Not an original idea, a vegetable growers club, but an excellent one, I've decided.
Last night Robyn and I met with and presented to the Dunedin Vegetable Growers Club and enjoyed the experience very much and at the same time became inspired by what they represent; that is, people who grow vegetables! Such clarity and nobleness of purpose and what a lovely group of people!
On the drive home, we talked about establishing a similarly focused club here in Riverton and decided that we certainly will. If we can do what they do; attract people who would rather concentrate on vegetable growing than flower growing, we'd be a big help to the movement to food-self reliance in the south and would add to the already strengthening community here that's gradually weaning itself from the supermarkets.
I'm ruminating on a logo now and Robyn is constructing a programme for the meetings we will hold and visits the Riverton Vegetable Growers Club will make. Thanks, DVGC for your inspiration! One day, we'll all come for a visit of your vegetable gardens.
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Delighted to hear it!! You are both very welcome to any of our garden visits....I meant to tell you that the first garden visit I went to with the DVGC was to Adam's flat in NEV where he had taken over the lawns to grow food..... impressive :)
Thanks for inviting us to speak to your wonderful club, renetsil. It was a great evening for us and very inspiring to see so many people so actively engaged in both vegetable growing and going to meetings! I hope our new cub will be as well supported. I was especially impressed by the presentation before us, from your local grower and the kinds of advice he was giving - kind of like a living gardening manual. I learned good stuff from him and from the vegetable gardeners I spoke with afterwards.
When I got home, I found that someone had delivered me a rumex that I'd never seen before. It doesn't take much to please a gardener :-)
Was it sanguineus? It's wonderful to behold!
Is that an onion in the photo? It's quite large.
It isn't sanguineus, renetsil, it was a much smaller, more modestly attired native maritime rumex. I have bloody dock growing out where the Guinea pigs are roaming (at least, I did have :-)
It is, AC, typical of the area.
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