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23.01.2022 Imagine if we had a food system that actually produced wholesome food. Imagine if it produced that food in a way that restored the land. Imagine if we could eat every meal knowing these few simple things: What it is we’re eating. Where it came from. How it found its way to our table. And what it really cost. If that was the reality, then every meal would have the potential to be a perfect meal. We would not need to go hunting for our connection to our food and the web of lif...e that produces it. We would no longer need any reminding that we eat by the grace of nature, not industry, and that what we’re eating is never anything more or less than the body of the world. I don’t want to have to forage every meal. Most people don’t want to learn to garden or hunt. But we can change the way we make and get our food so that it becomes food againsomething that feeds our bodies and our souls. Imagine it: Every meal would connect us to the joy of living and the wonder of nature. Every meal would be like saying grace. @michael.pollan The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (one of my favourite books!!) See more

23.01.2022 Dahlias straight from the garden I love how they provide beautiful blooms throughout summer and autumn, unlike other flowers (sorry tulips!) that give you such a short season. Easy wins! Now's the time to get your dahlia tubers in the ground

22.01.2022 Obsessed with bulbs at the moment... so little effort, such reward! These were some of my harvest last spring. Dad and I got heaps more in the ground over the weekend, but I’m so tempted to keep expanding. What’s everyone’s favourite??

22.01.2022 It feels like just yesterday it was spring, full of promise and excitement. Where did the time go!?! But reflecting back, I achieved a lot this summer! I set up my greenhouse, building and filling the raised beds (lots of wheelbarrow trips!), installed my own watering system (which I knew NOTHING about prior to starting!), saved a swarm of bees and successfully set up my second hive, set up permanent beds for Jerusalem artichokes, walking onions, perennial leaks, garlic and o...thers, added 6 new citrus trees to the patch, grew and harvested tomatoes, chillis, eggplants, potatoes, strawberries, lettuce, rocket, broccoli, cucumbers, garlic, beetroot, rocket, kale, edible flowers, raspberries, apples, cherries and much more, set up my courtyard with fire pit, dug our new drainage trenches and back filled with scoria (by hand!), created a pond and grew pickle rush and watercress (and tadpoles!), harvested 20kgs of honey, sheered and cared for Kath and kim the alpacas, looked after the four Silkies in my berry cage, managed the 11 ‘big’ chickens in the main coop (who gift us with 3 dozen eggs a week!) and reorganised my garden shed (that was probably the biggest job!). But of course couldn’t have done a quarter of that without all the friends and family that have kindly given me their time, their patience and their muscle over this last six months... there’s a lot of you!! Thank you, thank you, thank you for making my dream a reality now, I’ll enjoy the dahlias just a little bit longer! See more

21.01.2022 Frosty mornings in the veggie patch, and Kath up the back waiting for her breakfast! (I have two veggie patches... one undercover with the chickens and one separate for my perennials like rhubarb, asparagus, artichokes, citrus etc - don’t want the chickens ruining those!)

21.01.2022 I might not be able to travel, but my books can ‘Everyday Thermo Cooking’ now available throughout France, in FRENCH! #proudaspunch

20.01.2022 I love the saying there’s always flowers for those that wish to see them... and I think the hellebore encapsulates that so perfectly! While everything around looks dull and grey at the moment, you go under the canopy and these beauties are there #hellebores #helleboreseason #secretgarden

20.01.2022 The dahlia patch They're perennial flowers, meaning you plant once and every year you get flowers... and every year more and more flowers (although the downside is the dahlia patch just looks like bare earth in winter!). As much as I'm more than happy to replant my annual veggies each year, I'm not that keen on annual flowers just because of the workload (except the edible ones!). But I think the dahlia is well worth the effort / reward ratio. If you're keen, make a note to buy some seeds or tubers in spring. I've got more varieties planted, but they've been a little slower to flower... so stay tuned for more dahlia spam!

