whatever happened to that ONE.
a free pumpkin recipe and lots of garden changes on my mind
This is the ONE,
my garden gave me, well it slowly slowly grew me a single pumpkin and we celebrated it in style. The Jack-o-lantern-soup recipe is a free page on my patreon page (there is some free content to be found in order to show what kind of content I share via blog, vlog and letters) and I wanted to share the link here as a thank you for joining my newsletter.
I hope you also have ONE pumpkin, or a few more, that you can magic into a heart-warming big old pot of soup for yourself.
Here it is, a link over to my patreon page where I regularly share family favourites (vegan and child friendly)
https://www.patreon.com/posts/jack-o-lantern-31696188
Recently my kid and me chopped up all of the pumpkin pictured at the top of this text and we made a big pot of the soup you see here and it was both a cooking team moment of fun and a celebration of what my garden patch has come up with for me and her to enjoy. She loves this soup so so much.
Currently the community of the garden I am a part of is in a big process of moving patches / we have been allotted a new area in the school garden, as simply the gardener had run out of spaces for the classes and kindergarten groups to have their fields, after a huge chunk of the gardens land was re-purposed for a future primary school. As the garden ground in its entirely is part of the local schooling council, it literally being a Garden school where the local schools and Kindergartens are invited to have fields and tend to plants so the children can learn about the process- anyway, as they are part of the district school council the gardeners themselves were not allowed to protest, instead a internal hick-hack has made it hard work even just to organise classes, which also during the pandemic was not easy for the team, politically and inter-relations have grown more and more tense within the team, as well as the actual build of the school being delayed since (no surprise to us) the corner where they started to build is very rich in traffic and therefore both dangerous for young children as well a huge issue when it comes to noise-pollution. Its a tough time, and we try to make the best of it, all of us, and mainly the garden team who simply try and keep their jobs and stay involved teaching local young people.
Still, inside the garden gates we have shuffled, a new area was designated for the intercultural garden I am a part of.
We are a community from all over the world, multi-cultural families as well as older members each gardening on their own strip (around 13 square meters large) with additional communal patches. it sound idilic, but it involves a lot of arguments, a lot of patience and generally is work. Constantly. So now, after a rather discussion heavy summer, come this autumn we have managed to agree and decide on who will move where and our communal and also individual garden-moving efforts have started.
I am hoping to loosen the grounds I have been assigned by planting potatoes and peas next year and not much else, since it is a very very tough ground (solidified with years of compression as this was where tractors drove over when delivering the manure or creating mountains of soil) tucked away in the back corner of the gardens.
I am getting some help now, and taking it slow, working 1-2 hours at a time to create a new small garden to grow almost as wild as the previous plot I looked after. I am up-rooting and moving my red-currant bush as well as some raspberry and rhubarb plants this week and hope they settle in ok. Let’s see how the new corner grows for me, and how I grow into it.
One thing is certain, I am absolutely most delighted being next to my neighbour.
We just get each other, we giggle and we help one-another and that is it, that is why I keep at it, write the protocols for the group or take on content rolling around with emails bouncing here or there,- it is worth while- because here are people I am fond of, and gardening along-side them makes me grounded. Plus we share some fabulous food.
So on this note, I hope you can enjoy the recipe I shared today, and that you, too have ways to re-root, places to find as new, changes to accept, but also grow within.
I salute you, even if it is uncomfortable or comfortable= change is good.
Let’s just wait and see.
Also, if you like the recipe, or just feel like helping me out growing my writing and podcasting, then please consider supporting my work via patreon.
If you already support my patreon page: thank you so very much for your care and love, it means a lot.
Yours,
Mimi
Mimi reads right now:
“The Gilded ones” Namina Forna
“Daughter of the Moon Goddess” Sue Lynn Tan
chatterbox press The talking morror news-letters
“The Creative Tarot” Jessa Crispin
Mimi listens to:
“This Here Flesh” Cole Arthur Riley audiobook
Bronte Swannick podcasts
Mimi crafts:
a Halloween costume you will need to see to believe
the Yarnchix Calendar 2023 (pre-orders via etsy.com/shop/yarnchix are now open)
Pengweeno
Twist and Turns Mkal
Foster hat
Habitation throw
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