You don't need to be old to share your skills and knowledge, nor old to be 'elder' like. In some cultures it takes a lifetimes work to become an elder in others maybe a little less: a body of knowledge to share. There are Primary Schools, High Schools, Universities...
On a recent bike ride I was overjoyed to see the efforts people were making in an attempt to protect their fruit harvest. With possums, white cockatoos and Rosella's all competing for food in the neighbourhood people of all ages were going to extreme lengths to...
Over the past two months the kitchen garden has kept us in an engaging momentum. With various ingredients maturing, frequent harvesting inspires frequent cooking. With friends and recipe books there is never a shortage of ideas. Carolina's kale and breadcrumbs,...
Now on the way to school or on the way home, Ahlia picks berries for her treat. Boysenberry flowers..Fruit beginnings. Harvest time.
Abundantly in the garden you grow. Beautiful shaped fruit on an evergreen shrub. I wish I loved you so I could eat you...but no matter how beautiful you look I have yet to desire you... but as the chickens enjoy you, to them I feed you.
The Kalamata olives are ripe. We have a very small tree. It has been crowded greedily near Pandorea jasminoides 'Lady Di' and some Sedum flowers. And yet it is productive. I will harvest and bathe them until they are tasty.
A very beautiful harvest of Kaki fruit from my small tree in Reservoir. I grew up with Kaki trees in Italy, and remember thinking they were amazing. Tomato like in appearance but so vastly different in flavour. The large seeds rolled in my mouth like boiled lollies...