19.01.2022 KEEP CALM AND BAKE BREAD! There's never been a better time - stay home, avoid the shops and bake it yourself. Simply invest in a bag of bakers flour and a packet of instant yeast and you're good to go. Not only will you be doing your bit, but you'll also be eating the most delicious bread still warm from the oven AND you'll be avoiding all those nasty chemicals added to commercial bread. The average supermarket loaf has 27 ingredients! Mine has just four.

19.01.2022 And the good news is our famous silicone ice cream moulds are BACK IN STOCK! These look AMAZING @mrsthermolicious well done!! #Repost @mrsthermolicious with @make_repost These were such a hit tonight! Magnums! Homemade! #thermomix #icecream #magnumicecream #meltedchocolate @alycealexandra_ @alycealexandracookbooks @thermomixaus #manualcooking #tm6 #yum #iscreamyouscreamweallscreamforicecream #mrsthermolicious

18.01.2022 Japanese maples bringing bright pops of red to a deep winter. I cut these branches and use them as decoration in the house once all the leaves have fallen - don’t put in water, just in a vase, they last for years once they’re dried! And super beautiful colour if you’re interested comment below and I’ll take some photos indoors xx

18.01.2022 Gardening is the only time in my day that I really get present and out of my head ... couldn’t recommend it more highly for anxious types. Get your hands in soil and connect to the earth

18.01.2022 My berry cage, where I grow raspberries, blackberries, loganberries , tayberries, strawberries and Passionfruit, while also housing my ‘softer natured’ chickens... the girls that can’t hack it in with the main rowdy lot (mainly Silkies and my half-blind chicken Hermione). I tie up the canes so that the chickens can’t get to them (but they get to enjoy any fallen fruit!) and I also fence off around the base of the plants so the new canes can shoot up ready for next years fruit without being nibbled by the chickens. Works wonders - the chickens are happy with sun in winter and shade in summer, and I never have to think about weeding or fertilising, as the chickens do both! Harmony

17.01.2022 Edible flowers! Nasturtiums, cornflowers and calendula. Now’s the time to plant seeds inside, ready to plant out in spring This was a sample from last summer’s collection... the pink cornflowers are definitely a favourite

17.01.2022 So grateful we can still COOK in isolation! Meet my latest project, ‘Alyce’s Heavy Rotation’ - recipes frequenting my kitchen, in the hope they frequent yours too 100-page digital cookbook available from https://www.alycealexandra.com//17/my-brand-new-ebook-is-h

16.01.2022 Sometimes I don’t want to give the chickens access to the entire veggie room, but I want them to clean up and fertilise a particular veggie bed. So I wrap a puppy pen around that bed and place a couple of the girls inside for a few hours - they have the time of their life eating the bolted greens, weeds and bugs ! Works really well (although I don’t put my best flyers in as they’d be over that fence in no time!) #gardenecosystem

16.01.2022 Check out this little girl

16.01.2022 Kath protectively looking out for her little friend Pip. Foxes are a massive (and very real) threat to chickens in Victoria, so before getting chickens think very carefully about fox protection, even in the city!! This cannot be overstated. If you’ve got the space (I know most people won’t), alpacas are brilliant security guards - they’re super territorial and foxes are scared of them. So Kath and Kim roam freely around the entire chicken coop, and so far, never had a fox try anything. Harmony (I also have a shit-load of wire mesh as you can see - I would never rely solely on the alpacas! Especially when it comes to breeds like silkies which sleep low to the ground).

16.01.2022 The single greatest lesson the garden teaches is that our relationship to the planet need not be zero-sum, and that as long as the sun still shines and people still can plan and plant, think and do, we can, if we bother to try, find ways to provide for ourselves without diminishing the world. Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma

15.01.2022 Sunday hive checks the ladies have come through winter so strong! (And yes, I can say ladies as there’s never any male bees in the hive over winter! They’re seen as unnecessary and a drain on the food source so are kicked out at the end of autumn... poor guys)

15.01.2022 My propagation station... growing plants for free! Most of my veggies are grown from seeds, flowers, fruit trees, succulents and herbs from cuttings and the rhubarb and aloe from dividing the plants. It’s a little addictive once you start (my 10m of greenhouse shelving is choc-full!). But frankly, the first 5 years of growing I only used seedlings/plants purchased from the nursery... and they’re brilliant. So if you’re starting out, I highly recommend buying seedlings... you focus on the growing, leave the propagation to the experts. Maximum results !

