celebration

Ooooby is an acronym for Out Of Our Own Back Yards. It is an initiative that is all about inspiring, encouraging and enabling people to grow their own food. It has an online presence in the form of a social network site, and now a physical presence in the form of an Ooooby Store.

We took over the failing garden centre on January 1st, and beginning on Friday the 2nd, spent the last week running as we prepared for the Ooooby Store open day on Saturday.

There was much to be done.

The support from within the community and around the country was nothing short of amazing! I said to Pete Russell at one point early in the week, that we are in spirit with this project, it is going to happen with or without us. People kept showing up just at the right time to complete some part of the picture, bring a resource that was needed, or offer to bring more energy to the project. » Read more