Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Back To Earth...

Being a person living in an artificial and uncompassionate world of wage slavery, genetically-engineered food, and mass media bombardment in almost every corner of the city, I feel great seeing myself in this garden site digging, touching the soil and planting these organic fruit seeds. In the future, these seeds will become tree and their fruit will be shared and nourish the body of the person who will eat it…and so the BHSG. The beauty of this project will inspire, encourage, and help others appreciate the importance of growing and sharing food.

In my own view, gardening is not just planting food alone; it is about how I reconnect my self to other precious lives existing in my natural world by giving my energy back to earth. And for me, community gardening is about how we maintain and nurture a healthy relationship with other people. It is an important alternative to solve the problems we are facing such as famine, malnutrition, and even food poisoning. By doing this positive action, we can put an end to our consumption to expensive and unsustainable food available in the supermarket or fast food chains that’s heavily laden with harmful pesticides, antibiotics, artificial flavorings and preservatives.


When there are many community gardens everywhere, no one will ever experience starvation and diseases will never be that difficult to handle. When there is decentralization of food distribution in local and in the global level, surely everybody will survive in this world! Unlike now, multinational corporations, backed by corrupt governments, are constantly monopolizing the production of food while endlessly encroaching the people’s right to health and natural medicine. As a statement, BHSG project is a constant reminder that natural medicine and organic food is important and nobody should deprive us of the right to grow them and share them to others.

As people, our role on this planet is to coexist with other sacred earthly beings and experience the wholeness of nature and life. As an organization, the goal of BHSG is to provide an alternative that promotes sharing and cooperation and to educate others about the importance of community gardening especially in an organic way. In the near future, we will share our time and skills to other people so that they can also start growing food for their survival. To plant food for a healthy consumption, to cook the harvest of our patience and persistence, to share it to other people in need (involved or not involved in this project), is to bring ourselves back to earth. - By Life


Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Volunteer Action Day Six...

The newest volunteers...Ian and Jay

weeds to manage

Healthy food for the volunteers

Volunteer action day five...

Planning the work

Working the plan

The search for tools and more volunteers...


While searching for the right shop to buy the necessary gardening tools (in the future!), we posted this message to appropriate places.



Different kinds of bolo



Various shapes of shovel



For the harvest in the future!

The Office...

"To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves" -Gandhi



It is kind of unimaginable how everything slowly builds up; it's so great to see ideas slowly grow and struggle its way up into existence. Like a seed, becoming a life itself - a being. And so, I am very happy to be the instrument in the birth of this garden and as part of the process, too, I am now starting to germinate. I never had experience of "real" gardening before and as a child detached from the beauty of natural reality, deprived of the idea of "healthy life", i didn't mind living in a world of adverts, pesticides and fast food toys. Although eating junk in a fast food restaurant like Jollibee or McDonalds is a very seldom thing for me to do when I was a child (because I came from a poor family), I still see through the lens of the past that I was a victim of this "grand experiment". Unfortunately, I am not living in a comforting and sincere society so nobody cares what happen to the water, the air or the food that we consume... and so nobody teach about the importance of gardening and living an organic life.


But now, I feel very lucky to be in this place; with library full of important ideas and inspiring stories, it is here at this place that a Sharing Garden project in the Philippines was born - a humble house, full of memories of both wonderful times and stupidity - is now naturally becoming a womb bearing the dream of health and abundance. Hearing that our story is now unfolding, some of our friends are very happy and are now willing to help in their own little ways. As a gift, I will treasure and develop this knowledge and skills and i will continue working to make everything possible.


While waiting for the donation of seeds to arrive (thanks to Llyn and Chris!), we are now planning for future activities and work.

Friday, January 6, 2012

Volunteer Action Day Four...

So this is the 4th day since we started the actual work in the site. With the growing number of volunteers and the contagious enthusiasm that they have, I am safe to say that this will go on. By the way, here are the few tools that we have for the moment, it's one of the reasons why the process is so slow...

Anyway, here are the new volunteers...four nice energetic kids!

Fresh banana from the neighbor...

New Volunteers...

 Welcome to Sharing Garden!


Jek Jek


"I'm Ading, 10 years existing here on this planet earth. I heartily volunteer as one of the gardener because I want to help and get involved in this "sharing garden" project."



"My parents gave me a name Jan, 11 years of age. I work as a volunteer in this meaningful ''sharing garden''. It's exciting to be with other volunteers especially because we can play while working."


 
Kristoffer