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24.01.2022 A long but worthwhile read on community-building as a critical path to urgent and deep climate action. Or as I like to say, when the shit really hits the fan, we only have each other. Especially our physical neighbours. https://arena.org.au/theres-no-time-left-not-to-do-everyth/

22.01.2022 There's a quoll on the lounge! Not my lounge, but shared by a friend down the road (country measurement). https://youtu.be/DtdhXZ6IcU4

22.01.2022 Yup. Good question to ask those people who say they think that racism doesn't exist.

17.01.2022 New Moon greetings Current mood - blossoming with new ideas . After a health enforced stop, it feels like the time is here to grow and move again. There's a reshuffling of projects going on and I'll be shifting focus from what I had planned (2020's most useless word) to be creating. It will be good.... Big. Bold. Better. . Art available. Message for details. See more

17.01.2022 This is going to be my go-to answer when people bring up population and climate action. 'Too many people' is often a thinly veneered way of agitating for racism or white supremacy.

16.01.2022 Full moon greetings from the beginning of spring Time to acquire some more egg layers. Off I went to the local rural supplies store to collect the pullets I'd put in an order for the other week. It was kinda odd though because when I turned up the place was deserted. Usually for these pre-ordered chickens there is a barely-organised line-up of people with boxes and cages and a semi trailer full of live chooks to be dispensed, all shuffling and squawking. The chooks are qu...iet in comparison to the people. But nothing. Checking in the store raised a giggle from everyone, myself included; I was a week early. It's not like me to be muddle-headed like that, but hey, it's life and it happens. So I am ready with my cash and box and starter feed. I see you sitting there in next week chookies! Duncan's Poultry

14.01.2022 So this happened... Thanks @ilovebelloshire

14.01.2022 JANUARY 26TH CEREMONY AND GATHERING ALL WELCOME! SMOKING CEREMONY... DIDJ AND SONG OCHRE AND WASH IN THE RIVER GUMBAYNGIRR COUNTRY WELCOMES EVERYONE --- Huge thank you to Uncle Robbo for organising this healing event that brought people together. Not glossing over the massacres and the wrong way Australia was started. Coming together to walk together. ---- All the good photos by @sourcedsalvagestudio . #gumbaynggirr #alwayswasalwayswillbe #changethedate #invasionday #australiaday #healingceremony #walkingtogether #bellingen

13.01.2022 New moon greetings There's usually a quiet and simple inspiration for each moon greeting that arrives when I slow down and pay attention to the moments going on. Looking, nothing. Looking, nothing. Where was it? Invisibly all around me as it turned out. The seasonal spring winds of change are here, blustering through every afternoon. Stand out in the wind and feel blown clean of what you don't need, or annoyed by it's insistence at removing things.

12.01.2022 Yes. Direct action works. Shame the community had to blockade to be able to have a conversation heard about their safety.

12.01.2022 TOMORROW, Sunday all day Koalas day of action. Social media storm - join in. Pop up protests everwhere. https://m.facebook.com/events/3100554956666945

11.01.2022 The ants are farmers . Artwork available. Ink & watercolour. Message if interested. . When you are out wandering through your garden keep an eye out for lines of ants marching up and down a plant. This is a classic sign of an aphid or scale infestation. If you haven’t spotted the plague of pests on the plant yet, you’ve gotten in early.... What are aphids and scale? They are small animals that feed on plant sap. Think of them as the vampires or leeches for the plant world. They are about the size range of midges to large fleas. Scale are oval and flat and tend to adhere to the plant and look like innocent bumps. They are often black or a rust colour. Aphids have small legs and usually no wings. They are often green or black. But both come in a huge variety of colours white, yellow, green, orange, red, brown, grey, black. As you can probably imagine, one or two of these tiny sap sucking insects isn’t a problem. But en masse they will bleed a plant to death. What has this got to do with ants? Ants are farmers of aphids and scale. I kid you not. It gets weirder. They pick them up and carry them to juicy feeding spots. And no they don’t eat them once they are fattened. Both aphids and scale shit a sugar syrup. True! Ants love to eat this. Which is why they make sure their herd are well fed and protected from predators like ladybirds. And when the ants realise a particular plant is keeping their ‘honeydew’ producers happily munching they line up their army and carry the sapsuckers to the feast. How to get rid of them?.... More at https://www.wherefishsing.com/bello-f/the-ants-are-farmers/

10.01.2022 In the world as it currently is, food gardening is indeed revolutionary.

09.01.2022 I wish Australia would grow up so that action like this wasn't necessary. But as we're here, I'm supporting W&J in standing their ground.

