Citrus harvest and cream separating
Today I went into the food forest to harvest some lemonades. They were ready to be harvested, unfortunately I only harvested from one tree; Tom told me later there was another tree in the food forest that needed harvesting too! I also harvested limes from our lime trees. It seems to be lime season for everyone around here, so it looks like we won’t be able to sell any. I am going to have to come up with a lime pickle recipe, make some cleaning products and possibly some vinegar, as we still have another lime tree coming on with lots of fruit!
Limes and lemonades, the ones on the right and in my hand are limes.
Maungaraeeda’s cream separator
I also did the cream separation today, the separator is a “golden oldy”, about 60 years old found on Gumtree a number of years ago. Apparently it had been sitting in an old dairy farm barn for years until the son of the family decided to sell it. I heated the milk by adding hot water to it (so the cream is more runny and separates more easily), and turned the handle to get (and keep!) the process happening. It is hard work, but the end result is lovely thick cream, and of course my favourite after more processing: butter!
Cream!
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Author: Zaia Kendall
Zaia grew up in a family of musicians in Holland, and has a background in top sport (snow skiing) and web development and design. She co-founded the PRI Luganville and PRI Sunshine Coast Inc (now PermEco Inc.) with Tom, and runs the “invisible structures”, like finances, business administration, website design and maintenance, writes articles and records and edits videos. She assists Tom in running the Kendall Permaculture Farm and supervising other volunteers. She is an active member of several musical projects and bands, involved in community music and runs percussion and marimba workshops, is the percussion leader for the Woodford Folk Festival People’s Orchestra and composes as well as plays music. She is passionate about community music and loves seeing people discover that they can play!
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Amazing find on Gumtree! And brilliant news about the limes, even if you can’t sell them as they are too easily.