Time to Grow

This week has been all about gardening!

This week myself and a few friends went along to the first main meeting of the West End Transition Town. We were told that despite there being a few transition towns out there, Dundee is the first urban area to take on the challenge. What I'm really looking forward to about this group is working with people of all ages. Like many other people my age, I have very little interaction with other age groups in my community outwith my own family. From the initial meet and greet session it looks like there are a lot of skills and knowledge in our group that I'm excited to learn from. I have chosen to become part of the food group as this is the area of my own life style that I have put most thought into in terms of becoming more sustainable.

So far Karen and I have reduced our meat consumption by a 2 or 3 days a week and most of the meat we do eat we try to buy from our local butcher on the Hilltown. Find of the week has been that the chicken breasts you get from there are total monsters and much cheaper than the water pumped rubbish from Tesco.

We have taken to buying all of our fruit and vegetables from Frasers (facebook) Fruit and Veg store on the Perth road and trying to eat more seasonally.

Last summer our own garden transformed from weedy mess to urban farming miracle. I say miracle because it lies in shadow of our tenement block for the majority of the day. This year has begun with a mini greenhouse, a fenced off area to stop the neighbours dog from peeing on all our food and the beginnings of our salad garden from seedling.