This months session was titled Get Growing.
I enjoyed learning about get growing, composting and activity slides.
Many thanks to Ahmed for creating and organising the presentation and providing refreshments.
Ikea Live Lagom Get Growing Session
Ikea Live Lagom Get Growing Session - Tonight's plan slide
How many acres of unused windowsills are there in the UK?
Answer: 600 acres
Can you sell foraged food?
Answer: No!
Growing at home slide
Benefits of home growing
Small space upcycling slide
Useful Apps
Useful Apps
Re-growing from food scraps
How to regrow spring onions
Method
Cut the green top of the spring onion, leaving 3.5 cm of the white root base intact.
Place the section into the shallow jar and submerge half the plant in water.
Leave in a sunny spot and change the water every other day.
Harvest directly from the jar when ready.
How to regrow lettuce
Method
Cut lettuce leaves, making sure to leave 3.5cm of height on the root section.
Place it a bowl with enough water to submerge the root (around 1cm).
Place this in a sunny location and change the water every other day.
After two weeks, when the lettuce sprouts new leaves and roots you should plant it out into putting soil for prolonged growth
Harvest when the leaves grow to baby leaf size (10cm).
How to regrow celery
Harvesting seeds from scraps
How to harvest
What is foraging?
Foraging around the year
Methods of food preservation
Why make compost?
What to compost at home?
Activity no 1 - homemade banana fertiiliser
Activity no 2 - Enclosed ecosphere
Activity no 3 - self watering planter
Activity no 4 - tin can planter
I hope to adopt some of the practices above and get growing lettuce and vegetables over the summer.
I will share my photographs.
I look forward to our last session and graduation.
This month I continued to heal from my procedure (January 2022) to alleviate the pain in my left shoulder.
I celebrated Fairtrade Ramadan.
I continued to participate in my 10th Six Items Challenge with Labour Behind The Label.
I participated in the Ikea Lagom Live Get Growing Session.
Hello, Assalaam Alaikum, peace and blessings!
Thank you for taking the time to visit my Six Items Challenge 2022 blog.
I'm Sabeena, a social entrepreneur, fair trade campaigner and educator.
So here I am for the 10th consecutive year participating in the Six Items Challenge with Labour Behind The Label.
This blog has taken a long time to complete due to a horrible bacterial eye infection I've had since February.
This year the challenge commences 2nd March - 27th April 2022.
Happy 20th Birthday Labour Behind The Labour team!
Much love
Sabeena
This month I continued to heal from my procedure (January 2022) to alleviate the pain in my left shoulder.
Sadly, I was recovering from a painful bacterial eye infection and could only participate in a few March Fairtrade Fortnight 2022 webinars.
I participated in my 10th Six Items Challenge with Labour Behind The Label.
I supported the World Fair Trade Organizations campaign for International Day 2022 #SheLeadsTheWay.
I attended the The World Pulse 50: Voices Rising Award online Ceremony and was recognised as a Digital Empowerment Awardee along with 49 other exceptional women.
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