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25.01.2022 Cold smoking some cheese, almonds and mushrooms today.

25.01.2022 Plantain produce massive bunches and provide shelter and foraging insects and the ducks, interestingly the ducks eat the leaves after doing some research the leaves are shredded and dried as poultry food in south east Asia.

24.01.2022 Finally able to start harvesting our Yam, the weather has seen them keep growing well into the mild winter. All these tubers were between 2 and 3+kg from 80g seed tubers, no water or fertiliser what's so ever. Hardy and delicious.

24.01.2022 Beautiful taro plant with the rain we have had over summer the planet have never been as big or lush, you can see a native bee hive behind them.

22.01.2022 Muscovy ducklings 12 days old. Still a little too small to tell gender, but pretty confident that I have a few stallings. they birds will be ready for Christmas dinner. I'm very excited as its been quite a long process from buying my first birds and having the first drake die. Zorro is a much bigger drake and I think we will see good size in these ducklings.

22.01.2022 Cold smoked garlic ready to be used. Lovely colour great flavour, Amazing smell.

22.01.2022 Duck eggs, they taste better then chickens eggs and are an ethical choice for the urban farmer. No cages no sheds no mass culling of boy chicks.

20.01.2022 Looks like I might have some land. Very generous people here in Deagon.

20.01.2022 Just starting to harvest some of the Winged yam (Dioscorea alata). One season from 4 80g seed tuber in drought conditions produced these 2 to 3 kg tubers, no extra watering no fertiliser.

20.01.2022 Harvesting Dioscorea bulbifera this time of year. Nice crop, these vines trellised provide excellent shade for my ducks and more sensitive plans in the Brisbane summer.

19.01.2022 Native stingless bees out working the morel de balbis cherries this morning. Will have some great fruit production on these bushes because of all this hard work.

19.01.2022 Smoked for only a few hours but this looks pretty fine, I like the cold smoke aspect as it doesn't actually "cook" the product just imparts flavour.

18.01.2022 Harvesting some of our yams today, these all grew in a single season from aerial tubers, none were fertilised or watered as I was trying to force seed stock. Next season we are looking good to plant out a lot of winged yam.

18.01.2022 I'm thinking these may be an option to control whitefly this year. http://www.goodbugs.org.au/Good%20bugs%20avai/encarsia.html

16.01.2022 Experimenting with cold smoke today just bought my cold smoker and my goodness does it smoke, trying a few large sweet chillis and a finishing off my garlic. I'm going to have a lot of fun with this new toy.

16.01.2022 Home video of the backyard gardens.

15.01.2022 So many gardeners dont do the research. They try and grow stuff they see at the supermarket or they find some plants in the seedling section at the big shed stores and then feel very despondent when nothing does well. Often the problem is growing crops out of season for our climate. Trust me, the chain stores dont care if your garden fails. Research, then do it again, focusing specifically on your climate. Just because you can get it at the supermarket doesnt mean it can be grown here.

13.01.2022 Morelle de balbis setting fruit nicely, very vigorous plant I think with a little work these are an ideal fruit crop for the sub tropics. I can't wait to try them as a juice and a jam.

11.01.2022 Here's a couple shots of the site for our major Yam and cocoyam grow. The owners have told me that it was an old chicken farm it has fantastic soil from what I have seen so far, I can't wait to get my hands dirty. This site will look a lot different in a couple months. http://www.pozible.com/project/181234

10.01.2022 Its been some time, with a slight concept change and a new but old name. Good things never go away for long.

09.01.2022 Everyone wants to grow vegetables but no one wants to eat seasonally. Many people in urban areas are interested in sustainable small-scale city farming as a legitimate way to produce a portion of our food supply from our own backyards and community farms. Is it feasible, in the greater scheme of things, to produce all of what we eat? The most honest answer is no, however urban farming certainly has the potential to supply us with significant quantities of high quality produce... and, in the process, provide other benefits that go beyond simply feeding ourselves. There is no denying the fact that we have food convenience like no previous generation, but at what cost? Due to our supermarket culture we have lost touch with where our food comes from, and have become oblivious to the simple fact that not everything will grow all year round. Our current food system has us convinced that we can have oranges, tomatoes, and potatoes, and just about anything else you care to mention NOW. The reality is that if we are to source our food locally, much of what we eat will be unavailable to us a lot of the time. This doesnt mean we have to limit ourselves to rations of common staples, it means we have to open our eyes to a more diverse choice of foods with a focus upon crops suited to our specific environments, in my case subtropical Queensland.

08.01.2022 Ducks happily free ranging, foraging and fertilising as they go. True sustainable animal husbandry and urban farming for the subtropical gardener.

07.01.2022 OZ YAM cold smoked garlic, is smoked for 10 hours using a blend of hickory pellet and wood chip. The beauty of cold smoking is that the product is not actually cooked only infused with smoke flavour. To get the best smoke flavour out of your smoked garlic cloves roast whole leaving the skins on. A good trick is to cut the bottom off your cloves so after cooking they can be gently squeezed out of their skins whole. This saves on mess and allows you to use all of your delicious roast smoked garlic. We try to only use rojo or sometimes called creole garlic for our cold smoking, traditionally farmed in Spain and the new world this garlic has great flavour and punch even when roasted and the bulbs are always a good size (roughly 100g).

06.01.2022 September 2015, the back third of the yard has been set aside to raise free range Muscovy ducks for meat. Various grasses have been sown to provide for fodder over winter as with mustards sweet potato and various other greens. From October the first clutch of ducklings will be able to free range over this entire space with a commercial grain provided also.

06.01.2022 With a bit more free time and this early Spring weather I have started getting a few things happening in the yard. Elephant garlic trial is doing nicely and I really am looking forward to experimenting with this in the kitchen. Red onions starting to thicken, and the radish will be ready very soon. The Morelle de balbis cherries are just setting fruit and I can't wait to do some preserves with these. And just planted out my spinach leaf potato and Hawaiian sweet potato so its great to get these in the ground too. All pesticide free all organically principled all grown right here , true local food. And no I haven't forgotten about the yams they are just still dormant, won't break that until October most probably.

05.01.2022 So much interest in garlic at the moment, went out and ordered some organic certified seed garlic Will have garlic in for next year. This is Elephant or Russian garlic, grows very well in our climate apparently.

05.01.2022 Just planted 600 jalapeno seeds. I know.. it's winter but I have them in a green house and they will be ready to plant out into beds in August so I am getting the jump on the year.

04.01.2022 Don't grow lawn grow sweet potato. An ideal sprawling crop in our subtropical climate.

02.01.2022 Potting up eggplant and chillis today

02.01.2022 Here's where I am at with some garden projects late winter 2014.

02.01.2022 Spring seems to have sprung today, was very nice in the sunshine potting up some heirloom eggplants and chillis. Everything is growing really well and I hope to have quite a bit of produce on offer over the next couple months. I'm loving my "wild bramble cherries" almost as much as my native bees. I have never seen them so enthusiastic for any of my other solanum species. That pollen must be very tasty like the cherries.