My feijoa harvest for today
Today was harvest day. Our feijoa trees have been dropping the feijoas on the ground. Unfortunately many have been stung by fruit fly, but hopefully we will get some that are still okay. I took a box and got lots of feijoas from the ground, as well as picked some off the tree.
Tom had another harvest around the macadamia tree. All these nuts just from one tree! We still need to go around the other macadamia trees as well…
Macadamia harvest for today… More to come!
I sorted the macadamias again and rattled the peeled ones to see if the nuts are ready (when they rattle they can be cracked). We got a bowl full of rattley ones, so we can do some cracking over the next few days!
Tom also did a big harvest in the garden. He harvested cucumber, tomatoes and beans, and picked the corn. I blanched the peeled and cut corn and bagged and froze them. This way they will last us a while!
Today’s corn harvest prior to processing
We got a new goat today, she was lonely at her last home and in need of some friends. She got a bit more than she bargained for when she came here, because our billy goat Angus straight away got very friendly indeed!
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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!