A visit, goats, chickens, eggs and yoghurt cheese
We had a lovely visit from Howard Story from Wwoof Asia and the Permaculture Institute Asia. It was nice to connect, we had some tea and later on a vegetarian lunch together, as Howard’s friend Dan was vegetarian. Homegrown pumpkin and choko stirfry, with buckwheat and pumpkin savoury muffins, rice and homegrown cucumber. Both Howard and Dan had a go at cream separating and Tom took them for a tour through the garden, it was a nice day.
Letting the goats into their paddock
We were a bit late letting the goats out into their paddock due to the visit, and the chickens were late getting out as well. Angus, our billy goat, was keen to get into the chook yard when I opened their door (he can squeeze through their opening…), he is always on the lookout to scavenge more food from somewhere (even though he has plenty where he is…). So I had to take him by the collar to take him up to the main goat area, where I let them all out into the paddock.
The chooks getting into their forage
I make the goats a container full of forage each in the afternoon, and today there was quite a bit of left overs (I had picked too much, maybe on purpose 😉 ) So the bits left over I gave to the chickens, who enjoyed getting into it.
I am attempting to make yoghurt cheese, I scooped out the curd today and currently it is draining the whey. I am experimenting a bit here, I will let you know how I go with it! I prepared 2 sourdough loaves and one sourdough fruit loaf, which will be fermenting until tomorrow night when it will get baked.
I also sold some of my ladies’ eggs today!
A dozen eggs from my girls…
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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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