Still Wwoofing in Eden
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007Day two in Brokenhead Beach. It feels so good to physically create something with your hands. This morning we started out with weeding and mulching the organic garden. Weeding is a good task for someone whose a little ADD like me. I even mulched the weed plant. HeHe! It looks FABULOUS now!
For a good part of the day, we sat around waiting to see what was next. Greg had several people stop in, so work was halted.
In the afternoon, we began rebuilding the earthen stairs. I guess we just cleaned them up a bit, but it involved back breaking hoe work. We had to hoe the area to pull up the very deep grass roots and level out the stairs. I’m really sore, but it was satisfying work.
I think you get such a sense of accomplishment through physical labor and seeing concrete results of your work. I’m afraid most of my techno-saturated generation is very much missing out on that feeling.
This evening, more visitors arrived. A DJ from Melbourne and his manager are here to stay for a few days. We had another fantastic dinner with pesto made that day with garden fresh vegetables over pasta. Yummy. Then we started working on drinking our several bottles of wine that we can’t bring back to the states because of the nazi liquid restrictions.
And we got our first digiredoo lesson. Fun times.
– Carrie
Wwoof, 
Here, dune regeneration consists of removing the Bituo bush that was introduced to the area by mining companies in the past. The tree grows quickly so was used to stop the erosion in places that were mined. The tree became a pest, much like kudzu. It takes over the indigenous plants and kills them. So, this is one hell of a job and won’t be complete in many years, if ever. I’m glad to be associated with a group who is making the effort to do this work. It’s an interesting contrast to the Florida dune regeneration projects that consist of building the dunes up and is needed as a result of erosion due to over-development and hurricanes.
We visited the Aloombra Lavender Farm in southern Queensland on our trip to wine country. The proprietor is actually a WWoof host who I didn't contact. Thank God. The store ... 
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