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It has been a year already I started to get involved with the Crop Club. Here I give some details on my adventure and how the first year, well the last 6 months went. It is all good :) 1 Year Anniversary at the Crop Club

Published on Thoughful I am five years old. I’m in my bedroom with my coloured pencils and colouring book. Opening the book, I grab a pencil and start colouring. And then, it happens—the thing that always happens to kids my age. I simply cannot stay inside the lines. I am frustrated. It is SO FRUSTRATING! Crying out for my mum to save me from this colouring disaster, she opens the door. “What’s wrong?” “Help!” She sits next to me. She takes a pencil. She shows me how to do it. “Stay calm, take a deep breath, and move the pencil around the edges of the picture, like this,” she explains. I watch her carefully. I follow her instructions. I fail a few times. And then, like magic, I am no longer going outside the lines. I am a colouring genius. And all it took was one word—help. It has taken me a couple of decades, some academic research and a little reminiscing to get to this simple truth… that in a weird way, help is like glue. When something is broken, vexingly incomplete, help is the b...

I am working with the CropClub - a social enterprise - which have for mission to spread the joy of growing across communities on top of Leicester Fixers , a venture encouraging people to repair and my Ph.D. With the CropClub, we have just launched a new product - the Magic Dust - it is to feed the bees - a mix of wildflower seeds and biodegradable glitter in an hessian bags. I love the product - it has a magical side to it. You spread it on a ground, a bit of sunshine and it sprouts! All you have to do is to get it on their website, receive it and spread it! I have my own bag of Magic Dust, The MarleFeed Magic Dust, a bag full of opportunities for new ventures and adventures with existing partners. It is just waiting to be spread and yet I am not ready. I have to find the ground, the space and time, take a deep breath and finally spread the joy of growing for all those seedling ideas with the gushing uncertainty that they may never grow... or they will, won't...

My mind is cloudy. It has been a month and a half, my father entered the hospital. I haven't been back to France as yet. Soon, I will. The pain in my heart is big. Yet, I try to convince myself that I will better worth to keep working. Little do I know, what the future may hold Great teachings to come.

I had the nicest valentines' weekend ever. On Saturday, one of our good friend from Scotland came over. He and my husband went to do some shopping over the afternoon whilst I was busy volunteering at a festival to enthuse youngsters to sciences and technology. They picked me up when we all finished. We came back home. They put all the shopping away. I was on my side exhausted and decided to go to sleep. I was conflicted between cleaning, cooking and sleeping and decided that I better get some rest and went up to my bedroom.. It did not really matter for them two. They had plans. A couple of hours later, I woke up, got myself refreshed and dressed. I came downstairs. The house was cleaned, the candles lighted up in the living room, the floor shining. The dinner was almost ready with a smell that would definitely woke up angels. Sooooo Yummy. Few friends came over. We ate together. We had some serious conversations about LOVE, men, women, how to make it...

My father used to say that the funeral is for the living. I interpreted that the funeral is a reminder of our little time we have on this planet and the need for us to rejoice thinking about what we have shared with the person we lost and also look to the future and think about how we are going to transform. We never lose the people we love. The love we have for them remains. Their presence is conditional because of the forces at play in this world but the love is unconditional. I forgot this when my dad lost his memory. I had deep sorrow and I was so indecisive as to how I will evolve. THe comfort having him into my life was a cocoon from which I did not want to come out of. God will teach you to grow sooner or later, so let it go and LOVE LIFE whilst it lasts.

There are many benefits to start growing your own fruits and vegetables. For you and your family, the benefits are as follow:  Fresh and nutritious fruits and vegetables. Fruits and vegetables from your own garden are higher in nutrients than the ones that have travelled several thousand miles to get to your grocery store. Having your children assist you in the garden can increase the chance that they will eat more of the fruits and vegetables they have helped to grow Growing your own fruits and vegetables can offer you the opportunity to reduce the amount of pesticides that you use in your garden, making them healthier. Growing your own fruits and vegetables will save your money at the grocery store. Gardening increases physical activity. It is a great way to engage the whole family in physical activity and lets them help to take responsibility for the garden. The fruits and vegetables grown in your garden will promote health because they are rich in nutrients, especiall...