Ideas are easy to generate, I have a wealth of ever flowing ideas. What’s been hard is whittling them them down to simplify and to make them coherent and achievable. I feel like I’ve achieved that now. In our Guild meet-up last night, I learnt that Carla Moss managed to complete her Diploma in two years. This first year will certainly be very generative. There’s a lot of on the ground work taking place with community gardens and the grow-along project.
Here, if nothing more than to look back on, I’ll list the ideas I had at the very beginning of the Diploma process.
What would a perfect life look like? (Visioning)
> Zone 00. Inner landscape, own needs
> Recipe book
> Local Food
> Zero waste, zero chemical home
> Urban Salad Penarth (an idea that has run its course)
> USP Business Plan (edible plant sales, right livelihood)
> PGC Project Plan & and GT Network
> Penarth Kitchen Garden
> Introduction to Permaculture Workshop with Louise
> Forest School at The Kymin
> Plant nursery/greenhouse
> Permablitz
> Alleyways greening project
> Food coop/food buying group
> WTHH – update space for siting and noticing in the garden, new raised bed, greenhouse/orangery,
> More learning about plants, especially perennials (PGC website)
> Our house – closed system of inputs and outputs
> Urban homesteader
> Local Food Market
> Local Food Symposium
> PGC Events Programme (now morphed into GT | Grow-along after successful funding bid)
> Grow Local CIC
> Book | Designing for Social Change
> School food garden
> Orchard Penarth
> Abundance Institute/ CAT in the City/ Centre for Sustainable and Regenerative Urban Living
> Harvest suppers
> Youtube content creator
> WTHH – Energy, water, waste, resources, transport – insulation and windows
> Kymin Community Gardens: Wild food Garden, Children’s Garden, Bramble Patch Kitchen Garden, Food Forest, Secret Garden
> Urban Permaculture website (sallyhughes.co.uk)
> Social Media Strategy
> Share Community Directory (mapping our local food ecosystem +)
> West House Community Garden
> Skills for the Future Curriculum
> Community Kitchen
> Skillshare
> Allotment
> Eco-village/patchwork/distributed
> Neighbourhood project SOUP