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.
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…
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.
Breakfast this morning – homemade Greek yoghurt with the first of the season’s mangoes, the first of the season’s peaches, and the thing I am excited about at the moment, Gudgin, or Ooray, or Davidson’s plum powder sprinkles.
First batch of Ooray jam for the season. I’ve written about Ooray before, but I’ve called it Davidson’s plum. Ooray is the name in some aboriginal languages of Davidsonia pruriens, but the name in Bundjalung language of northern NSW for Davidsonia johnsonii is Gudjin. But so much indigenous knowledge has been lost that if I call it Gudjin jam, almost nobody will know what I mean.