Thursday, September 3, 2015

Bountiful harvest

We have been very slack with posting lately. We have been berating ourselves and this morning I decided to come upstairs to the computer and start a new post. Instead I found the below draft so I decided to publish this one and get cracking on another. The last few months have been the driest any of the locals can remember and we have started to despair. Trev placed a stick on the edge of the dam and said 'I hope it doesn't get much lower. Then another stick further in as the water dropped and...

Thursday, January 1, 2015

new stuff

Luffa (or Loofa) We're always exploring new things. Toni was given a few seeds for a luffa plant which she'd never encounted. Undeterred off she went and planted them.  She now has heaps of her own home-grown luffas, what a thing. Use it like a scourer in the kitchen, a loofa in the shower and when it wears out, throw it in the compost. Skin removed and dried, then you just cut them to whatever size suits From the end Rosella Jam Another one we're trialing is the Rosella...