15.01.2022 A few people have asked what I recommend for beekeeping equipment when starting out... so here’s all my thoughts, and the lessons I’ve learnt the hard way over the last couple of years! If you’re interested in getting your own bees, spring is absolutely the time to do it, so get prepared with your equipment NOW! Let me know what other videos you would find useful

14.01.2022 First time splitting my #rhubarb! They were some absolute monster crowns (about 5 years old). Two plants turned into 14!! Worth doing to propagate new plants, but also I’ve read it keeps your plants super productive. Now’s the time of year to do it, just as plants are waking up coming into spring @ Mount Macedon, Victoria

13.01.2022 Had a few questions about my strawberry system! This is a large @mrstackyaustralia pot and I love it for the strawberries! Keeps them off the ground, saves space and water Holds 20 plants. Also much easier to see runners! I really like the LARGE size, I personally find the medium a bit small (there’s a medium one right next to it, hard to see but it’s significantly smaller). Bring on the strawberries!

13.01.2022 My garlic with a heavy layer of frost! These babies planted in April, ready in November. You’ve got to commit a fair bit of time for garlic, but I find it really easy to grow! Will heavily mulch this bed with used straw from the chicken house over the coming months for even bigger bulbs!

12.01.2022 This crazy flower turns into a PASSIONFRUIT ! How cool is that The passionfruit vine is an evergreen perennial, and I find providing it's sheltered from any frost and gets enough water it's a pretty low maintenance plant... it looks beautiful all year round and it provides HEAPS of delicious fruit once it's 2+ years old. So it'd say on the effort / reward ratio it scores high! It needs something to climb on, and the walls of my chicken coop are perfect... it then also provides shade for the chickens (I try and make everything in my garden serve multiple purposes). Maybe there's a fence in your garden it would be perfect to cover?

12.01.2022 2005 Kokoda Trail. I might have been the slowest hiker in the entire group, but I got there! The Papuans were truly amazing, and have my thoughts and respect, especially today p.s can you pick me

11.01.2022 Not that I need any excuse to talk about one of my favourite topics, but... today is World Bee Day! So let's talk about one of the reasons why bees are SO important, and it has absolutely nothing to do with honey. Seven of the nine crops that provide at least half the vitamin C to the human population depend on bee pollination. No bees, not enough vitamin C - and in times like this, the importance of vitamin C cannot be overstated. Look after bees, so you can look after yours...elf!! I fully appreciate that not everyone should or could become a backyard beekeeper, but what is MORE important is that we grow food for bees - they'll travel up to 10kms for food, so literally wherever you are you can feed bees. 10 perennial plants that feed bees - Rosemary Lavender Anise Hyssop Catmint Comfrey Echiums Banksias Raspberries and blueberries Citrus trees Red flowering gum I think I've got 9/10 in my garden! Save this list and refer back next time you're at the nursery xx See more

10.01.2022 Me and all my mates enjoying the last of the autumn leaves This is the most dressed up I’ve been all month... and I’m in gumboots But did do my makeup, and temporarily felt back to normal ! It’s always the little things. Thanks for the @ellen.babauskis

10.01.2022 New art photo by me, printed and framed from scratch by my dad memories of our Iceland trip 2018 - might never get back there, but so glad for all the amazing memories @tisshauser @torygregory @claire.friedmann @pbooth__ @lizclarke1

10.01.2022 Hi and welcome! A bit about me, and what to expect from this page

09.01.2022 I couldn't think of a more perfect (or direct!) way to say "I love you" this V-Day than with one of my sister Loryn's prints (can also be a gift card!). Only $6.95, whack it in a frame and you've nailed it. Link in bio to shop https://www.alycealexandra.com/thermomix-products

09.01.2022 Half the summer veggie patch... beans, cucumbers, silverbeet, edible cornflowers, violas nasturtiums and calendula, raspberries, sweet peas, a young grapevine and lettuces under horticultural fleece (I find it keeps the leaves nice and tender!).

