Friday 27 March - Coronapocalypse edition
Done:
- emptied night buckets
- coffee, breakfast
- updated stockpile spreadsheet
- started gathering ingredients etc for curried sweet potato soup in the slowcooker
- rewashed load of delicates in the machine
- dealt with Dan's "chuck out" pile of clothes
- got into farm clothes
- reworked my night bucket station
- dirty laundry round-up (excluding Eric)
- put in laundry #1 (clothes)
- hung out delicates
- put curried sweet potato soup in the slowcooker
- cup of tea; watched Milkwood video on sprouting
- started jars of mung beans and salad sprouts
- hung out laundry, put on laundry #2
- watched the first part of Good Life Permaculture's Crisis Food Gardening video in case there were any new tips etc (and I've learned that for winter slug control, I should definitely ditch the mulch in Dan's courtyard, and lay more paper to kill the grass, then top with vegie mix and sow broadbeans direct into that)
- made hummus and felafels
- hung out laundry #2, put in laundry #3
- roasted sweet potato boats
- made nashi, walnut and currant muffins to use up the nashis which were turning bad
- put on chickpeas to soak
- ate potatoes, mayo and spronions for lunch
- hung out laundry #3, put in laundry #4
- brought in dry laundry, sorted and put away all of mine (including the stuff on the bed)
- fell in a heap
- pulled up old mulch from potato beds in Dan's courtyard, added to second raised bed
- added netting to west fence in Dan's courtyard to keep geese/pademelons out and cat in
- supervised Dan triaging their clean laundry for donations/binnables
- hung out laundry #4, brought in dry laundry
To Do:
- Cooking/Food Prep:
- make briami (tomorrow, when I have cooked chickpeas)
- make chia puddings
- make amazeballs (please)
- make silverbeet tofu quiche with cauliflower almond crust
- Laundry:
- dirty laundry round-up (Eric)
- take load of doonas, blankets to laundromat; hang out
- sort and put away any laundry that is in or comes into the house
- sow some seeds
- spring onions - try sowing in a window box then bringing it inside to the living room?
- lettuce (windowbox); bring window box from Dan's courtyard into my courtyard for some TLC
- kale (both kinds - Red Russian is doing really well!)
- chives
- flat of microgreens (lettuce, mustard, cress, etc)
- plant something - yak shaving: spray paint big pot for stevia
- go foraging
- preserving:
- make apple blackberry compote
- try pickling green tomatoes?
- transfer frozen blackberries to tub; freeze diced rhubarb
- harvest something:
- rhubarb; ripening tomatoes; silverbeet
- manage food storage:
- sort out a better solution for the potatoes
- put the freezer stockpile items in the freezer; sort stockpile as needed
- put almond meal in a jar or put the bag in the freezer
- Garden (other):
- chuck some old cow manure around the rhubarb
- ORDER VEGIE MIX before my cabbage and brocolette seedlings spend too long in their punnets
- Community resilience:
- email or call Country Brewer re Fowler's kit
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