04/09/2026
As you might know by now I love being outside in nature, surrounded by its wonder and beauty. It affects me deeply to see that my love of nature isn’t shared by everyone.
When something isn’t respected there is minimal or no regard for its wellbeing. This is can be seen clearly from my weekly bin routine, when I take our household rubbish bins to the road side for collection.
My habit is to walk along our property’s frontage and collect the rubbish thrown out of passing car windows, blown out of the back of utes or blown (from who know where) into the long grass which traps it until I can rescue it.
As you can see from this week’s haul, there is a random variety of waste that should not end up by the side of a road, particularly since we are blessed with a functioning waste collection system.
I ask myself “why!?!” do people do this? All I can conclude is that they just don’t care. This is why the education I do with a local kindergarten is so important to me. If we teach our children the wonder of the natural world, then they can travel the pathway of respecting it and hopefully, deeply care for it. When one understands the value of something, respect can follow.
With the Practical Ecoliteracy program, I hope to reveal the wonder of nature and essential connection, we as people, have with it. This looks like learning about composting, worm farming, growing food, flowers and native plants. Simple things, but powerful learning lessons. Our future depends upon how much our children are taught to care.
Thank you Bayview Kindergarten for the opportunity to do this important work with the children, our future…it also happens to be a lot of fun too 😅