09.01.2022 I absolutely adore my chickens, and I’m so happy with the home that I’ve created for them. While my setup may be bigger than most, the principles I talk about in this video apply to all good chicken coops - large and small. Come on a tour with me

09.01.2022 Bursting with happiness seeing my ladies out in force yesterday!! Only five days ago it was snowing on their hive . Clearly they’ve not just managed to survive, but thrive (winter is such a hard time for bees, especially up here!). So I sat on the grass and enjoyed the sunshine with them @alycesediblegarden

08.01.2022 Filled with joy every time I see these two running towards mehopefully they fill you with a little joy too #kathandkim #alpacasofinstagram

08.01.2022 Walking back to the house from my 7.30am gardening stint filling up chicken feeders, washing water bowls and raking up alpaca poo (all things that I happily do while watching the animals frolic around me), and saw this beauty glistening with morning dew - the smoke bush, hanging onto the last of it’s leaves before winter sets in. What a treat

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08.01.2022 Night out of the house! Even did my eyebrows for this one Proper margaritas complete with salt rim and dehydrated lime slices perfectly assembled by @lorynjanene, made easy thanks to @mr.consistent_ mixers #notsponsoredjustawesome

06.01.2022 Chicken City - my little resistance plot in the decentalisation and deindustrialisation of the food system. Love Michael Pollan's thoughts... "The last few weeks I’ve been watching as the food chain we all depend on begins to buckle and break under the pressure of the pandemic: we’re seeing empty shelves in grocery stores, an alarming number of food workers taking ill, meatpacking plants closing. In a new piece out yesterday in the New York Review of Books, The Sickness in ...Our Food Supply, I explore all that the novel coronavirus has revealed about our food systemand our diet. That’s because the problems we’re seeing are not limited to the way we produce and distribute foodthey also show up in our plates. There’s solid evidence now that three of the biggest risk factors for getting a serious case of Covid-19 are obesity, hypertension, and type-2 diabetes: the chronic diseases linked to an inflammatory Western diet. Even when the American food system is working normally, supplying the supermarkets and drive-thrus with abundant and cheap calories, it is killing usslowly in normal times, swiftly at times like this. The essay shows why the pandemic is, willy-nilly, making a strong case for decentralizing and de-industrializing the food system to the extent we can. For at the same time the industrial food chain is beginning to fail, local food economies are thriving, showing us the way." Read the full article here: https://buff.ly/3ctnCXL (video from March 2020)

06.01.2022 Today's garden haul

04.01.2022 And the beetroots are out of the ground! Morgan from @3000acres sold me on beetroots (I’d never prioritised them before) as you can leave them in the ground as long as you like and harvest when desired, unlike so many other things that need to be harvested straight away! And you can also harvest the tops like chard while the beetroots still in the ground - two crops in one!

03.01.2022 New project... #vegan sticky date puddings plates by the beautiful @castletoncollective and @kinfolkandco photography and styling by the very talented @lorynjanene

03.01.2022 Trentham Falls

02.01.2022 Bulbs - plant once, ignore forever after that and get beautiful blooms once a year. I think it’s a pretty good deal! Autumn is the time to plant, but right now is time to enjoy the bounty

01.01.2022 For all those that asked... my japanese maple branches all over the house! (Dad asked if any trees were left outside ). Just don’t put them in water, you actually want them to dry out. Free decoration, if you can get your hands on some @ Mount Macedon, Victoria

01.01.2022 A rare sight seeing Kath and Kim not glued to each other’s sides.. maybe they’re taking after us humans