Gallery
Abundance in our top garden
A collection of photos taken here on the property. A mix of outdoor, indoor, courses, people and animals at PRI Sunshine Coast!
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- Tahlea with her Chocolate “Manure”cake…
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- Some of our PDC students and volunteers, chilling in the student space after breakfast.
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- Full Moon Dam extremely full, with the creek roaring in the background.
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- Our road floods on both sides of our property.
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- Propping up the rocks to level
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- The rocks bedded in, awaiting final cement pour.
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- Our bathroom’s rock wall and newly laid rock floor
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- A faulty tap to fix
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- There they are all tied up
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- And the two cows are led to the yard
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- Best wishes!!
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- Teddy standing (or should I say hanging) guard by the entrance to the vegie garden against the bush turkeys
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- Ground cover is starting to come up!!
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- Dahl, with potato bake and a green garden salad with a nasturtium and avocado dressing.
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- Newborn goats, just standing, about 1 hour old
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- First use of the new dam!
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- Compacting the dam walls
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- Soil, fungal based
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- In the kitchen garden
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- Green abundance
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- Home grown fruit salad, muesli and homemade yoghurt
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- PDC students August 2012
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- Standing on wobbly legs, first standing at around 1 hour old…
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- More green abundance, love the kale!
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- Look at this feast!! Meal for PDC students August 2012
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- Found it! First suckle…
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- Double choc cake with creammmmmm….
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- Bubbling pro-biotic
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- Covered compost heap
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- Burning bone for the pro-biotic and bio-fertiliser
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- Watering the compost
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- Early morning visitors: we have already attracted a couple of wild ducks who love having their early morning swim in Full Moon Dam!
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- The finished dam with reflection of the banana trees…
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- Healthy plants in healthy soil
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- Beans with Epazote, avocado, scrambled eggs with cream, leek and kale, cooked tomatoes, home made sausages and toast with homemade raw cultured butter.
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- Roast Veg salad with Citrus Avocado dressing
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- Miki’s birthday cake…
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- Chef Tracey and her bounty for the day.
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- Group photo with Lumia (our student Miki’s daughter), Tracey and Lucia (our kitchen crew)
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- The free ranging chickens
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- Making the 18 day compost as part of the PDC
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- Lucia, Marlon and Tracey
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- Linseed crackers with duck liver pate, brie and camembert
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- Our harvest for today; we only pick what we will eat that day or if it needs to be picked so it doesn’t go to waste.
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- The Ecopot we use for our hotpots. We will also use this for some of our students’ meals.
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- Hearty beef and veg soup, a winter treasure!
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- A citrus green smoothie: a wonderful vitamin C boost to counter the winter colds…
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- Fruiting tamarillo, a pretty sight! Fruits ripen at various rates, so colours vary.
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- Pumpkin and beef curry on the left, mildly spice coconut Taro on the right and a dollop of ChokoChilli sauce…
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- A swale planted out after being dug.
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- Look at this beautiful compost, ready to use after 18 days, made from just sawdust and chook (chicken) manure….
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- Temperature rising over 60 degrees C
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- Fresh turmeric, the dried powder, capsules with the dried powder and dehyrated turmeric pieces in the big jar.
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- Sweet pumpkin mash with a dollop of whipped cream
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- A cooked GF loaf, straight from the oven!
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- The bread rising on the shelf above our wood stove in winter. In summer any warm spot will do.
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- A fresh Gluten Free loaf
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- Group photo on the last day!
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- Turning the 18 day hot compost during the PDC course
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- In the teaching space
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- The finished result! New rock wall is in the swale to the right of the pic, rock wall yet to be built in swale on left of pic
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- Scott starting the garden bed cleanup.
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- The finished rock wall, with sawdust paths.
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- Thanks Fede and Julie, for your hard work on the wall!
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- Our prepared sausage casings in brine
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- Turning the 18 day compost (see article)
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- Halfway building the 18 day compost
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- Kitchen garden swale, with vetiver grass and sweet potato
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- Our propagation area
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- Bean harvest for the day
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- Preserving, fermenting and dehydrating
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- Superfood pudding with whipped raw cream
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- Our choko vine, growing up the water tank
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- Our choko harvest with the vine in the background.
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- Bunya nut pancakes, avocado chocolate mousse, raw cream and a little dollop of yakon & passionfruit jam
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- King parrot stealing our bananas 😉
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- Harvest of Yakon
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- 3108 gram sweet potato
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- PRI-A Interns with Tom and Zaia
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- Part of the vegie garden
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- Start of the Food Forest
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- Local river rock swale wall
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- A-frame level demonstration
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, records and edits videos and also organises the cooking and the kitchen on site. She assists Tom in running the Kendall Permaculture Farm and supervising other volunteers. She also specialises in consulting and advice for smaller scale properties (up to 5 acres). She has researched and studied nutrition and health for 20+ years, has a certificate in Nutrition and continues to study by research, reading and daily observation. 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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