of people want to “gain” from it, rather than “contribute”. Look at the EU. A lot of weak countries joined to gain and the stronger countries are forced to help and ruined. UK exited. We should learn from this. I rather try in a small scale ie within my own family and my very next door neighbours.
@@martysgarden Thanks for your reply, Marty. Furthermore, once I offered some spare vegetable and herb plants in my front garden to share with the people in my neighbourhood. Unfortunately that attracted the wrong people and soon after my house was broken into. Sadly good intentions are taken advantage of. Long ago I lived in a remote bush where everyone knows everyone else. Perhaps it works in the place like there. Cheers!
My husband has a ride on mower. He mows lawns for our neighbours because he loves to help. At times we are given things in appreciation for his efforts. Sometimes they fill up his fuel. Sometimes it is something cooked or grown by others. Nice to be able to help one another in an informal way. Maybe as times get harder it will need to be more formal.
Thanks for sharing this story Jane, I believe it needs to head more in that direction over time
What a gem of a man Jane! ❤
They tried that at my local park years ago having a swap day of homegrown vegetables. As I said in the past I never had anything to swap so I never went. When I was walking the dog the other day the guy down the road had a sign on his fence, said reach over and help yourself to some of the vegetables. Cheers Graham
What an awesome bloke, free food!
Your not in WA by any chance ? I do the same and it recruits new green thumbs andha sgrownour street co-op
@@philcleaver2703 no, on the Gold Coast
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The biggest thing I think that inspired people to grow a garden in your neighbourhood was starting a veggie garden in your front yard. Best thing I ever did at my old place, sharing produce with the neighbours. Once I started gardens popped up all down the street it gave people reasons to knock on my door and talk gardening we would swap seeds talk about a lot of things and built friendships.
We did that, hasn't made much different in our street, but It's a great place to talk with neighbours and give way a bit of home grow veg
Id like a conversation about the cost/commercialisation of gardening these days. The tin surrounds/raised beds are $100 or more each, the bags of soil, fertiliser tools etc
Plus the amount of plastic being used by the gardening industry
My mum lives in an inner suburb of brisbane. She has a neighbour who picked a huge amount of mulberries from a tree in a local park. He took them all to my mum along with sugar and jars and asked her to make mulberry jam. Then he delivered jars of jam to the neighbours around the mulberry tree park. He also often buys or grows seedlings and plants what he needs and takes mum some seedlings he wont need. Im listening to this video as i wash poop of my neighbours chickens eggs theyve given me. Community is great. We dont utilise it enough.
Thanks so much for sharing this story with us all Jessie
Wow! your garden looks so lush Marty - please send me some rain
I'm trying to work one handed (another six weeks of plaster to go) and it's a pain in the proverbial.
Everything you say makes sense but people are often too shy (reserved) to do something like this or even participate even if you are full of enthusiasm yourself. Human nature eh?
Happy Christmas (Advent) to you and yours and to all your wonderful YT family XXX
Merry Chrissy my dear friend
Im considering starting up a seed library out the front with free plants that I have multiples of. I am on the look out for a doored doll house to upcycle into one.
Good idea, seeds swap too maybe for fun
Love that idea!
A swap & trade is best, & have a who ever set up there own tables in the street & swap. My parents use to do it when I was young. We had chickens,so we gave eggs & swap for 2 litres of fresh milk, not treated. Or eggs for a home made pavalova or passionfruit sponge cake.Yum!
Yer making me hungry.
Swap and trad meets, such an awesome concept, luv it!
Good haha
Basically how it was done in ancient times. People gave things to each other. Very good system.
Cheers, the old barter you mean?
@ oh I’ve recently learned that barter, in the form of 1 donkey = 13 chickens ect never actually existed. People just gave each other stuff and gave back when the other person needed something. So, they did each other favours all the time. Which is a great system and was what you described pretty much.
One of our neighbors has a garden. We compare experiences, successes, failures, "wild kingdom, like dear, coyotes, bees, moles and voles. What works etc. I was hoping, by sharing with others would inspire them. We are in our 70's. Time will tell. Love reading comments here on this subject. You are inspiring.
Your garden is looking amazing Marty.
Thanks Deb!
Thank you or getting me back in the garden. I have 4 raised beds one has corn and cucumbers in it, the corn is cucumbers trellis, onions in another bed, in another beans. the last one has carrots beetroot and potatoes. I have several pots with tomatoes in. 2 pots with potatoes growing in them, and a big old amazon box growing potatoes in it.
That’s a great combination for your garden, sounds really productive!
@@martysgarden I am with the poster great to see you back in the garden and not becoming a MAGA
Do you have any ideas on how a community can develop change with the cost of living issue we are face?
I can not make a post, but I can reply. I showed a neighbor pictures of my little garden, she said " we should all do this." I have been trying for 2 years to get neighbors involved with growing fruit's and veggies, I am looking forward to seeing what they grow.
