Back To The Land

I've moved. I left behind all those fruit trees, plants in my garden and the herbs that I came to love at 13140 Thomas Road, Ladysmith. I had to take a very small (smallest in the park I'm told) Mobile Home Park Bay at Southgate Mobile Home Park ; municipal address,  #4 - 1226 Lawlor Road, Nanaimo, BC. V9R 6L6Here is the City of Nanaimo Property Report

1226 LAWLOR ROAD - Property Report

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General Information		Parcel Graphic
Address:	4 1226 LAWLOR ROAD, NANAIMO, BC	Open in NanaimoMap Open as KML (Google Earth) Open in Google Maps Open in Bing Maps
Folio:	70371.040
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Legal Description:	BAY 4, NANAIMO DISTRICT, SOUTHGATE PARK (UR BILLING FOLIO 16759.000)
Zone	R12 MOBILE HOME PARK RESIDENTIAL Please select ZONING from the THEMES menu in NanaimoMap for more information.
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Sewer Benefiting Area	YES
GIS Link	216764
Location	49.13225, -123.9232

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So that is what the City of Nanaimo says is there. But here are my pictures of what is there now, I took these July 31, 2012.

Front is Annamie's 1989 Toyota Tercel DX, 5 door hatchback, my 1973 Datsun 620PL (Pickup Light) is next and behind the green tarp (now removed) is my 5' x 7' shed. To the right is my home: a classic 1974 Citation 5th Wheel, fully skirted and converted to a Mobile Home Park Model (on jack stands, no 12V. system, it is all 110V. except for the running lights and no propane system. It is now all electric and the holding tanks for fresh, grey and black water have been removed.

Although I have air conditioning, I want to shade my home naturally and so save electricity. So I made this planter across the front and planted Scarlet Runner Beans  that will grow and shade the front as well as hiding my unit.

Turning the corner, along the right side of my fifth (the West side), I've planted Climbing Nasturtiums.

Annamie Colina is watering my garden area out behind the shed, around the perimeter of which I've also planted the Scarlet Runner Beans for privacy, food, flowers and to help the netting keep the neighbourhood cats out. As soon as I dig the soil, the cats are in there fouling it with their smelly, squishy (a result of being fed Purina dried food) wastes. Our cat, Christine, is fed raw organic chicken and the difference in smell and volume of her wastes and her health has been remarkable! Cats are carnivores and feral cats catch and eat smaller animals.

Another picture of Annamie Colina watering my plants. In the foreground is the power and telecommunications pole for the neighbouring Bay #5 that I recently replaced as the former post was rotted away as was mine for Bay #4.

Part of my Container Garden. I only have plants that I can eat. So
there are strawberries , garden strawberries , (a hybrid), orange day-lilies , parsley , and clover.

This is my square, black composter to make my compost for my plants in the right hand rear corner of my bay. Beside it, to the right are my 2 ferns . In front of the composter is another day-lily with a volunteer thistle growing alongside. I only became aware of Thistle edibility recently. To the right of that is growing what I believe is a Fire-weed . Time will tell. There's a Dandelion sprouting in my Miner's Lettuce. The final container contains one of my
favourite spring pot herbs: Stinging Nettle.

To the right of the parking, is a strip of soil that I'm encouraging to go natural. There's Chickweed, Dandelion , Quack or Couch grass and Plantain.

This is a Hawthorn that for a variety of reasons, have become very important to me: My N.D. (Naturopathic Doctor) has recommended a herbal tincture of Hawthorn for my C.H.F.

 This is my favourite berry, a Blackberry.

This area of my garden, back of the shed, I've broadcast Mustard and Kale seed.

 Lavender has a place in my garden for a number of reasons.

There is a lot going on in these containers in my garden. Lower left, clockwise is violet , strawberries, sage, oregano, day-lily flower, lemon balm, mint, strawberries, clover and day-lily again.

I love the macrobiotic concept: Eat what grows where you live in season! If we all could keep this in mind, imagine the fossil fuels we could save the world. So in Nanaimo what are we supposed to eat in the winter?

I like to keep in mind what GROWNFOODS stand for.

Remember? G=Green, R=Raw, O=Organic, W=Wet or Wild, N=Natural which means FOODS should be grown and used to nourish our bodies as God intended, not as mankind plans to profit from.

So let's eat  Winter vegetables, sprouts, dried fruits, dried vegetables, fresh or dried seaweeds, nuts and seeds.

Please be very sure about what you eat! There are many good guides, I like the Wild Edibles Series on YouTube | Sergei Boutenko