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New bike!
Here’s a new challenge…restoring an electric bike! The plan is to run it from our DIY solar. Free transport! I’ve wanted one for a while but the $$$ have been unreachable. Our friends Vicky and Derek gave us a nearly complete one and lots of spare parts. It should be good fun. Ill keep posting…
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We’re in the Edible Gardens project
The day before yesterday, we got an exciting email. Our application to participate in the Edible Gardens project was approved. This project looks at urban agriculture, more specifically, the amount of food production that comes from participating gardens and how much water was used to grow it. Stage 2, where we’re at, includes giving details…
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Those chooks!
Chooks! Who can understand them? Not me!
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Olives in salt
This year we got so many big olives from Riverdell Spiritual Centre that we could experiment with ways to preserve them. We tried plain water, brine and dry salt and apple cider vinegar. Of all these, I found that I prefer those done in dry salt, their taste just appeals to me. The salt also…
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Down with the bubble wrap!
‘Did you break your windows” ‘Why have you got bubble wrap on your windows?’ ‘What the hell are you up to now, Haines?’ These have been the three most common questions that visitors have asked over the last few months upon seeing the bubble wrap on the inside of the windows. We’d heard…
Ligaya Garden
a little garden near Gawler
