A collection of photos taken here on the property. A mix of outdoor, indoor, courses, people and animals at PRI Sunshine Coast!
Tahlea with her Chocolate “Manure”cake…
Some of our PDC students and volunteers, chilling in the student space after breakfast.
Full Moon Dam extremely full, with the creek roaring in the background.
Our road floods on both sides of our property.
Propping up the rocks to level
The rocks bedded in, awaiting final cement pour.
Our bathroom’s rock wall and newly laid rock floor
A faulty tap to fix
There they are all tied up
And the two cows are led to the yard
Best wishes!!
Teddy standing (or should I say hanging) guard by the entrance to the vegie garden against the bush turkeys
Ground cover is starting to come up!!
Dahl, with potato bake and a green garden salad with a nasturtium and avocado dressing.
Newborn goats, just standing, about 1 hour old
First use of the new dam!
Compacting the dam walls
Soil, fungal based
In the kitchen garden
Green abundance
Home grown fruit salad, muesli and homemade yoghurt
PDC students August 2012
Standing on wobbly legs, first standing at around 1 hour old…
More green abundance, love the kale!
Look at this feast!! Meal for PDC students August 2012
Found it! First suckle…
Double choc cake with creammmmmm….
Bubbling pro-biotic
Covered compost heap
Burning bone for the pro-biotic and bio-fertiliser
Watering the compost
Early morning visitors: we have already attracted a couple of wild ducks who love having their early morning swim in Full Moon Dam!
The finished dam with reflection of the banana trees…
Healthy plants in healthy soil
Beans with Epazote, avocado, scrambled eggs with cream, leek and kale, cooked tomatoes, home made sausages and toast with homemade raw cultured butter.
Roast Veg salad with Citrus Avocado dressing
Miki’s birthday cake…
Chef Tracey and her bounty for the day.
Group photo with Lumia (our student Miki’s daughter), Tracey and Lucia (our kitchen crew)
The free ranging chickens
Making the 18 day compost as part of the PDC
Lucia, Marlon and Tracey
Linseed crackers with duck liver pate, brie and camembert
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.
The Ecopot we use for our hotpots. We will also use this for some of our students’ meals.
Hearty beef and veg soup, a winter treasure!
A citrus green smoothie: a wonderful vitamin C boost to counter the winter colds…
Fruiting tamarillo, a pretty sight! Fruits ripen at various rates, so colours vary.
Pumpkin and beef curry on the left, mildly spice coconut Taro on the right and a dollop of ChokoChilli sauce…
A swale planted out after being dug.
Look at this beautiful compost, ready to use after 18 days, made from just sawdust and chook (chicken) manure….
Temperature rising over 60 degrees C
Fresh turmeric, the dried powder, capsules with the dried powder and dehyrated turmeric pieces in the big jar.
Sweet pumpkin mash with a dollop of whipped cream
A cooked GF loaf, straight from the oven!
The bread rising on the shelf above our wood stove in winter. In summer any warm spot will do.
A fresh Gluten Free loaf
Group photo on the last day!
Turning the 18 day hot compost during the PDC course
In the teaching space
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
Scott starting the garden bed cleanup.
The finished rock wall, with sawdust paths.
Thanks Fede and Julie, for your hard work on the wall!
Our prepared sausage casings in brine
Turning the 18 day compost (see article)
Halfway building the 18 day compost
Kitchen garden swale, with vetiver grass and sweet potato
Our propagation area
Bean harvest for the day
Preserving, fermenting and dehydrating
Superfood pudding with whipped raw cream
Our choko vine, growing up the water tank
Our choko harvest with the vine in the background.
Bunya nut pancakes, avocado chocolate mousse, raw cream and a little dollop of yakon & passionfruit jam
King parrot stealing our bananas 😉
Harvest of Yakon
3108 gram sweet potato
PRI-A Interns with Tom and Zaia
Part of the vegie garden
Start of the Food Forest
Local river rock swale wall
A-frame level demonstration
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