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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/01/2026

Green banana flour. This was made from Cavendish bananas, green but fully rounded out, sliced about 5mm thick and dried at 58C (dehydrator using solar power) for about 8 hours, then milled in my new (to me) op shop Vitamix. It's a lovely fine silky flour. It […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A close up of some fingers with a fine, near white flour, over a jar of flour.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/12/2025

My phone camera doesn't do justice to this tiny wing I found on the ground under a flowering fennel in the garden. It's about 2 cm length. #fairieslivehere

A little, irridescent blue and purple wing on a hand.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

Next nice harvest will be gramichama. A small, subtropical tree with fruit that tastes just like cherries. And such pretty fruit! #fromthegarden #permaculture #retrosuburbia

A white bowl filked with dark crimson, smooth glossy berries with green catlyces.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/12/2025

#permaculture #retrosuburbia #fromthegarden #2fruits5veg Midummer breakfast - homegrown mango, ladyfinger banana, gudgin (davidson plum) and honey, on homemade Greek yoghurt.

A glass breakfast bowl on a wooden table spoon in the bowl, with slices of yellow-orange mango, slices of banana, and crimson plum, with crimson plum juice, over white yoghurt just visible underneath.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2025

First gudgin of the season. We'll have kilos of them this year but the first are always a treat. They're mouth puckeringly sour but so deep in flavour (and extremely good forvyou). I'll make jam and sauce and dried powder later but these first 4 go in the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Deep red plum halves in a little glass bowl, juice pooling in the bottom.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/12/2025

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 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2025

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 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/11/2025

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 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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)

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/11/2025

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

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/11/2025

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.

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

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/11/2025

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 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025

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 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.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025

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

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

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2025

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

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

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2025

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

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.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2025

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 […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2025

A little scramble of egg, peas, broccolini, silver beet, cherry toms, spring onion scapes for breakfast. All #fromthegarden #retrosuburbia #permaculture #thegoodlife

It's a scramble with lots of green, some peas showing, some tomato identifiable, some pale bits but more veg than egg.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2025

We pushed hard and got the new (to us) tank installed yesterday and it rained last night. Half full already! Woo hoo! #permaculture #retrosuburbia

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2025

Lots of spring onions in the garden atm so I tried making sourdough Korean scallion pancakes for breakfast. Crispy, flakey, easy, very delicious. #permaculture #retrosuburbia # #fromthegarden

A plate with triangles of pancake, brown fried outside with bits of green scallion showing through. Fork on top. Bowl of dark coloured dipping sauce in the background.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025

Sugar snap peas, worth growing just for the flowers.

Crimson and pink pea flowers against a very deep blue blue sky.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2025

Little bit of sun and our bananas started ripening in the bag. First of 5 bunches we have on, two ladyfingers, two cavs, and this one a ducasse. #permaculture #retrosuburbia #fromthegarden

A bunch of bananas on a banana palm. Blue sky in the background. The top few hands are very ripe though the rest of the bunch are green.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2025

First roast of this year's coffee. I'll roast it a bit lighter next cup. #permaculture #retrosuburbia #fromthegarden

A small glass bowl full of chocolate brown, slightly glossy coffee beans.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2025

Early spring really, the days lengthening fast now. My suburban garden in subtropical NSW, Australia. #permaculture #retrosuburbia #fromthegarden

A lush and ver diverse foid garden, with broccoli, spring onions, carrots, peas, fennel, lettuce, silver beet all identifiable.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2025

First pick of coffee beans for the season. With luck we'll get most of a year's supply thus year, from our little suburban garden. #retrosuburbia #permaculture #fromthegarden

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2025

I have to keep remembering that carrots are really not a sub-tropical crop. I plant them all year but the winter ones are so much better. Right plant for the climate and the season. You'd think I'd know that by now. #fromthegarden #Permaculture

A bunch of carrots held in my dirt covered hand, dirt still on them. Broccoli in the background. The carrots are thick and deep orange.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2025

Today's haul of water chestnuts from my tiny sink on the edge of the front patio. I wasn't so greedy this year, planted just 9 large ones. Rewarded with much larger chestnuts than last year, much better cos not so fiddly to peel. witcheskitchen.com.au/home-improvem…

A bowl of water chestnuts, a hundred or so of them.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/07/2025

My haul of ginger today, from a 40 cm (16 inch) pot on my front porch. I have another couple of plants growing in the garden, and from them I just dig up a bit when I want it. This potted one gets harvested all at once, to make pickled ginger (for rice paper […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A pile of fresh ginger on a board, maybe 2 kilos of it.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2025

