Hedvig’s permaculture diploma

So, it has been a month since I left FRP, and in that time I’ve moved from Leyton back to Hackney; spent time looking after my nephew; found a new flatmate; reading; pottering about in the garden and submitted a funding application.

It is great to be back in Hackney: living with one of my best friends,  closer to other friends, having impromptu dinners, meandering along the canal and keeping amused by observing the Hackneyites.

Spending time with my nephew has been a lot of fun.  It is great to be instructed by someone that is three that I must go trampolining, read stories of Thomas the tank engine.  I find it amazing being around to realised how quickly he learns, and how the world expands with each new piece of information of which he becomes aware.

The quest for a new flatmate was quite a process, involving drafting a semi amusing ad, fielding all the responses and having various open house days and evenings.  The marathon one Sunday was made tolerable by the continuous supply of crepes.  In the end there was a bit of a battle between three girls, all of whom were interested in similar stuff, and in the end we went for Sarah.  She just moved in this weekend, and so looking forward to seeing what changes that brings.

Having time to read has felt like quite a luxury, not because I didn’t read before, but just because the stuff I am reading requires a fair amount of attention (like how to start up a professional gardening business) and now I’m getting stuck into a book about alternative forms of creative collaborations.  The lighter entertainment came from the new book by Richard Reynolds about Guerrilla Gardening, which was a good read.

The garden is more like a concrete patch, but the window boxes are coming along.  With a good amount of compost harvested we are now growing an array of veg like potatoes, beans, peas, pumpkins, squashes, tomatoes, carrots, salad leaves, edible flowers, herbs  and more.

The funding application was just to cover some of the start up costs for our pilot projects, so will see about that one.  Aside from that we are doing various bits of the project, but June will be the month of more concerted time developing our business plans, segmenting the market, doing some more research and the like.

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