A big thank you to our Buzzy Dig Day Participants!!

A big thank you to our Buzzy Dig Day Participants!!

At our April Dig Day in the Community Garden, we participated in the Autumn Wild Pollinator Count. Each of us spent 10 minutes staring at a flowering plant and counting which pollinators paid a visit. This humble task may seem inconsequential, but think again… thanks to your efforts and those of hundreds of others around…

The plant, my teacher

The plant, my teacher

words by Kit Some plants play a visual trick on us, with flower heads that seem to be floating in air. Iris is one example, where the long thin stems from a distance are not visible. Or Dandelion seed head. A lovely conceit, and a moment of thrill to see something floating, that doesn’t match the laws of physics,…

Rashomon in the Kitchen

Rashomon in the Kitchen

Words by Kit. Photography by Christian Seidenberg and Aisha Phillips. There’s a famous Japanese film by Akira Kurosawa set several hundred years ago called Rashomon, which portrays an incident involving a woman on a journey through a forest. The story is told four times, from the differing perspectives of the four characters in the film. I have…

How volunteering with Transition Bondi changed our lives in Sydney

How volunteering with Transition Bondi changed our lives in Sydney

Words by Jonas and Gabriela We had been in Sydney for a few months when we discovered Transition Bondi in October of last year. Unfortunately, our time in the organization will be short as we will leave Australia already in May. Even though we’ve only spent a few months with Transition Bondi, the organisation has had…