Saturday, March 23, 2013

Day 195 - A day on the farm


  • Yaroomba
  • 29°c

The alarm blasted me from my slumber at about 7.30 this morning, wasn’t that a shock to the system! But after a little snooze we were up and getting ready to head out to the farm. Lizette and Neale are part of a food co-op on the Sunshine Coast where they source local organic produce and in turn help out on the farms their food comes from. I was very interested in all of this and happily tagged along for the working bee.


There was about 15 or so people that turned up and todays task was pruning the water shoots from off the lime trees and there must have been at 100 lime trees. It was sooo hot out in the sun, we worked for a couple of hours and got them all pruned up. 


The co-op people had all brought something for morning tea and lucky for me there was a delish banana and walnut cake that was vegan!  


Darren the farmer was very kind and loaded the kids in his tractor and took them for a spin around the farm and then it was back to the limes, time to lay some weed mat. By this stage Oscar was over it, hot and bothered as were most of us, but we persevered for about another hour and then called it quits.


Not a lot of movement for the rest of the afternoon, although they did cross the plank to the neighbours house with the intention of going for a swim. Despite Aliyahs assurance that the water was beautiful, only toes were dipped in!


Steve, Neale & Lizette headed out to Maroochydore for the evening to see one of their friends Ziggy playing live. Steve said it was really great music.

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