Our garden beds, which include a variety of vegetables like lettuce, tomatoes, zucchini, and rocket, have somehow become overtaken by weeds! Of course, this is no good for their growth and so the team and I worked diligently at clearing a couple of them over the past week. One bed, on the middle terrace level, had apparently been seeded with okra, but those appeared to be lost among the weeds. So, we began ripping it all out to make space for some crowded lettuce in another bed. As we were pulling it out, Marina, a guest from Greece, let us know that some of those so-called weeds could actually be steamed and eating as a type of spinach! So, we were a bit more careful and selective in our weeding and had a lovely side dish of steamed spinach with dinner that night! After that bed was cleared, I worked on transplanting some lettuce from another bed to the now cleared bed. The lettuce has so much space now to grow and flourish!
A few weeks ago, we also welcomed new community members who speak a different language - quack quack! Three ducks now grace the property with their presence. Thanks to the care from Kundai, the ducks grew faster than expected, and we had to expand their living space tremendously! They have a caged enclosure with a roof over their heads and a bedding area, and this space was expanded three times so now they have a whole yard to roam around! Pretty immediately, they were happy to sit sunning for hours and gobbling up the fresh grass around their new home.
This place, Kalikalos, seems to nurture each community member's own journey to growth and nourishment. Just as the other living beings on the property, both vegetables and ducks, we are all discovering our way and growing each day into the human beings we want to be and into the community that Kalikalos is meant to be. It is a pleasure to watch each person's journey and to know that I am not alone on mine.
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Kelly Fleenor, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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