Give a day to a work party fixing the land
“A day of unpaid digging for strangers sounds like a chore you would invent excuses to skip. By the afternoon there is a cleared path or a planted bank that was not there this morning, and your hands made part of it.”
The Recipe
- Find a conservation or path-clearing work party running this month and put your name down for the day.
- Get to the meeting point for the start, before the tools are handed out.
- Take the job nobody else grabbed, even if it is the dull one.
- Work through the first hour where your body wants to stop.
- Eat with the group at the break and ask what this place looked like before they started coming.
- Stay for the last stretch, when the light goes and the day's work becomes visible all at once.
- Walk the length of what you cleared or built before you leave.
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