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Mal’s at the Sustainable Living Festival
Well, it looks like I’ll be at the Sustainable Living Festival at Pioneer Park in Gawler at about 10.30. It’ll be an early rise for me on a Sunday, but I promise to eat a healthy brekky and be there on time. What an I doing there? I’ll be rabbiting on about edible weeds and…
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Milk Kefir cheese
Making kefir into cheese.
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Giving the garden a mind of its own
It looks like a mess and there is a little irony in the above pic. The irony is that I’m putting in sensors and all kinds of electronic bits so that our garden can monitor itself and communicate with me via my smartphone. In that sense, its like giving it its own nervous system, using…
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Strange clouds over Gawler
We’ve been getting some interesting cloud patterns over Gawler this year. Or is it just that I’m aware of them this time? I’m sure they’re all natural phenomena, but who knows? Water is a strange thing. I’ve decided to chronicle them for readers…here’s the first…
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Quick reflector test
It’s an ideal day to test the parabolic reflector made from an old Foxtel satellite dish (thanks Rupert!). I wanted to give it a quick test before calibrating it (a post on that is coming). It’s a beautiful 21° in the garden at the moment but on the paper at the end of the support…

