Learning the biodigester routine and banana flour
Tom is leaving tomorrow to teach a PDC in Jordan and I will be running the farm! So for the past couple of days I have been feeding the biodigester and getting more involved with the cow routines. This morning I shoveled the poop from the cows’ night yard into buckets and after breakfast this manure was mixed with water and fed to the biodigester. A process, surprisingly for many perhaps, not unpleasant. Cow manure does not really stink, and mixing the manure with water is much like kitchen work… And because I feed the biodigester I can do my kitchen work!
Feeding the biogas biodigester
Speaking of kitchen work, I had to make some banana flour today. Green bananas make an awesome flour that bakes nice loaves, cakes and biscuits without the need for eggs (great when chooks are off the lay). We cut the skin off the green bananas, sliced the bananas and put them in the dehydrator for around 48 hours. Then I put them through the Vitamix to grind them into a fine flour. We had a yummy savoury banana flour loaf with our soup tonight!
Making banana flour from dried green bananas
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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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