Greywater is a fabulous, though often underused, household resource that should be used wherever possible. Here’s a home made 3 bathtub greywater system that’s simple but effective.
If you live in an area where water is precious at certain times of year (and when is it not?) then catching, storing and using every drop you can to create a more liveable home and surrounds is an excellent idea.
At Melliodora in Victoria, the studio cottage does its best to do just that, by catching, filtering and re-assigning the greywater to useful purposes in the garden....
Mmm cannelloni – winter comfort food at it’s best: pasta stuffed with ricotta and greens, smothered in home made passata. But first, one must forage one’s weeds. So off we went.
Hey there everyone!
These last two weeks we've been putting together a few Victoria courses, due to quite a bit of asking from southern folks - stand by for Hepburn editions of Gourmet Mushroom Cultivation and Biointensive Growing, coming your way within the week.
We're also excited (quite) about our friend's upcoming Formidable Vegetable Sound System national tour, the first event of which is happening in Daylesford on Friday 2nd September! We hope to see you there.
We've been limiting our online time somewhat over the last few weeks to get a handle on preparing for spring at Melliodora... but we've been reading a lot to wind down in the evenings instead...
What we're reading this week:
The Market Gardener by Jean-Martin Fortier - to get in the vibe of good crop rotations and other spring vegetable tasks.
How to Grow More Vegetables by John Jeavons - the biointensive book that started it all. Mostly reading this just now for crop spacings and compost recipe variations.
Meme Wars by Adbusters - a few years old now, still a great read. Rise, rise.
Seaweed in the Kitchen by Fiona Bird - this little book is packed with tasty weedy ideas. Seaweed shortbread, anyone? Hells yes.
The Thrifty Forager by Alys Fowler - a very practical and useful overview of english weeds, and their edibility.
The New Wildcrafted Cuisine by Pascal Baudar - what a cracker of a book for enthusiastic foragers! Loving this one a lot.
Here's 4 snapshots from the last few weeks...
Giveaway time! Double passes to Captain Fantastic
Alrighty - we've been given a bunch of double passes to this upcoming film to pass on to you because (i can only assume) the film makers think y'all will be as relived as I am to truly confirm that Viggo Mortensen did not, infact, die of starvation and general doom in The Road after all. He's alive! And he's got a bunch of wild unschooled kids to prove it.
Viggo's probably been in a bunch of other films in-between but I've not seen any of them so let's just disregard those ones.
Anyway. Captain Fantastic. Is a film. Which comes out September 8th. Would you like to go see it for free? Here is the preview + blurb so you can check:
"Viggo Mortensen stars in Captain Fantastic, the hilarious and heartfelt journey of a father raising his six children off-the-grid in the American wilderness. Far from the modern world, Ben (Mortensen) teaches his kids survival skills and home-schools them with a challenging curriculum of science, philosophy, literature and a healthy dose of anarchy. But when tragedy strikes, the family is forced to leave their self-created paradise and re-enter society. As the kids face the perils and excitement of an unfamiliar world, Ben begins to question the choices he has made for his family." - “Triumphant and spirited.” Huffington Post
Sound good? To enter this fabulous giveaway, email giveaways@milkwood.net with the subject line Captain Fantastic and your name + mailing address. We'll choose 10 folks and send them out a double pass quick smart. Australian entires only please.
Rightio then - until next time, may your greywater be filtered, your porridge re-purposed and your wild greens be tasty...
