Amid the chaos of motherhood and everyday life, two mums find solace and healing in their gardens.
In the red soil of her outback garden, a heavily pregnant Sammy Anderson lovingly tends to an oasis of neatly planted tomatoes, cucumbers and zucchinis.
A few streets away, fellow Broken Hill gardener Molly Clemens and her four-year-old daughter Emmie are also getting their hands dirty in a veggie patch they have grown from scratch. The young mums are not alone in their desire to grow their own food, with four in 10 Australians growing some of their own produce, according to a report released last month byWhile the most common reason for growing food among survey respondents was for better access to healthy food , for Sammy and Molly, their respective gardens offered a place of solitude, safety and freedom.
"So I decided to try lettuce because you can't over water lettuce, so I started with six rows of lettuce.""The more that grew the more I felt things improved in my life, it was nice to look at what I was accomplishing in my front yard," she said.Emmie enjoys harvesting the strawberries in the family's front garden.The happy toddler had become very ill and inexplicably began to throw up blood.
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