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A day of being near plants. First stop, the community garden for produce swap day, where I took peppermint cuttings and swapped for a cute little posey (posy?) in an old Vegemite jar. Also took two figs and some silverbeet, the latter of which I will add to the pea soup I'm making tomorrow.

I got to chat to a friend and meet some new people, and we tentatively discussed meeting up again socially soon (outside of the scheduled garden catch-ups).

Then dropped Dad home via Bunnings, where he bought some pots and other odds and ends, and I bought two punnets of English spinach seedlings and one of bok choy.

So this afternoon has been pulling up all the weeds (I mean, not ALL the weeds, of course – I have to leave some for another day or I'd be bored, right? Right) and planting out the seedlings in pots. Ideally I'd have them in raised beds but that's not possible just yet. We'll see what I can salvage/create as the year progresses. I figure if I can keep up the nutrients to them in these small pots they're going to be OK

It's a colourful posy of flowers in a tiny glass jar, sitting on a faux wood tabletop (my work desk). Behind the posy are some other pots and a terrarium with various houseplants in them
I didn't mention this in the post but my lilly pilly is going so well this year and it has a heap of berries on it. I've already collected a few to grow some saplings from. Here you can see the afternoon sun shining through the leaves – they're dark green, waxy looking leaves – and small bunches of dark pink berries. You can eat them; they taste slightly sweet and are the size of a grape but they have an unusual texture – crunchy kind of like an apple but the flesh is nowhere near as dense. There's signs that the birds have been eating them, which I'm thrilled about.
A collection of medium sized plastic pots of different colours, filled with soil and small seedlings. I've put them in the front yard for now because with our recent torrential rain/days of sunshine/more rain, the back garden is beyond weedy. Plus the dogs go in the back which makes it a high risk environment for small plants.
#gardening#gardeningAU#GrowYourOwn
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(TLDR: Thoughts on trauma with a relevant open question at the end.)

I wanted to take a moment and talk about trauma responses and how we, as people, try to get our needs met in a state of trauma.

What happens when we try to create areas that are 1 ) not trauma inducing and 2 ) are trauma informed while still experiencing trauma?

Trauma, in general:

When we're in a traumatic situation, we learn a lot of maladaptive responses. By that I mean we learn things that help us push through and/or survive the situation, but that damage healthy relationships. This is one of the earlier things that people in trauma recovery learn: "Let go of what no longer serves you."

Examples of things like this: it is common an abusive relationship to be told to Document Everything. Paper trails, possible camera recordings, etc. to keep yourself safe. BUT! When you transition from "unsafe" to "safe", these same behaviors are typically really invasive to your new partner, even if they understand why you're doing what you're doing.

Multiple spaces:

One aspect of trauma recovery focuses on what happens when the traumatic event ends. You've left your abuser, you've started to having savings after a life of poverty, etc. The skills and processing that happens here is different from enduring the trauma while it is still happening.

I think about this a lot, and heavily, at Nivenly :nivenly: (and it's projects, like Hachyderm :hachyderm: ) and others. Because the world is currently very trauma inducing and it is very difficult to ask people to unlearn patterns that hurt them, when they've been reinforced that those are the only patterns that are successful.

I do have more things I'd like to say, but in the now I want to pivot to a public discourse to hear what you have to say.

* How do you recognize when you're in a trauma free, but trauma informed, environment?
* What do you do when you want to participate in, organize/run, or create these environments?
* Or what are any general thoughts you have?

Scope broad: not just online, not just "events" like conferences, just a very open discussion :blobfoxheartcute:

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#Ohio: #PerryVillage #CommunityGarden returning for fifth year

Story by Bill DeBus, March 17, 2025

"Perry Village is preparing for another season of planting at its community garden in Lee Lydic Park.

"Village Councilman Mike Glover provided a couple of updates on the garden during council’s March 13 meeting.

"Village resident Denny Shimko 'graciously volunteered to rototill the garden again this year,' Glover said.

"'He usually does it as early as he can, but definitely by May 1,' said Glover, who also serves as chairman of the village Parks Committee.

"This year, the garden will be divided into 12 plots for individual growers, Glover said. Some of the plots are 20 feet by 20 feet, and others measure 10 feet by 20 feet, he noted.

"In 2024, Perry Village decided to make eight 20-by-20-foot plots available in the garden. All of those tracts were claimed by gardeners, and three people had to be turned away, Glover said during a 2024 council meeting.

"By giving people the option to choose 20-by-20 or 10-by-20 plots, additional spaces were created in the garden to accommodate more growers, Glover said at a council meeting in January.

"This is the fifth year of the community garden at Lee Lydic Park, 3954 Call Road.

"In 2021, Perry Village decided to develop the garden on the site of a sand volleyball court that received little use."

Read more:
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#BuildingCommunity #CommunityGardens #FoodSecurity #SolarPunkSunday #PerryVillageOhio

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