Ngarrindjeri Elder, Aunty Ellen Trevorrow and the indefatigable Jelina Haines are great friends and co-researchers in the field of Indigenous Knowledge.
Jelina is the author of the research paper ‘Video ethnographic documentation of stories and cultural practices with Indigenous Elders’ and Aunty Ellen is co-author.
They have been accepted by the organisers of the ASIST&T conference in Canada to…
We’ll meet here at the end of the bridge and sit on the lions
We’ll its time for the Woodstock of Gawler amateur herbalism, Food Underfoot!
On Sept 23rd at 11ish, I’ll be taking a foraging walk through Henry Chenoweth Reserve in Gawler where we will take a look at the seasonal, local, food and medicinal herbs available.
Cut Leaf Mint (Prosanthera incisa) is one of our favourite Native plants.
This plant is commonly called Cut Leaf Mint, Native Thyme (not to be confused with Ocimum tenuiflorum or the closely related P. rotundifolia which also have that same common name) or Native Mint (I know, there’s a couple of those too…).
We love to grow it because of its strong odour, even just passing a hand through a bush…
I went with our friend Annie to recreate at Mt. Pleasant. recreate is an amazing place where artists reuse, recycle and repurpose all kinds of stuff into useful, inspirational or just quirky art
They also have a very interesting range of plants for sale, with local herbalists Margaret Connington and Bev Lane being contributors to the collection.
After a couple of months sitting forgotten and neglected in the weather, our Bokashi bin lid got several cracks in it.
That’s a bit of a disaster for the microbes that do the work for us, they’re anaerobic and don’t like fresh air and sunlight (they’re the teenagers of the microbes world).
The result is usually a green mild, such as the one you can see in the picture below. Seeing this means one…
The ground’s starting to warm up a little (or did it ever get cold this year?) and its wet as far down as I can shove my hand. That means it’s time to start planting.
We’ve been itching for this because this year, the garden will be in full swing. Nearly everything is where we want it and growing well (mostly) so it’s time to put the last of the…
Dolores, our new chook, laid her first egg today. In fact, she was so enthusiastic that she laid two (though probably not at once…).
They are coloured blue because she’s got Araucana somewhere in her heritage. They’re not quite the tone in the pic, that’s a bit intense because of when and where I took it.
With this happening within a day of switching to his chook food mix, our supplier, Ray, is…
