Green banana flour. This has been a quest of mine for a little while. My coastal subtropical climate is all wrong for wheat or rice or most of the staple grain crops that anchor our Western diet. I can’t even really follow Irish tradition (and Peruvian before that) and use potatoes as the calorie base – potatoes are a seasonal treat here rather than a year-long storing staple. It’s easy…
This is almost two kilos of ginger. At supermarket prices, that’s nearly $60 worth, and mine is organically grown, fresh and crisp and took really…
This is my newest garden bed. And see beside it there? That’s the pile of broken concrete I had to dig out. Or half of…
How long does it take? The short answer – if you know what you are doing and don’t have too many false starts, not long…
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.
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 other types of sea traffic. How do we prepare for when those ships stop, or, if we are smarter than I think we collectively are, when they start using fuel that is clean and…
The Bureau of Meteorology says that it’s likely that this will be an El Niño year, drier and warmer. That is, it says, on top of the drier and warmer conditions that climate change predicts anyhow for much of Australia, especially the south east. It brings with it an increased risk of extreme heat. And my ‘470’ research came to the same conclusion as this week’s article in The Conversation – Australia’s…