The garden has started to take a bit more form this season. In the early days it was a couple of plants placed in specific areas with everything else filling in between. Now that the mallees have been removed and the garden is receiving so much more sunlight year round than it use to, I … Continue reading Finding Form & Function
I have the dehydrator belting out jerky at the moment. Its the first time I've made it. Looks and smells ok so far. Also busy with drying herbs for mixes, chocolate zucchini cake, spinach pie, home-made ice-cream and nurturing the kefir (which is doing really well with the current weather). Going to get a broth … Continue reading Home Goods
People are frequently delighted when they wander through our garden to find Maiki and Jaz scurrying around beneath bushes and around pots. They are free to roam the garden and really do not stray anymore than probably five metres max, if that. They choose whether they want to sleep in a little grotto area built … Continue reading Free Range Guinea Pigs
I've grown water chestnuts over the last couple of years. Nurtured from just a few to now enough corms to fill a couple of plastic tubs. This year they are doing well. After relocating them from their little pots that had been submerged in the pond to the plastic tubs they took off. This was … Continue reading Water Chestnuts
Following on from the post for backyard edibles and also backyard garden blogs, I have discovered another backyard gardeners blog called Zucchini Island.This is just what I wrote about some days ago. Others recording their journey in the backyard growing edibles for their consumption. And they are very real journeys. After reading some of Jason's … Continue reading The Zucchini Island Self-sufficiency Challenge
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