Firstly, thanks for reading. Secondly, apologies for the state of the website, it’s still very much “in progress”. Well this is going to be somewhat of a strange post. The idea is that I’m just going to write as I think and not to edit (and that way, more articles are likely to get published). I think it’s fun to follow people’s journey, so that’s what I’ve decided to do.
So as you may know, I am trying to develop a range of “zero waste” products and manufacturing processes. Actually, not just zero waste. More like “waste negative and nature positive”. Anyway.
The thing is, this is turning out to be more difficult than expected. So these are a couple of things that have happened recently and I thought I’d share my story.
- A few months ago, my neighbour used pesticide on a strip of our property — without asking. I didn’t say anything because I didn’t want to offend him. But we have parsley, garlic and potatoes growing in our front lawn (about 5 metres from where he sprayed). I’d rather write about it so that potentially billions of people can read about it. I know he thought’ he was doing us a favour. So if you’re that type of person and you’re reading this, don’t do it!
- A few weeks ago, my mum sprayed our scum pond with Baygon (an insecticide) “to kill the mosquito larvae”. Nice. But I got mad.
Soon after I started working on the scum pond, a nice little froggy appeared. So I had to remind her: what do frogs eat? That’s right, they eat INSECTS. So she apologised and isn’t going to do that again.