Introducing Charlie Mgee

On Thursday night I went to the Flame Tree Community Food Coop to see Charlie Mgee, a Permaculture ukulele performer with a special guest Paul Spencer.

Paul Spencer

It was such a great atmosphere of live music, veggie soup and organic tea with honey.

Charlie Mgee sees himself as an educator for all things permaculture and writes wonderful catchy tunes so we wont forget what he's talking about. There were a few things that he sung about that really popped out at me, the first was a song about the edge. Life is far more interesting on the edge and I think I have to agree with that.

The 2nd was how we need to obtain a yield, whether you pick the  produce that you have planted, to the happy and satisfying feelings you get from gardening. It also strikes me that abundance is everywhere and we need to just be thankful and receive it. Its time to also break cycles of poverty within our communities and create more sustainable living for everyone.

The 3rd thing was about observing and I have to say it was like he gave me permission to just sit and watch. Not that I need permission as I am a person who always likes to watch, so perhaps I should just say, confirmation that what I do is awesome???

Charlie Mgee

Anyway here is one of his catchy numbers that I hope you will enjoy and just be careful, it will stay in your brain all day.

Sharing the Harvest

Cliff Came up with a top idea for our excess produce and was able to hand over a lot of food to a local charity called The Food Barn Warrawong, which is connected to The Hope Centre.

This is yet another positive and wonderful way of how a community garden can impact the neighbourhood and society. As people are increasingly finding it hard to keep up with bills or even find somewhere to live, community gardens is one of many solutions I believe that can address the mentioned crisis.

More focus and execution of such projects need to be implemented as this demonstrates a positive solution to an ever growing problem of families being short of cash. The reason why its important; is a community garden promotes friendship,  food education, innovation, hope and being able to obtain a yield. 

With that yield comes food, recipes, confidence, a sense of joy and being able to give back to the community and these things should never be underestimated!!