Turning over a new leaf.

In today's society, the environment is a particularly pressing issue. Food management and sustainability is becoming a continually discussed problem, and is something that everyone should think about, and question their actions regaurding the environment. I have decided to help the environment, in a practical and somewhat therapeutic fashion. Armed with an increased knowledge about crop development and vegetable plots attained from the Environmental Horticulture course I am doing, I have began a few of my own little projects around the household garden. My family has always had an environmental undertone. Yes, the folks do vote for the greens, we are surrounded by native species that we have planted in the garden, and things that are supposed to go into the recycling do. This about as 'environmentally friendly' as the familly gets. I have began the construction of a vegetable patch, simple in design, and for now, to just grow lettuce. Growing lettuce is a great idea for the family, considering that we have some sort of salad with most meals. A compost bin has also been constructed, where normal vegetative household waste can be used for something positive to the environment, as opposed to rotting in a garbage bag at a tip. This matterial from the compost will ultimately be used on the vegetable plot for fertiliser. You feel great after eating something you have grown, just like putting a fillet of fish that you have just caught on the barbeque. It's a natural instinct for man kind to enjoy what you have put effort into, and the good old vegie patch is no exception.