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Apart from being simply a gorgeous photo, there's a heart-warming tale behind this image.
While some people the country over resorted to panic-buying toilet paper in the early stages of the pandemic, one Victorian family opted for "panic gardening".
Virginia Murnane and her kids - eight-year-old Mabel and six-year-old Ellis - spent the first edition of lockdown planting and growing all things green in their backyard.
"When the first lockdown happened, the world was going a bit crazy with everyone panic shopping at the supermarket," Miss Murnane said. "So I decided we should do some panic gardening and grow our own veggies."
And so they did. It's just that they were way more successful than perhaps they first imagined. Plus, combined with the lack of usual visitors to their Warrnambool home, they found they were swamped by herbs and vegetables.
What to do? Give them away, of course. And the first batch was gone with the hour as passers-by snapped up the homegrown produce.
So the circle of goodness is complete. And, at a time when we've managed to sometime stray from the "be kind" mantra that was so popular not so long ago.
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