I think it takes a little bit of effort to grow stuff but once you work with what youve got it becomes easier when you know what works. Start off small work your way up .
The polystyrene boxes are good to grow in you can reuse most food stores have them will happily give them to you. Great community talk Marty and for me this is the furure for us I wish these politicians would give us majority community decisions.
Totally!
Goodonya Marty !
Cheers
Little wet in Sydney to 😊
Man it's getting beyond a joke now
I emailed my council, asking for help to build a community garden, fruit trees etc. I have a bare block of council land at the end of my street.
They were very open to the idea, unfortunately I'm moving house now, but I was super surprised at how quickly they got back to me and how keen they were to help.
Good news, maybe they will still g through with it
I think it is a wonderful idea to have a BBQ collective. It invites relationship more than a quick meet up.
We set up a swap meet in the Dandenongs where people trade without money but I found that few grew like we do. Lots of lemons and mint 😂 I connected with another UA-camr there and admin the group for a while. The preserves can be a but sketchy at times. But in saying that, I recon if you build slowly a core group that are equally generous and helpful you could build something wonderful.
Like anything, it is important to set the tone of a group at the beginning and carefully invited new people as it grows. Another permaculture group here has a throw down swap where everyone brings something and puts it on the table. You take what you need but be quick. They can be more enthusiastic than your chickens! I took a heap of Pineberries and Banana plants one day and they were swooped up in literally seconds! I was busy answering questions on how to grow them and when I finished there wasn’t much left I could grab to take myself! 😅
We also have food cupboards here that collect food from supermarkets, bakeries and stores and give it away. The premise is give what you can and take what you need. People do take advantage of the system unfortunately but it also helps a lot of people. It also saves tons of food unnecessarily going to landfill. A local one here started at the front of someone’s yard and grew so much they now have the cupboard at a community centre and free food market every Saturday. Your heart is in the right place. It is easy to be wary of being taken advantage of but generosity is something that is learned and if no one demonstrates it - no one learns. Enjoyed your heart share Marty 👌 Kayleen
I really like the concept of swap meets, one of the best I have heard so far. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts and insights here Kayleen
@ you are alway welcome Marty.
Great stuff man, it all starts with that first step, even if it’s just 2 or 3 neighbours, as long as the whole neighbourhood knows about that 1 or 2 crazy veggie/ chook neighbours they know where to go when the supermarkets close down.❤ but it ends with deleting comments.
Yo dood, only needs a couple of people to be honest. Thanks for sharing, hopefully no comments get deleted!
@@martysgardenUA-cam delete comments all the time if it supports what they don’t like. The good reason to start communities for real not online communities.
Mustard chocko pickles, goes great on a silverside sandwich.
Nice, thanks for sharing here this idea
A good thing to do would be to start a Mullumbimby Valley Seed Co-Op and get local growers to start heirloom seed gardens and sell these local grown quality heirloom seeds online through a single brand
Actually seeds savers company started in this area I believe
@martysgarden Seed savers is different and I local what I mean is that Mullum growers could have a front co-op and sell around Australia and raise extra cash to pay bills
Communities grow. Those who have the passion for it will plant the seeds and nurture it and grow it. Others will be grafted in as they see its goodness. There will be those who try to ride wave for the wrong reasons ( pride, greed, power) but they will crash in time. The fruit will show over time.
Communities come in all different shapes and sizes, and should be relevant for the area that it's in.❤
Thanks for sharing this, I really appreciate it
There hens ...💪🤠
No they’re not, they’re Marty’s he’s had em for a couple of years😂
That's my gals
Neighbours give me honey in return for eggs. We also share produce, recipes and preserves.
Nice one
Quail egg against edge of cage
Yes, I saw it later, got it now yeh!
Problem is Marty, everyone wants to be the leader in communities. This has been the problem in the world that lead us here in the first place. Government is a form of a community, promises to do good by the people, then slowly corruption takes over. Communities suck, sorry Marty.
Thanks for sharing your view here, I am sure many would like to debate that topic and see where it leads. Pity it's a bit hard to do here.
Not in my opinion as churchill said when the going gets tough keep going we only get out what we put in
I don’t want to be negative about your beautiful idea but a lot of people want to “gain” from it, rather than “contribute”. Look at the EU. A lot of weak countries joined to gain and the stronger countries are forced to help and ruined. UK exited. We should learn from this. I rather try in a small scale ie within my own family and my very next door neighbours.
Yes, your the second person to say that. it's possible I could be wrong!
@@martysgarden Not in my experience here in Australia the opposite is true. maybe shift suburbs :)
@@martysgarden Thanks for your reply, Marty. Furthermore, once I offered some spare vegetable and herb plants in my front garden to share with the people in my neighbourhood. Unfortunately that attracted the wrong people and soon after my house was broken into. Sadly good intentions are taken advantage of. Long ago I lived in a remote bush where everyone knows everyone else. Perhaps it works in the place like there. Cheers!