Permaculture Living

A frame was pulled out of the beehive and forgotten. It’s degraded (the geckos ate pieces) but you can now see the paler yellow cells where the collected pollen was stored.

Meet the Finger Lime, a fruit native to south east Queensland. It grows on a spiky bush and is also known as ‘vegetarian caviar’.

My favourite after-lunch snack to have while wandering around the farm.

How consumer spending now has a light green hue…

Congregation of the Church of the Holy Organic, let us buy.

Let us purge our closets of those sinful synthetics, purify ourselves in the flame of the soy candle at the altar of the immaculate Earth Weave rug, and let us buy, buy, buy until we are whipped into a beatific froth of free-range fulfillment.

And let us never consider the other organic option — not buying — because the new green consumer wants to consume, to be more celadon than emerald, in the right color family but muted, without all the hand-me-down baby clothes and out-of-date carpet.

Rest the rest of the Greed In the Name Of Green article.

The first (second, third) capsicums on the biggest of the lipstick capsicum plants I have growing in containers. This is the first time I’ve grown them, so I thought smaller ones would have a better chance of making it to an edible state than large supermarket-type capsicums… so far, so good.

One of my favourite parts of my permaculture course is being introduced to new food experiences. Today, the Pitaya or Pink Dragonfruit.

I’ve tried the white version before, but this was the pinkest fruit I have ever seen, more intensely coloured than a beetroot and with a milder sweetish, musky flavour. It grows not on a tree but on a cactus-like vine.