時間靜止的地方time stops flying

November 19 Permaculture Garden 

每次要到三峽山上都感覺慢慢失去對時間的覺知。從山下遠方處輾轉搭車入山，與其計算花多少時間讓自己起煩惱心，還不如放鬆自己，把手錶收起來，好好享受自然的韻律，畢竟時間只是分別心所創造出來的。雖然山坡上遊客川流不息，藏在山嵐與樹叢間的小山窩好似一個時間靜止的地方。踏入大門後，就隨著天氣與身體行事，天亮起床、下雨進屋、渴了喝水、餓了吃飯。少去時間與效率的計算，是否享受更多與自然互動的樂趣?

For me, the first step of horticultural therapy practice is to make hands dirty. The seven-year-old permaculture garden is a wonderland where time stops flying. How lucky I am to be accompanied by a horticultural therapist, a hunter and a nature reporter.

大豐收的季節，也是加工的季節。吃不完的柳丁，是做酵素的好材料。

開始育苗Starting seeds

2011.11.18 Nursery

終於買了種子，可以開始育苗了。雖然書上要求的是育苗盤和消毒過的培養土，天生反骨的我還是先拿了包裝水果的塑膠盤充作育苗盤，然後跑到屋後的老井旁挖了幾把竹叢底下的泥土。真的希望能夠試遍所有可能的容器，畢竟不是每個人都能夠從育苗行購買一格格的育苗盤。如果大家都能夠利用隨手可得的容器育苗，那麼就有更多的種子有機會發芽，慢慢地植物生長的空間便會擴大。這是我自己一廂情願的想法，想要替所有的種子爭取生存權，讓自然界的植物更多樣化。除了風味佳、產量大、外型符合人類表准的植物之外，許多被人類剝奪生存權的植物可能對大自然會有貢獻，只是這些貢獻為人類所不知或是忽視。

After buying some kinds of seeds, I started seeding. At the same time, I wanted to try different kinds of containers for seeding. After all, not every one can use seed trays in his own place.

 先挖幾個洞，免得積水。

This is a tray used to pack grapes. I tried to puncture at the bottom.

屋頂上的黃金? Do bamboo leaves match longan leaves?

2011.11.15 HT Garden

     想想，第一堆堆肥應該很厲害。竹叢旁就是廢棄的豬舍，聽叔叔說以前養了不少豬，下雨時豬的排泄物就會流到旁邊的竹林。難怪把竹葉推開，底下滿滿是黑呼呼的泥土。不過，堆肥完成後，就很難說是竹葉還是豬便便的功勞。

    既然如此，乾脆把實驗精神發揮到極致。當下到山坡頂端的竹林裡挖寶，小鋤頭往下一挖，也不錯耶。腐葉土的顏色沒有下面竹林的土黑，不過感覺很好。到底有多好，只可意會不可言傳。第二堆堆肥完成。

     往斜坡下望，屋頂上的是黑黑的土嗎?現在雙眼好像雷達一樣，強力搜尋腐葉土。看來，第三堆堆肥有望了。

Get two more piles of compost ready. The second one is full of bamboo leaves and soil underneath from the bamboo forest on the top of the hill. The third one is made of a mix of bamboo leaves and longan leaves from the roof of Uncle Shea's house down the hill.  

到外面走走keep walking in the nature

巫老大語錄:太陽公公下山去，小河嬤嬤回家了。想要看遠遠，一二往上走。

巫老大不愛吃飯，所以沒有天天便便。媽咪要她到外面走走，跟太陽公公說再見，再去小河嬤嬤看挖土機工作，巫老大想要看遠遠，一二一二往上走，回家蹲馬桶看故事書，便便就出來了。鼓勵鼓勵!!!  巫老大語錄:天天吃飽飽，去外面走走，就可以便便，不用去看醫生阿伯。
More than one thousand years ago, a poet was amazed by Yellow River, one of the 10 longest rivers in the world, and wrote a poem to appreciate the boundlessness of nature. When we feel down, go out and enjoy the power of Mother Nature. To live healthily, keep moving in the nature. (An old Chinese saying) Our ancestors have known how to get healed in the nature.

竹葉堆肥??Bamboo leaves??

November 14 HT garden

在我們家附近竹林頗多，幾乎家家戶戶旁都有一小片竹林。刺竹的竹籜可以包東西，而竹桿在普渡時可以豎立成燈篙。桂竹竹篾用來編斗笠，筍子可以鮮吃或是曬成筍乾。我家的老井據說因為靠近竹林所以能夠長年不枯竭。竹子在我們的生活裡扮演了許多不同的角色。
Bamboo forests can be seen everywhere in our small village. Bamboo sheath is used to pack food, poles are used to as beams in houses structures,  strips are used to make farmers' hats, and shoots are eaten fresh or dried. It is said that the water in our family well is always clean and running due to the bamboo forest around the well.