Merrylands

From Despair to Empowerment

Food Scraps, Black Gold

Jacqueline has bags of food scraps and Ling has the land… Let's make compost and connecting of the loses with what someone has not got (garden), and someone else has (food scraps).

Jacqueline and Laura take their food scraps across the road to Ling's back yard garden from their flat; Jacqueline shares her feelings "…from disillusioned, disfunction, despaired and sadness about wasting natural rare gifts—food scraps. My feelings have transformed to joy in connecting, co-creating, participating, in acceptance, in belonging and in picking fresh and eating fresh from the garden."

Jacqueline, Tom, Laura and Ling are co-creating and co-dreaming the future of waste streams while transforming feelings. "We cannot change the world, but we certainly can take part in helping with waste transforming into food production. Our society call food scraps "waste" and we honouring it as black gold (compost). What we are doing is essential for our co-existing with this planet!"

Pictured: Ling and Jacqueline

Photographer: Ling Halbert

Community group participants: Ling, Laura, Jacqueline and Tom