The quinoa is finally ready so Mitch and Sanami spend a morning harvesting. Mitch has spent much time in Japan since 2002 and is happy to be able to practice his Japanese, impressing all of us.
Sanami is one of the MIAOWs (Melliodora Interns and Other Workers) currently working, learning and sharing with us. She has been in Australia for two months. Before Melliodora she was helping out at Birrith Birrith.
Sanami and Anna have been up to all kinds of wonderful mischief including cutting up the last of the apples to dehydrate in our fancy dehydrator ie. up on the roof.
Anna, also a MIAOW, has a PDC and has spent time at the Permaculture Research Institute. Anna used to work in Melbourne as a wind engineer where she designed wind farms and wind monitoring campaigns, but now likes to spend her time immersing herself in the sensuality of soil.
We have been harvesting the last of our corn this week. Drying some for seed and cooking
and blanching some before freezing it for use over the winter months.
We have successfully experimented cooking in a GoSun stove that was gifted to us.
We netted the fig trees, though sadly we lost kilos and kilos as it rained (hooray!) and the water penetrated them causing them to ferment on the trees. Fig chutney anyone?
We encouraged people to boycott shopping at the supermarket by setting up our table of bulk food on the same day as people come by to collect their veggie boxes.
And when we needed some quiet we sat down to the meditative task of separating grains, as a bag of flax seeds had been contaminated with wild oats.
We had a meeting with Annie Raser-Rowland and Adam Grubb to discuss their exciting new project.
We started work on rebuilding a jetty for the dam.
And before the cooler months start, we harvested the honey from the hives. 117kg so far from 7 hives.
That’s it from us for now. We hope all is deliciously sticky and sweet in your lives too.
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“117kg so far from 7 hives”…Wow, that’s superb (damn those dentists and their meddling!)
Happy to see you all enjoying the stove!
-Matt