Home Improvement
Last year, this was my water chestnut pond. And it worked so well. In this little suburban garden I have so little space that everything has to be miniature, but the discipline of making every...
View ArticleIn Glorious Excess
Look at my silver beet! It won't be like that for much longer. Pretty soon it will think about going to seed. But what made me think about this post was not just the silver beet begging for a photo but...
View ArticleWhen the ships stop, what then?
Isn't it stunning? This is the current position of all the cargo vessels in the world. Just cargo vessels - I've set the filter to remove the passenger ships, the tankers, the fishing vessels, all the...
View ArticleOoray Jam, or Gudjin Jam, or if you must, Davidson’s Plum Jam
First batch of Ooray jam for the season. I've written about Ooray before, but I've called it Davidson's plum. Ooray is the name in some aboriginal languages of Davidsonia pruriens, but the name in...
View ArticleGudgin (or Ooray) Sprinkles
Breakfast this morning - homemade Greek yoghurt with the first of the season's mangoes, the first of the season's peaches, and the thing I am excited about at the moment, Gudgin, or Ooray, or...
View ArticlePicking dinner
Rosa bianca eggplant, beets, carrots, sweet peppers, button squash roasted with lots of oregano, and steamed green beans, topped with a garlic yoghurt dressing, all of it bar the powdered milk used to...
View ArticleGarden Pharmacy – Echinacea
They're such a pretty flower. Nothing in my garden has just one purpose - this little suburban garden is too small to fit nectar sources for pest predators, pollen sources for pollinators, flowers for...
View ArticleBeans and the Blue Zones
A mix of black-eyed peas, black seeded snake beans and brown seeded snake beans, all home grown and harvested today, about to go in the slow cooker. Protein, fibre, complex carbs, versatility,...
View ArticleWhat happens when the AMOC collapses?
The best informed guesses I can find about what we Australians might need to deal with in direct climate effects are hotter weather, stronger cyclones, a monsoonal rain pattern that moves south,...
View ArticleQuails
Aren't they the cutest little things? They're day old quail chicks, and we're finding they're nicely suited to raising in suburbia. Besides being prolific egg layers, there's some good science that...
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