Off we went.








The Daylesford Community Op-Shop is based on a Swedish thrift store model: to provide local community members with what they need including electrical items, so they don’t have to shop outside of town or buy new items, and all profits are then put back into the community.

Local not-for-profit organisations can apply to receive the profits for a month. The month of May for example is for Hepburn Wildlife Shelter, which means that they promote that month as theirs. They can bring in their saved-up goods to be sold and their members volunteer at the op-shop.
Based on the size of our town the op-shop is forecast to inject $100,000 a year back into the community.
There’s also a community space where mothers can nurse their babies, a book nook, a seed bank and a chai lounge. Pretty amazing, huh?

A brief stop at one of our community food gardens to turn over the compost, and then on we go.

Back home and our day was not quite done. Inside our chicken coop, our birds have been flying over the low fence and have been digging up one of our vegie patches. We have been setting up more substantial fencing over the last few weeks. And after our recent score we finally had enough timber to make some gates.

We harvested the last of the potatoes and Jerusalem artichokes, dug the beds over, added compost and planted them out with heirloom vegies.




And here is the final fruit of our labours: a stack of kindling wood ready for the winter.

that's a great billy cart! i've only just started reading your blog and i have to say that i find you and your family such an inspiration. the car, the tv, the video games, all the unnecessary stuff we have in our life, i'd love to just chuck it all right now, but i there are 4 of us in this family and, well, i have a little convincing to do. we are slowly making changes though. it is heartening to read of others living simply, radically and joyfully.
Lovely to see what you are all up to!
Your garden looks magnificent as always.
Looking great guys, loving the billy cart. What you going to do with the wood?
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