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Snake Bean Baked Beans

Are you wondering what to do with dried snake beans? Why not try this snake bean baked beans slow cooker recipe?

Mango & Passionfruit Muffins

A delicious mango muffin recipe for using up the mango glut

Mango Jam Recipe

Too many mangoes? why not try this recipe for Mango Jam to free up your mango glut!

Frozen Mango Milk Bar Recipe

Looking for a cooling mango recipe for a hot summers day? Look no further

9 Zero Waste Organic Processing Techniques

One of the permaculture principles centres around the idea of producing no waste, or alternately, finding uses for waste byproducts. Overall it makes sense both environmentally and financially to try and process your own waste into something usuable. Under that idea I’m going to highlight the pros and cons of each style of handling organic waste…

Handmade Bread Recipe

Living a little bit rurally where we do can make it a bit tricky to have access to fresh affordable food staples, while I won’t bore you with my life story and how the discovery of this bread recipe is a game changer/life saver/… Insert whatever stereotypical food blog trope here… I will say I’ve…

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I've been meaning to complete a homemade bug hotel for some time but I finally got around to it. Made entirely of bamboo and some wire this hotel has a range of hole sizes. We actually noticed tiny drill holes in our roadside stall got a *lot* of attention so I replicated that around the outside of the large bamboo piece. Can't wait to see when it gets some attention 😍

Sad to say we lost this little chick yesterday. We heard no commotion and did a big search in the rain to no avail. However this morning we found the culprit poking it's head out of the besa block wall in the chicken run. Needless to say it was collected and taken on a journey to the other side of our property. Common advice is to move them a few miles away however I also read moving them more than 500m away lessens their chance of survival to 50/50. The other side of our property isn't that far away but hopefully far enough this snake won't enjoy any more birds (as its probably the same snake that snuck into our house and ate our budgie!)

Out of all the caterpillars looks like one will make it. This was one of the teeny tiny caterpillars I rescued. The rest made it to chrysalis stage then turned out like the 2nd image 👉 this is a chrysalis that's been taken over by a tachinid fly. Tachinid flies are parasitoid flies that lay their eggs in a caterpillar and hijack them in the chrysalis stage pupating within the chrysalis themselves. Handy when you have cabbage moth and the like, but ours are pretty ruthless towards the monarch butterflies in our area.

As promised, the Snake Bean Baked Bean slow cooker recipe is now on my blog and it is delicious! I also used homegrown rosemary and garlic, and hopefully in the future I will be able to also use homegrown tomatoes, onions and honey 🍅 🍯

After learning you can use dry snake beans as pulses... Next experiment is to cook some of these up 😋

Can't grow full sized tomatoes if I try... Self seeded ones seem to thrive on my neglect though 😂 I didn't even realise these were growing until about 2 weeks ago. I've not watered them, there are weeds all around... literally all I have done is bag them up after I found them as the fruit flies got the 1st ripe one.

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