Syntropic Life

12/05/2026

BLANKET CLEARING OF LANTANA, Why I think its a poor practice? I jusf saw a post for someone who cleared all their lantana, probable suggested by local authorities. Guesss what happenend in this now empty piece of land? The plants that came up where 10 times worse. Long tap roots, harder to remove, more costs.

This is why clearing lantana without having a plan is so risky. Its an all or nothing approach. Lantana is a great mulch when broken down, syntropic style, an amazing seed story for bringing up other natives, provides excellent habitat and great compsost.

We just clear small sections where require for land regen or planted through it or in small pockets. Clear something in bulk because its classed as a w**d is non sensical. Every plant has a purpose, some times if green waste and its stored energy goes back into the soil. No indegious tribes cleared without purpose or reason. Even burnoffs had a system not blanket clearing.

Who gives us the advice to clear it all? What harm was it doing? What did you have planned for the area? What chemicals do you use that go back into the soil to achieve this outcome?

Think of these factors first, then create a strategy. It will save you time, money, costs and energy, just saying...🙏

11/05/2026

Still relevant today and now more than ever 🙏😍.

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29/04/2026

Chilli update, looking good. Have now brought them into the shade house and hopefully they will survive through winter.

Q - Does anyone have a great hot chili sauce recipe?

13/04/2026

BRING BACK THE CHOKO!
If I invited you to a party and all the food was based on choko would you turn up? If I said it was fine dining with exquisite new tastes and dishes you probable hadn't tried and no mention of choko would you be curious or jump at the chance?

Well yesterday that pretty much what happenend. Dishes where provided based on choko and guess what you wouldn't have have known the ingrediant.

😋 The real highlights was the raw choko pickle that had 3 different finishes, one with ginger, another chilli and finally lebenese cress. It was perfect with the red meat and had such amazing crunch and flavour. The recipe was provided by a good friend so I cant take the full credit. Another dish was presented as apple crumble and the kids didnt know differently, it was awesome. Of coarse the icecream and custard added a further dimension. I have been recently lightly frying in butter and eating hot from the pan with only salt and pepper like hot chips and also amazing. Also made a savory mince to eat this week loaded with choko as my main veg and far healthier than using spuds or pasta.

My vine currently was loaded and even climbed over my neighbours side who got a whole bunch for free too 🙏. Its the white variety and I going to go out on a limb and say its sweeter, more tender and juicer but that could be my illusion.

Bottom line its an amazing perennial crop especially as a back up in hard times. Its so versitile and so nourtrish it could be considered a super food on that level alone.

Its bad reference is becuase it was so hardy it was used as a war crop and many baby boomers grew up on it and now cant stand it!

Anyway maybe worth a try especially as it looks like food prices could sore if our farmers dont get diesel soon at the levels and price they need!

27/03/2026

Luv Guavas, one of the best fruit trees you can grow in SE Qld and lots of varieties 🍑🍑🍑😋.

07/03/2026

Such a great vegie, zucchini tromboncino. You can eat small ones and they taste like beans, let them get bigger and still green and stirfry, add to stews, airfry into wedges. When they get bigger, thicker skinned and more yellow they are somewhere between a pumbkim and sweet potato, tasty as. Also great for seed saving, all kept in one place in the ball shaped end.

05/03/2026

End of season on a few things so put my last picks in the dehydrator. The flavour really intensifys and so sweet. Didnt realky know what to do then so I combined them, cherry tomatoes, chillis and rose grapes. I like thise sweet and spicy tastes in stirfrys so figured it should be ok,may be wrong. Added olive oil and hopefully will get a pretty groovy flavoured oil for cooking and garnishing assuming you dont mind a bit of burn 🌶🌶🍅🍇😋.

27/02/2026

Dragonfruit season is magic, so sweet and tasty, check out these beauties 🍉🤗😋.

19/02/2026

Getting READY FOR GARLIC PLANTING 🧄🧄

12/02/2026

Guava magic, so many types, perfect in SE Qld, almost ready.😋