I enjoy doing outdoor activities like visiting parks, but it is a bit cold for that at the moment. A lot of indoor activities get pretty expensive, but I have in the past found a few free building tours and similar which are really good.
I’d love to hear about things everyone else enjoy doing that don’t cost too much, and any resources you use to find activities.
Bush restoration: planting, weeding, running a small nursery, running a small charity nursery for erosion control separately. Takes up a lot of my time (a nursery is basically looking after babies).
Relatively low cost, even the nursery after some minor expenses in the bulk potting mix and fertilser. Technically, if you costed up the finished product, $100 of bulk potting mix in back of ute can make thousands of dollars of plants so the cost is a positive if you value it like that. I found all the pots/tubes by asking anyone I knew for their old ones.
And then when I plant them or give them away I feel like I’ve contributed in some way to the problems we all face. Regenerative rather than sustainable rather than degenerative. I think a lot of people should look at their lifestyles and see how many things they can put into the regenerative column and try to increase that. For example, veganism is sustainable not regenerative on an individual level. We’ve been waiting on governments (all levels of) to step up for decades and it hasn’t happened yet plus if you look at !environment not much of the news is at all good (and most of it that is posted is completely recent, I haven’t gone back in time much for older or shittier news). Private landholders aren’t really doing the job either.
Join a Bushcare or Catchment Group that take volunteers and give it a go. Sure, you might be working on some old boomer’s property but you’re benefiting the environment, not them. Be like the Lorax and speak for the things that have no voice, the plants and animals.