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…
There’s been a lot of interest in this course. It might (I’m hoping it will), like the Australian Permaculture Convergence last year, sell out really…
Kyogle Readers and Writers Festival was wonderful fun, and Byron Book Room with Donna M Cameron. But the best of all was the Bellingen Library…
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.
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…
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, deliciousness. And a step into a blue zone.