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Quails

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 quail eggs are very effective against hayfever, and possibly, probably other allergies too.

A map of the world showing very complex and detailed view of Walker Circulation Anomaly, Vertical Motion Anomaly, Sea Level Pressure Anomaly, Precipitation Amomaly, SST Anomaly, Sea-ice Extent, Surface Wind Anomaly, Rossby-Wave Train Path, and Oceanic Heat Transport.

What 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, (making it relevant not just to Darwin and far northern Australia but to Queensland and northern NSW too), a lower frequency of strong El Niño and more La Niña – which is good news for the eastern states…

Cone flowers, five of them, bright pink circle of petals around an orange centre. The background is leaves. We can just make out an insect sitting on the underside of one.

Garden 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 cutting for the vase on the kitchen table, compost materials, food and medicinals for the chooks and quails, food and medicinals for us – everything has to do at least two or three of those. More…

Picking 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 make the yoghurt with about 10 steps of food miles. There is something very decadent about dinner shopping like this.