What I am doing this month

A journal

just for the record and in case you are in town and would like to join in or do something similar to share what you are up to near yours.

January

Eagle at Wamboin

Walk off the Christmas indulgences, Beach, swim,

back to paid work, set up the first half of my year with family events

Clean one part of the house that’s been annoying me all the previous year

Watch the bark fall off the gum trees in mid summer as their girths also expand.

Walk and Talks (permaculture design vouchers from last year).

Making space in home for boomerang adultlets and planning for a studio for a ‘benevalant landlords’ retreat (retrofit of garage).

Design session with Permaculture Visions with April and PDC students

Beach trip to Berry (and a thousand berry related jokes in the car).

February

Fire season- slow burn this one was a ‘cultural burn’

Already? Book in workshops, set up forward talks

First webinar of the year (missed the other one) – thanks NENA – The wellbeing economy and the film “purpose”

kick up the conditioning program and reestablish personal routines

summer batch of kombucha and kimchi – watching carefully in the heat so as not to miss the windows for fermented goodness

water water water – Last chance for summer plantings and swims.

Workshop with Robin Clayfield and finally getting to Nararra Ecovillage.

Kick off /resprouting (?) for the Oceania hub – design school for regenerating earth.

mentoring with PDC students

March

Mustards and greens

Regen Study group proposal  – Canberra city farm -details in their newsletter – Topic – Bioregioning

Our place – Getting to know you and our bioregion

Community Mapping of the many layers

Why it matters – deepening connections with our place, our country.

Farm tour and design workshop with Southern NSW Harvest Cooperative and local legends who farm.

Personal Retreat – first for about 9 years so it’s time. Although its’ not in a zen monastery in southern japan (kind thoughts Jiho) this time,  it will do.

Exhibition by family at Rusten House Gallery Queanbeyan – amazing 3 generations of talent

Multigenerational living adventure starting…

To be continued, I hope:)