New Book about Lamma Island!

I was so excited to discover a new book was recently published about Lamma Island. It is called "Lamma Story" I rushed out as soon as I knew where to buy it at the B&B Restaurant in Yung Shue Wan and bought my own copy. When I began to read it, I was surprised to find it state that Lamma needed to have more development (more houses and industries). I was especially worried when I found that the man who gave all the money to publish the book was the same man who wants to build many hotels on Lamma Island. This worries me a lot because the people who live here love the clean natural environment and dont want it to be busier with more tourists, cars and polution. So, I wrote a book review and got it published in the lammazine, the community newsletter. Take a look if you're interested!

Back to the garden in 2008!

Well, it's been a while since I chatted with you in this blog. Since my last posting, the Tai Peng Community Garden has grown for a whole season and been harvested. It was pretty bare at first, as you can see in this picture from our first meeting. I think the thing I love most about the garden is how much fun the kids have. Check out my youngest son, Tristan and his new girlfriend! I think they have more fun than the adults!
Denis, one of the members of the garden, loves to take a lot of photos and you can take a look here. In my garden this year I'm growing eggplant, sweet potatoes, ginger, carrots, Swiss Chard and parsely. Of all the seeds I've planted, so far the only ones to sprout were the Swiss Chard. By the way, I've added lots of links to Wikipedia pages explaining things you might not know about like Swiss Chard. When you go to the site, you will see a languages column on the left side of the page. If you scroll down to the last language you will be able to click on 中文 and see the Chinese version of the same page. This might help you a bit :-)