Linda Woodrow

Four jars of pickles on a wooden surface. The pickles are yellow with mustard seeds and other spices showing as dark specks.

Mango season! First batch of green mango pickles with home grown mango and mostly homegrown spices. These are Indian style pickles in oil. Good as a cndiment to spice up a curry or dahl, or wonderful with a sharp cheddar on crackers or sourdough. I try to […]

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#Page42 You already possess the very best tool for evaluating how much salt to use - a tongue. Salt Fat Acid Heat, by Samin Nosrat.

I'll say it again: there is a hard limit to how many satellites you can have in orbit without terrible consequences, and I am quite sure we are already above that limit, mostly thanks to Starlink.

Tromboncinos are one of my favourite crops these days. I use them just like zucchinis, they're just a little firmer and less watery. Zucchini are too prone to diseases in my climate. Trombies don't seem to have any pests or dseases, they crop all summer and often overwinter in my subtropical […]

Four pale green tromboncino zucchinis, yellow flowers still attached, hanging from a trellis. Deep blue sky in the background.

For breakfast this morning, I grated one of these tromboncino, mixed with chopped spring onion, lemon thyme, salt and pepper, an egg and a spoonful of flour, shaped into patties with wet hands and fried them in a little olive oil. Put a poached egg on top […]

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Not what RFK Jr told me! He never uses fluoride and his brain is…oh, ok

A diagram locating a number of the major permaculture writers along two spectrums. The horizontal axis goes from rational at one end (Sepp Holzer) to intuitive at the other (Alana Moore). The vertical axis goes from intensive and high yielding at the top (Steve Solomon) to natural and self maintaining at the bottom ( Fukuoka)

I was cleaning up my desktop and I found this image. I had forgotten about it. It comes from David Holmgren's 'Retrosuburbia'. I'm happy to see my position - towards the rational end of the rational/intuitive spectrum (I always think you need to thoroughly […]

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Can you see them? The spiderlings? Aren't they cute! Garden pest control sorted. #permaculture #foodgardening

Two pale pink dahlias, yellow centres, on their plant.

The first Dahlias of the season. There are enough edibles with golorious flowers that I don't grow things just for flowers. Except for dahlias.

A wide view of a garden, lush greens of every hue, very blue sky, a beehive in the back corner.

Front yard garden as we head into Australian summer. Those beans on the right are 4 metres tall. Tromboncino battling it out with grapes for the pagola that shades all the east side of the house - green air conditioning for the summer. Tomatoes, capsicums […]

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The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance – Robin Wall Kimmerer As Robin Wall Kimmerer harvests serviceberries alongside the birds, she considers the ethic of reciprocity that lies at the heart of the gift economy.

The Serviceberry – Robin Wall Kimmerer
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/the-serviceberry/

Cory Doctorow's take on ... how not to prepare for the fall of civilization.

"It will be a very odd apocalypse indeed that takes down all of modern civilization except for blockchains."

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11559492329864393

What I am writing is an answer to the meme that it's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. A bricolage of short stories interspersed with doughnut economic theory essays. Making characters live in economic theory. I've thought about publishing chapter by chaper […]

#writingcommunity Please, I'd love your thoughts, insights, advice. I have two books trad published, very different, different publishers. One is a big publisher and has been in print for 30 years. But even with that, what I am writing now is so out there, I don't think a trad publisher is going […]

"South Korea, Australia’s third-biggest market for coal burned to generate electricity, announced at the Cop30 climate conference in Brazil that it was joining the “Powering Past Coal Alliance”, a group of about 60 nations and 120 sub-national governments, businesses and organisations committed […]

I live in a lovely neighbourhood. All my neighbours are interesting, kind, sane people. Except the madwoman across the road. Who came over to give me a serve about my fake furry spider hung in the carport and my basket of chocolates for the amazingly creatively costumed up kids who came calling […]

Someone has suggested LLMs are "good for writing summaries" but today I wrote a summary of all 38 chapters in "The Book I Can't Talk About Until it is Done" and this really helped me put them in order better and decide what I need to write next, cut and revise.

Just having the summary done […]

More stuff being launched by man with spazzy arms into space, rolling Kessler dice agian.

"Vandenberg Space Force Base Guardians and Airmen are scheduled to support the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 28 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit, Thursday, October 30th, between 1:06 […]

European Space Agency, not an agency known to be alarmist is ringing everything right now. There's far too much #SpaceJunk.

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/viden/teknologi/esa-slaar-alarm-skrot-og-satellitter-truer-vores-fremtid-i-rummet

https://witcheskitchen.com.au/spring-onion-pancakes/

A strawberry plant with a dozen ripe strawberries (and yes, I picked a couple before I thought to take the photo).

Strawberry season (in Australia). Yay!

A very varied mixture of garden vegies - kale and lettuce and carrots and leeks and onions and beans and broad beans and parsley among lots of others, under a mauve sky.

My front yard garden in stormy dusk light. There's only about 30 square metres (320 square feet) of bed space but it feeds us very well. #permaculture

A hanful of green beans against a background of garden plants.

In the last week we've gone from peas every meal to beans every meal. Seasons turn. #permaculture #retrosuburbia #fromthegarden

A hand holding a large orange carrot and two fat leeks.

Glorious carrots and leeks this time of year (in subtropical part of Australia). #permaculture #fromthegarden

A big white plastic table with 13 sets of silicon muffin moulds, all different colours, filled with pale coloured soap mix. About 130 muffin shaped soap bars in the moulds.

Making soap in time for Christmas. Olive, coconut and macadamia oils, calendula, lemon myrtle, luffa.

We have a tradition in my community of making a quilt (or really a play mat) for new babies. We set a theme and people make a square (none of us real quilters) and we set a day to sew up together with tramming between squares, some wadding and backing. The […]

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Saag with sourdough naan bread for dinner, so good. This time of year (it's spring in Australia), we eat a whole big bunch of silver beet (chard) most days. Saag or spanakopita or quiche or gozlemes or mahshi selek. But I think saag is my favourite. #permaculture #retrosuburbia #fromthegarden […]

STICK IT ON YOUR FRIDGE, GIVE THANKS EVERY DAY. #auspol

Who’s Flirting With Your Children? An Empty Machine With No Mind, No Empathy, No Care

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