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PetraLeavethatgnomealone@pixelfed.social

2025-03-30

We had unseasonably warm weather here in Forest of Dean (FoD) last week and it's nice and mild today. It rained last night properly for the first time in a while. Things are waking up and there's enough in the garden to keep us ticking over. The greenhouses are packed with salad greens, many self-seeded from last year. So we have salad greens just about every day. Seedlings are coming along well too.
The bees are quiet today but they had a great year and done well over the winter WITHOUT any help from chemicals or sugar feed. I don't treat them or feed them.
Last year they swarmed!
The willow hedge we put in for a windbreak did it's job over the winter, protecting the greenhouses.
This year, I'm back at it (after donating a kidney last year which knocked my growing schedule last year).
Last year was so awful for so many growers with the cold summer and record breaking rain and flooding. Here's hoping this year is a bit drier! #growyourownfood #goodfoodcomesfromthegarden #permaculture #nodig #bees #willow #seedsovereignty #saveseeds #growagarden #goodfoodisnotrocketscience #radicalgardening #resistbigagriculture #soilhealth

Luverlee! #temperature #spring

Happy Kidney Day! From my friend. #shareyourspare #livingkidneydonor

Not very exciting to look at I know, but the slab is down for our new air sourced heat pump...#airsource #heatpump #greenerenergy

Today is the anniversary of my kidney donation! One year ago I donated a kidney to a stranger, whose living donor donated for my friend. Transplant recipients celebrate every year as if it were a birthday. They also traditionally name their kidneys. I've no idea sbout my direct recipient but my friend named her kidney Hope. Happy Birthday Hope! #livingkidneydonor #shareyourspare #organdonor #kidneytransplant #kidneyversary

I said it was crazy weather over here. #britishweather #spring

My temperature blanket had new colours added this week. The misty blue and then misty lilac, as the temperatures increased with the arrival of spring. Back to grey today though and the high was only 5°C down from 16°C on Sunday. #temperatureblanket #crochet

Love these.

I have just cancelled Amazon and Netflix after 20yrs and bought a TV licence. #fuckamazon #fucknetflix #BBC #economicblackout #istandwithukraine

Well done. Welcome to the sane asylum

Such a relief to know I can leave that moss in my north-facing 'lawn' and be doing the planet a favour.💚🌍 most of my 'lawn' is growing veg anyway.

So here's a bit about what I do for a living. I'm an environmental consultant and I specialise in management systems and waste management. In March Defra has made changes to the Extended Producer Responsibility Scheme. It places greater responsibility on producers of goods needing packaging. It ends up as waste and we, the people, currently pay for it to be collected and dealt with. Now the EPR means that companies must track their packaging and account for it and pay for the waste they put out as packaging. The EPR therefore outlines ways to save on materials, what to use that is easier to recycle and how to avoid waste packaging. It's back on them now. It should NEVER have been down to the individual to save the planet one bottle at a time - the great corporate con! Now, at least companies in England and Wales will be paying for their crap, and not us. #extendedproducerresponsibilityscheme #ukwaste #packagingwaste #reducingwasteatsource #producerpays