This is great! Thanks to Jo and Joe for issuing the challenge! I hope heaps of folks take it up .... and recognise it's not just about one moment in time ... preparing "a" meal or set of meals .... but about the process of getting there and the experiences we have along the way!
A bit about us. We are Maggie (aka: mum), Scott (aka: Dad), and our three adorable children from the Philippines, Lea - 8, Raymie - 6 and JJ - 4. Our team name Masarap, comes from the national language of the Philippines and means ,"yummy eat up!" Mum has been veggie gardening with mixed success for 2 years. The kids love to dig up potato's and eat the cherry tomato's .... oh yeah, and chase the chooks whenever possible. So as long as gardening is fun .... they are on board. Dad is very supportive of the whole endeavour and builds patches and clears area's .... but his main role is to provide the money so that we can do more! LOL.
Over the past 6 months we have become more and more convinced that we are actually closet "permies" ... or permaculture minded folks. We need to leave this planet in a better state than we found it and we need to be re-using and re-cycling wherever possible.
I am excited about this challenge .... it is something to focus on. At first i thought i would just try and do challenge #1: one meal. But what the heck .... in for a penny, in for a pound .... my goal is by the time winter ends .... i will have fed my family for a whole day on food from our yard!