09.01.2022 Save our koalas from extinction. Don't let them become the next Tassie Tiger. Koalas need trees. Old trees, they can live in. These take at least 30 years to get to the stage they are large enough. Quit cutting them down in koala habitat. Demand real surveys for koalas before approving logging. Reassess an area after bushfire!! Common sense please. Koalas need their habitat uncrossed by roads. Cars and koalas are a fatal mix. Koalas need domestic dogs kept away. New ho...using estates backing onto koala habitat means dead koalas. Death by a thousand cuts. Every decision, "it's just this one ... logging coupe / area of land cleared / one extra road" is a choice, a vote, for extinction of our national icon. Koala habitat needs to prioritise koalas. Unless you're ok with being part of making them the next thylacine? By the time people in power woke up to how serious the problem was, it was waaaay too late. Gladys Berejiklian Matt Kean MP Rob Stokes Sussan Ley MP Melinda Pavey The Great Koala National Park #SaveOurKoalasGladys #StopExtinction ..

08.01.2022 How do we make change? There's no one way. Put your name to this political bill to bring about action on climate change. Most petitions aren't worth your time, this one is. Show your support. https://climateactnow.com.au/ The Climate Act is a proposed law to ensure the long-term safety, security and prosperity of Australia by achieving Net Zero emissions by 2050. Zali Steggall OAM MP will table the Act to parliament on Monday November 9th 2020.

08.01.2022 New chooks did indeed arrive. 1. Copy-paste chooks! 2. Flame chook, look at that red! Once there were six, which were slowly whittled down by old age to one. ... As spring arrived, so did the time to top up the flock. These are pullets, about 20 weeks old and almost ready to lay. Chooks are brutal with each other. This is probably where hen-pecked came from. They do not welcome newcomers and can peck the bottom of their pecking order to death. This includes a smaller, younger or sick chook. Community note, don't be like chickens! However, the last chook standing only gave one of the new chooks one firm peck and then they were all off scratching together. I think she appreciated the company. If she hadn't, at least the chook yard is plenty big enough for keeping a distance. See more

08.01.2022 Australian artist studio. Kangaroo joey pouch apron Australian working kelpie flat out on couch Bright sunshine

07.01.2022 The jasmine sprawling all over my verandah says spring is here. It's my first flower of the warmer season and it won't be long until the house is filled with its scent. I love it! No need for incense. Never lasts long enough though.

06.01.2022 "This culture that I've been born into is beginning to die." "What's our responsibility?" "What would an elder look like now?" https://youtu.be/MvTGt33Qj1o

06.01.2022 For the bees When I first arrived in Bellingen I had the strange experience of watching my zucchinis flower and wither, flower and wither and if they began to set fruit, it would rot. This was strange as zucchinis in my experience were prolific and looked after themselves. Eventually I figured out I was watching a pollination problem and out I went each morning with a small dry paintbrush to collect pollen from one zucchini flower and transfer it to another. That got old really quickly. For the following season I made sure I had bees. Honey bees, sugar bag bees, solitary bees, night moths and good bugs. Help out your garden helpers by planting food for them. Full article: https://www.wherefishsing.com/bello-food-gard/for-the-bees/

05.01.2022 Goosebumps. Clearly I needed to hear this as only yesterday I was saying to a friend how angry I feel at my ancestors for leaving such a worldwide epic mess to clean up.

05.01.2022 A call to push Australia Post to formally recognise traditional place names, including consulting with Elders. A partial agreement so far but they need to know the public are watching and want this. Petition update Go to www.change.org/traditionalplacename to sign and share Reposted from @place_names_in_addresses

04.01.2022 Ah, that's more like it! Growing the edible plants that are already in the area and growing well. It is a silly state of affairs that this idea is so radical. They are often far more nutritious than the imports too!

04.01.2022 Dying of laughter. The ex-graffiti remover who loved a piece so much that he coated it so it couldn't be removed. Kudos to the artist too. Hilarious shenanigans.

02.01.2022 We're a massive sunny country As bright as bright can be We all enjoy our sunshine and sustainability Our pollies say, "Renewables? Impossibility!" But it's a MASSIVE sunny country, bloody HUGE sunny country... Let's put solar in every street!!! #FundOurFutureNotGas

02.01.2022 Good. A reprieve for the moment. It's long overdue that our decision makers change their colonial attitude to Aboriginal culture and heritage. Huge thanks to those who put their bodies in the way and slowed the destruction.

01.01.2022 Don't stop at potatoes Artwork available, ink & watercolour. Message if interested. . Published today in the weekly newsletter by ilovebelloshire... The best times to plant potatoes in this area are after the first full moon (and before the new moon) in January and August. Well peoples, we just had a full moon last week. It was a beauty. And though I can barely believe it, how did we get to August already? But wait, there's more. More starchy root vegetables that is. Don't stop at potatoes. I know we all know them because they're a supermarket staple, but they are by no means the only potato-like food that grows well here. Actually, a lot of the following are far more suited to here than potatoes. Tatties prefer a climate like Dorrigo, Scotland, NZ and the Andes which is where they're from. The warmth and humidity here aren't ideal for them. Let's start softly... Full article & more food gardening articles: https://www.wherefishsing.com/art-eve/bello-food-gardening/ We cover sweet potato, oka, African yams, cassava, taro, arrowroot, Jerusalem artichoke, yacon, water chestnuts, lotus and yam daisy.