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Next nice harvest will be gramichama. A small, subtropical tree with fruit that tastes just like cherries. And such pretty fruit! #fromthegarden #permaculture #retrosuburbia

Next nice harvest will be gramichama. A small, subtropical tree with fruit that tastes just like cherries. And such pretty fruit! #fromthegarden #permaculture #retrosuburbia

#permaculture #retrosuburbia #fromthegarden #2fruits5veg Midummer breakfast - hom…

It’s Permaculture day at the old homestead. Long awaited!
“If you choose not to have joy in the snow, you will have less joy in your life, but still the same amount of snow.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh

Green banana flour. This was made from Cavendish bananas, green but fully rounded out, sliced about 5mm thick and dried at 58C (dehydrator using solar power) for about 8 hours, then milled in my new (to me) op shop Vitamix. It's a lovely fine silky flour. It takes about 40 Cavs to make a kilo of flour, so well worth it. #permaculture

For breakfast this morning, I grated one of these tromboncino, mixed with chopped spring onion, lemon thyme, salt and pepper, an egg and a spoonful of flour, shaped into patties with wet hands and fried them in a little olive oil. Put a poached egg on top with some cherry tomatoes on the side. So good. #permaculture

Can you see them? The spiderlings? Aren't they cute! Garden pest control sorted. #permaculture #foodgardening

The dragonfruit are flowering! #permaculture #retrosuburbia

I was cleaning up my desktop and I found this image. I had forgotten about it. It is a Brenna Quinlan image and comes from David Holmgren's 'Retrosuburbia'. I'm happy to see my position - towards the rational end of the rational/intuitive spectrum (I always think you need to thoroughly, skeptically question your own beliefs, lest you find wishful thinking or prejudices amongst them), and midway along the "leave nature do it's thing/use design to keep your elbows in&…