Three Votes is my journey to explore what food means to me, and how food structures our society and culture. I'll be covering everything from garderning to gastro, horticulture to hors d'oeuvres, as I seek to find out how, almost without notice, our food landscape has shifted around us. Hopefully, you can find some insight in these pages and learn how you might better cast your three votes.
Monday, January 31, 2011
Another Day, Another Planter
Planter number 1 off the assembly line, PLANTERTRON 3000, being the beast that it is, took Greg and I probably about 8 hours to put together. As with all things in life, its successor, PLANTMAX 6000 was much quicker to build. Nows its just a matter of nicking a couple more pallets and getting a hold of a ton or so of soil, piece of cake!
Sunday, January 30, 2011
My First Planter
After reading various stories on the web about using discarded pallets as planter boxes, I set to work borrowing some pallets from a nearby construction site and enlisting the expertise of my friend and confectioner, Greg. Veraciously tearing the pallets to pieces,after day one our progress was a little slower than expected.
But after reconvening on day two with more serious weaponry the end result was exactly what I wanted. Now we just need to replicate it a couple of times over and I will have the perfect platform to start growing.
Welcome to Three Votes!
As this is my first post, I feel I should lay out my motivations in establishing this space. Having been mildly obsessed with food and its production for the past year, I felt the only responsible thing to do was try my hand at making my own food, and shortening my food chain as much as possible. So after stealing ... erm, "borrowing," a patch of council land I attempted to grow my own vegies in Balmain. I loved the process, I loved the learning, and most of all, I loved my food. But come winter I had to move out of my cozy Balmain den in the hippie exile of Erskineville. Over the coming weeks I'll be documenting my progress building a new garden at our terrace in Erskineville as well as hopefully exploring South Sydney to find more people producing foods in their own homes. And as always please feel free to jump in on this discussion as I am a pretty green green-thumb having only done this once before and am always looking for help!
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