The baby quails are hatching! They are so tiny and vulnerable, those eggs are the size of a cherry, you wonder how they ever survive. #retrosuburbia #permaculture
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My #OptOut #SpendingStrike post today is a bit ironic. We get fish heads and frames from the cleaning table at the boat ramp and slow cook them using solar power, with rice and garden veg to feed our dog. This weekend it was a huge Spanish Mackerel, a fortnight's food for her, and not enough recycled plastic takeaway containers to freeze it in. My partner wanted to buy some - cheap, easy - and it took a lot of resolve to hold out and go beg and borrow enough plastic to store our free fish.
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Harvesting the first of the season's pumpkins, so it's pumpkin and parmesan patties with lemon thyme and spring onions, a recipe fast enough for breakfast on a workday. (Grated pumpkin, finly chpped herbs, little bit of grated cheese, egg, spoonful of any kind of flour - I used teff, stir and fry). Vey delicious and almost all #FromTheGarden #retrosuburbia #permaculture
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Is there a way within the fediverse to create something similar to a Facebook group? I have several groups I belong to wanting to leave FB. #fediversehelp
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Latest bunch of bananas hanging on our little back verandah. Cavendish this time. They all tend to ripen at once, and for a few weeks we eat lots, give lots away, make banana bread for the freezer for the kids' school lunches, put lots in the freezer for making banana icecream for after school snacks for all
the neighbourhood kids. Then wait for the next bunch. There's usually not much of a wait lately. #permaculture #retrosuburbia
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[#]WritersCoffeeClub 24/1: How long is the longest story you’ve ever written? Can you link to it? My solarpunk/hopepunk novel. Near-future realist climate fiction, way too many of its plotlines appearing in the news. https://www.lindawoodrow.com/
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I don't 100% agree with this, but the 90% I agree with is insightful. https://alexsteffen.substack.com/p/why-i-remain-optimistic
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My #OptOut #SpendingStrike post today is about what we in Australia call "mates rates". It means, you know someone who can do the job or lend you the tools, give you advice, teach you how to do it, for cash or barter or 'you owe me one' or even 'what goes around comes around'. I'm bad at it - I'm a massive introvert, but my partner chats to neighbours, dog walkers, anyone, lets them know what he has and can do, finds out what they have and can do, none of it transactional, relationship building.
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Breakfast. Homemade Greek yoghurt with homegrown banana, passionfruit, gudgin syrup. #FromTheGarden #retrosuburbia #permaculture
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Nice little haul of mushrooms from our mushroom logs today. What shall I cook with them? #fromthegarden #recipes
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If you're in Victoria (Au) in April, I'm on the program, with author of "The Rewilding" Donna Cameron, in a talk about imaginingour way into degrowth and sustainability in a rapidly collapsing world. Blurb says "Learn how they integrated the actualities of off-grid living within page-turning plot lines grounded in realities that are sadly all too possible. Why is fiction a more powerful vehicle to help people imagine another kind of life?" Should be great fun. #solarpunk https://www.offgridevent.com.au/talksprogram
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Ripe ladyfingers we're eating now (but the rest have ripened all at once, so banana cake time), ripening Thai (I think) bananas and the silver bag in the background is a huge bunch of Cavs just about ready. Two more bunches of ladyfingers, one Cav and one Phillipino coming on. Feel rich. #permaculture #retrosuburbia
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My #OptOut #SpendingStrike post today is about line drying clothes. A friend tells me that in US this was just not done, would draw complaints from neighbours when she lived in US 30 years ago. Is this still so? I love the smell of line dried sheets, and sun is such a good disinfectant, and driers are such energy sucking short lived appliances. It's a wet day here, but still, the clothes will at worst get another rinse in sweet smelling, soft rain water.
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Today's #SpendingStrike #OptOut post - Guerilla gardening. We have a wide stormwater easement & a side lane next to little suburban block. I pot up things that are easy & free to propagate - seeds (eg avocados, mangoes, tamarind, coffee), cuttings (mulberries, dragon fruit, guavas), pups (eg bananas, pineapples) & plant them. It's public land, & there's (welcomed) public harvesting, but almost no vandalism or outright theft. I get breakfast & a sense of food security.
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Today's #SpendingStrike #OptOut post - I've been thinking about https://mastodon.social/@MelissaBenyon@climatejustice.social 's post about repair culture. The only "thing" I've seen for ages that I'd love to buy is the MNT Reform Next laptop. I can't justify it - the computer I'm writing this on still has a good bit of life left, but it's how I wish technology (and everything else) was built -future proof, modular, made to last, made to be repairable.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next
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Front garden oath this summer morning. (woops, path)
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Today's #SpendingStrike #OptOut thought is about is about the irony of spending money to save the work of homemade, when the work is actually the fun and joy and point. I was thinking about knitting a dishcloth, and how foolish that would feel when disposible dishcloths cost next to nothing. Then I remembered this post from years ago, and how good those kind of repetitive craft activities are for creating thinking time. Making as its own reward, not something to avoid. https://witcheskitchen.com.au/things-born-of-mindfulness/
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My #OptOut #SpendingStrike post today is, I bought a new (to me) black Tshirt this week. Kmart etc have such cheap Tshirts, $3. How do they make them for that? It's wrong! But, it does make you feel silly op shopping for Tshirts. Till you find a Dannii Minogue, beautifully soft, all cotton, lovely quality, perfect condition, also $3, and the $3 goes to Lifeline. Op shops here are so overwhelmed lots aren't even accepting donations. We don't need to make more clothes. Not for generations.
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@Lozwood Great to see you here! A good way to get started is to fill in your profile a bit, especially with hashtags for the things you're interested in - people search for hashtags to find common interests and that's how they find you. Search for hashtags and follow people you find who look interesting. Follow lots of people - you can make lists or mute or filter later. Because there's no algorithm, your feed will be very empty till you start telling it what you want to see.
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https://open.substack.com/pub/thelastfarm/p/will-this-be-a-wake-up-call
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