Saturday, 28 February 2009

nutmeg preserve

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Nutmeg harvest is in full swing - again: the nutmeg seems to fruit every 2-3 months, and sporadically between times. It's a pretty tree,...
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Monday, 23 February 2009

farm, what farm?

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It seems that most of my posts lately have been about what happens indoors rather than what goes on in the outside, green part of the farm. ...
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Wednesday, 18 February 2009

cacao

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I'm roasting cacao for granola bars. It's a fun job, the hard stone sound of dried bean against cast iron skillet, the growing scent...
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Thursday, 12 February 2009

ginger scones

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Having made my crystallized ginger I could make my scones. Delicious served warm with cream or butter. 1 cup wholewheat flour 1 cup white fl...

ginger candy

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It's time for the ginger harvest: the green shoots are dying back and the rhizomes are pushing up through the soil. Ginger is easy and f...
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Tuesday, 10 February 2009

kitchen farm

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While the farmer is off doing his thing, today working on a landslide area, I’m working in my kitchen farm, tending all my various shoots, m...
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Monday, 9 February 2009

view from the deck, and from the kitchen sink

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Friday, 6 February 2009

reforestation project

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We're working on a reforestation project on the Pacific coast. It's a relatively small project, planting 3,000 trees, but it feels g...

weather

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We returned from the Pacific coast to a big storm. Rain lashing down overflowing the rivers and the roads, causing landslides and power outa...
Friday, 30 January 2009

rabo de mono

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This is a local fern with fiddlehead shoots that are quite delicious, tasting just like asparagus. While the indigenous people around here k...
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domestic

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You know, it’s a funny thing. I go through phases like everyone else. And right now I notice I’m in a very domestic phase. I’m sure it has s...

farm chores

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Working with Fukuoka’s natural farming method really keeps farm chores to a minimum. With no tilling, no spraying, no pruning we are left w...

fermentation fervour

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I've been making tempeh for a few weeks now and selling it at the stall at the farmers' market, and to a local restaurant. And of co...
Tuesday, 27 January 2009

flea-ing the house

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After a morning researching medicinal plants for a friend and client, Global Creek , it was time for a break. Just in time as the kitchen wa...
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Monday, 26 January 2009

poison dart frog

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Sunday, 18 January 2009

coffee with sloth

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Last night, just at sundown we heard a female sloth calling for a mate, it's an eery sound, more like a hawk than a mammal. She was in a...