But there is much to be said for walking in the sunshine, and today we said it as we walked to our local tip. We wanted to get rid of some unwanted goods, and have a fossick to see if there was anything we had use for at home.
We fossicked high and we fossicked low. And we fossicked around and around the Earth Ship demonstration wall we built earlier in the year with waste warrior Michael Reynolds.
We test rode all the bikes,
we sniffed out hidden treasures
including 30 metres of tangled chicken wire we are going to use to keep our five hens and one rooster out of a new garden bed.
We spent the better part of an hour pulling it this way and that until
it was ready to roll up and
roll all the way home.
Liam goes to the local secondary college and this week is doing work experience with Artist as Family. Liam lives around the corner and every day this week has arrived on his bike at 9am with a bag of wild apples picked by his mum, ready to start the day.
as is promoting bike culture in our town, and the monthly local Critical Mass ride.
Because we don’t shop in supermarkets, thinking and talking about what we eat is also a big part of what we do. What we put in our bodies fuels the art we make, so if we want to make environmentally and socially responsible work, the food we eat needs to represent this. Every Wednesday we shop at our local organic bulk food table. This week we bought olive oil, almonds, tahini and 2kg of fresh juicy feijoas.
We made pasta.
We planted garlic before the full moon.
We measured up a potential site for a 
We made music
and most importantly, we made a great new friend.
