Sustainbility Mondays: the house full of guests edition

I've had a house full of family for the past week, which has made this week's sustainability Monday post late (I dropped my visitors off at the airport this morning). Considering we had a busy holidaying household this week, I think that some of the following isn't bad!

1. Plant Something -

• Struck some rosemary cuttings.
  

2. Harvest something - (including buying local food)

• As much local cool-climate fruit as we could find to buy from farmgates, much to the delight of the visiting Queenslanders
  
• Veg from the farmers market and roadside stalls, particularly the last of the summer's broadbeans, some more garlic and local unheated honey
  
• Wild apples and blackberries from the roadside near my place
  

3. Preserve something -

• Blackberry jam and bottled blackberries. None of which made it into my pantry, preferring a life in the warmth of Queensland instead.
  

4. Waste Not (reducing wastage in all areas)

• After having a house full of people we only had a single shopping's bag worth of rubbish for the week. Buying locally really reduces food packaging which is part of the challenge.
  

5. Want Not (preparing for shortage situations)

• Nothing this week unless you count the absconding jam
  

6. Build Community Food Systems –

• Supporting local people who are growing food.
  

7. Eat the Food –

• Every meal we ate was made of locally bought or foraged food, which made us happy.
  

8. What I bought:

• Nothing this week, aside from an awful lot of petrol. There was a lot of touring around!
• My visitors bought local jams and honeys to take home.