tying things up

Well this may be my last blog for while so here is some information just to tie things up.

  
my reference list 

Arendt, H. (1958).  The human condition. Chicago, U.S.A: Chicago University Press.

Bowden, S. (2009).Quiet Gardens: The Roots of Faith? .London, U.K: Pickstock.


Dul, J & Weerdmeester (2008) Ergonomics for beginners a quick reference guide 3rd edition,Boca Raton.

Green,T (1968).Work,Leisure,and the American Schools, New York,U.S.A: Random House.

Mollison, B. (1991). Introduction to permaculture.Tyalgum,N.S.W, Austrailia: Tagari publishing.

 Norfolk, D. (2000). The therapeutic garden. London, U.K: Transworld publishers.

Sunderland, J. (2010). Adaptive living occupation: BT127001 (lecture notes). Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago Polytechnic, Department of Occupational Therapy.

Visser, M. (1992). The rituals of dinner. London, U.K: Viking: The Penguin Group.

I have made four comments on peoples blogs heres their links
http://anniesstage11ot.blogspot.com/2011/09/blog-five-ergonomic-analysis.html#comments

http://stupearce.blogspot.com/2011/10/spirituality-aesthetics.html#comments

http://timsotblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/need-for-cooking.html#comments

http://shilmonipo1.blogspot.com/2011/10/cooking-is-inspirational.html#comments

Or if you want to you can read them here.

David A said... on Tims blog

Howdy Tim ,I'm enjoying reading your blog.Your needs aren't just to fuel your body ,you have a need to create food in the way that satisfies you .I love the bit about colors don't get me started on colors of curry .It seems to me your desire to improve is strong its almost need .Bonne appetite

15 October 2011 04:45

David A said... on Stus blog

Stu your blog is pure style .Only a enriched soul can see the beauty and spirituality of an egg.Do remember it has led to one of the deepest questions in humankind:What came first the chicken or the egg.Also the eggshell gives nutrients back to our mother nature . Excellent stuff cheers Dave

 shilmonis Blog

As one of your customers for your takeaways ,I know you made my family happy .I realy love the passion you have food and it comes come across very clearly on your blog.I have no suggestions how to make it better but you can always put more recipes on especially every stuffed Roti

cheers David

Annies blog

Hi . Hopefully you,re hard work could be of use as gorse in Scotland is a primary tree, because it fixes loads of nitrogen into the soil.Gorse lets other more substantial trees grow through so maybe soon could be a good time to plant something more native.Good luck in your labours

cheers David

15 October 2011 04:30

looks heres a reply!

Thanks Dave, I've quoted you in my next blog.

The need to produce food revisited.

October

• OK here we go again I'm going to carry on looking at my need for the occupation of veggie gardening.
• Aha feeling good today .I actually planted in some snow peas, started up my lettuce and leeks in grow pots.
• Ive also been out to the peninsula and got loads of wonderful,spending an hour in a beautiful spot making sure my kids don't come back covered in sea weed (NOT A PLEASANT THING !!). Sea grass is an amazing, not to smelly seaweed ,it looks aesthetically great. It acts as a great mulch that feed the plants with all those wonderful minerals that seaweed has every time it rains.The most important thing for me at the moment it gives the garden a feeling of being completed.
• I actually weeded  some of the paths around the garden beds and realised that as talked about in some of the tutorials i have been caught in the labour of creating food ,due to the presses of the environmental factors of spring.
• Today i actually was able to relax, enjoy and take advantage of a beautiful peninsula day.

This reflection has actually made me look at what I need from  gardening and have found out it is simply to produce food .All the other factors I have talked about the( labour creating a beautiful the spiritual aspects) are contributing factors .

As Visser 1992 points out "Human Beings work hard to supply themselves withfood: first we have to find it, cultivate it, hunt it,make long term plans to transport and store it, andkeep struggling to secure regular supplies of it".This is something I need to do by gardening storing making marmalade chutneys ,drying fruit e.t.c.

 I have always needed to produce food and wherever I lived have grown something even if its minimal i.e salad in containers .I realised also this has led me even when traveling i have always gardened by schemes like woofing ,finding it the way to connect to a country and similar people and just the act of growing food and the amazing things you can grow in different countries i.e melons ,aubergines ,kumara. Which are all very exciting for someone that has been brought up in the north of England and Scotland where it spuds leeks and cabbages.
A huge need for me is to produce food by the act of labour.I know it has huge links to my self perception ,what i a want from life ,spiritual aspects,. It is an activity  that  i have done for so long it has come part of me ,my belief system is based on it .

References
Visser, M. (1992). The rituals of dinner. London, U.K: Viking, The Penguin Group

 

Why i need my veggie garden

3rd October


I had a bit of a moment when I did my gardening this week .I went to start gardening thinking about all the needs I would be satisfying how I  think i  would be satisfying my need of communion with nature and becoming one with the environment creating a beautiful environment that would enrich my families life.

Instead I  found it another strain on my stress and exhaustment levels .My needs at the moment are very much at the mercy of the seasons , Spring has truly sprung. Ive been put back with gardening with being away for eight weeks in on my north island placement.and feeling stressed every time I look at my poor veggie garden with some rocket and purple sprouting broccoli on their way out  ( I didnt plant any garlic !!).
Its time to plant !!!!.

AMBIENCE
The labour of my activity can be seen as its ambience as it describes the whole of the activity and describes the feeling created by a particular nature of an activity when it is being done for itself. Ambience is described as a feeling or mood associated with a particular place, person or thing' (Sunderland, 2010)
and therefore is bound to the cyclical process of providing and using the vital necessities that will sustain the life process.

"The gathering of nourishment, however, is not only necessary; it is also endless. Once done, it must be done again. Answering as it does to the requirements of life itself, it can end only with the end of life" (Green ,1968).

Im realising and (this reflection helps),Things are different to other years as I have a far smaller garden and the climate is slightly limiting .SO im going to be realistic .My new needs from the garden  to have a wealth of salads and herbs especially basil and coriander.  This should work well because salads make food more interesting and it should be easy grow enough for my family of six .
If I try and grow enough spuds I will need a small field - so that ain't going to happen.

The next need I realised I have is to  changing the environment from the last owner of the house to my vision of the house .I think that my garden and house need to reflect who we are as a family. I also need it to able to allow us to eat tasty food on  no money; if you grow coriander parsley bunching onions you can survive on anything .
Actually I think im argueing that i have an aesthetic need for the garden to reflect who i am rather than who lived there (Thanx G9 for your comment made me think a wee bit ) AS soon as i saw the garden i knew i could change a large area at the back in to  a garden area . but this is a large work in progress which included taking down two huge pines .

Again when i have argued the need of labour i think that at the moment i have no spirutual need for labour  i.e this week when i was gardening this week i had spent friday and saturday working on other peoples properties and then sunday morning trying to cull or flower bed cutting and hacking flax  roses pulling out unwanted tussocky stuff.

I think at the moment my need for the garden is secondary to other considerations and I am trying to install a system that allows a good amount of food for liittle effort.One where the garden is an extra positive for our lifestyle not one that takes over the spare time that we have between work study and family time, for it complement my life and enrich it not be another stressor.
With all this reflecting i realised iwasnt being much use in the garden and decided to go on the trampoline with two of my kids.

Reference list
Green, T. (1968). Work, Leisure, and the American Schools. New York:, Random House.