What a difference a solstice makes to egg production. It's a cold wet day here, the kind of day chooks (chickens if you are not in Aus) hate. But 7 eggs from 10 geriatric chooks. A week ago we were lucky to get 2 eggs a day. I might not be able to sense the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Glass bowl full of eggs, some deep briwn, some pale, on a wooden table.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2025

Wonderful #biochar making workshop yesterday at Bellingen Northbank Community Gardens. After all our worry about the ECL that is forming, the weather ended up being perfect. Booked out and then extras so it was a big and enthusiastic group with an inspiring […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2025

Chia porridge with pawpaw, passionfruit, gudgin sprinkles, greek yoghurt. All from the garden bar some milk powder to make the yoghurt. #permaculture #retrosuburbia #fromthegarden

A glass breakfast bowl with spoon in it, filled with fruit yoghurt, chia porridge, with dark red sprinkles on top.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/06/2025

Minestrone soup, all out of the garden bar the parmesan on top, on this cold night. #permaculture #retrosuburbia #fromthegarden

White bowl of soup with a spoon in it. The soup is golden coloured and thick with diced, multicoloured vegetables.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2025

On this cold midwinter night, fire in the fireplace, cup of red wine, good dinner of locally caught mullet with salad from my garden. Life is good even though the world is going to shit. I feel for people in so many places who don't have this warmth, safety, full belly, tonight.

A fireplace with a fire in it, my knees in the foreground.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2025

I'm nervous but looking forward to it. (For non-Australians, this small town writing festival is one of the bigger ones in Australia). Should be a lot of fun. We're kicking it off on the main stage. #permaculture #writing

A screenshot from the program for the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival, this weekend. It shows three headshots - me, David Holmgren and Kirsten Bradley and the title of our session "Rooted in Resilience".

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2025

Okonomiyaki for breakfast, with crispy fried oyster mushrooms, avocado and cherry tomatoes on top. Almost all #fromthegarden #permaculture # retrosuburbia

A white plate with a blue tim, with a large cabbage pancake, red tomatoes avocado, and a spiral of mayo on top.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2025

Plant markers enough for years. Brought back from the off-grid festival washing up station, given a good hosing off and dried in the sun. Score! #reuse

A wire basket filled with hundreds of used bamboo disposable forks and spoons.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/04/2025

I'm loving loving loving this book. I had the earlier version years ago and know my favourite recipes from it off by heart. But either there's a lot more in this edition or I never properly explored the old one. #RecipeBooks

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2025

Chia and banana porridge for a cold wet morning, with greek yoghurt, passionfruit and gudgin syrup. All #fromthegarden except for some milk powder for making yoghurt. #Permaculture on a tiny house block in #retrosuburbia

A glass bowl with a spoon in it on a wooden table. Chia porridge looking like little dark seeds in thick gel, thick white yoghurt on top, passionfruit and deep red syrup on top of that.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2025

Minestrone with fresh sourdough this wet evening. All #fromthegarden except for some flour and some parmesan for on top. #permaculture #retrosuburbia

A white bowl of soup with a rainbow of vegetables, chopped parsley on top, corner of a loaf of bread just visible in the background.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2025

Alfred wrecked our bananas but gave us mushrooms. Not sure it's a fair trade but I'll take it. #permaculture #retrosuburbia #fromthegarden

Two bowls of oyster mushrooms, one white oysters, one pearl oysters on a wood table. Cut loaf of sourdough in the background.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/03/2025

Our lemons are just coming into season and I had a hankering for gozlemes for Sunday breakfast. Sourdough, spring onion, molokhia, garlic greens, basil, fried in olive oil. All #fromthegarden apart from some flour and oil. Very fast and easy. #permaculture #retrosuburbia

Triangles of crispy browned sourdough filled with greens on a plate, lemon wedge on the side.

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2025

Look at the size of the latest bunch of Cavs. This is the view from my kitchen sink. I hope it survives the coming week. We are at the very southern end of the effects of Cyclone Alfred, due to hit just north of Brisbane (where my son and family live) on […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/02/2025

Breakfast is first of the season avocadoes. Smashed with lime and coriander and spring onion, on homemade sourdough focaccia, poached egg and yellow cherry tomatoes. All from the garden bar flour for the bread. #permaculture #retrosuburbia #fromthegarden

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Linda Woodrow @lindawoodrow.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/02/2025

My 6yo granddaughter has been doing fashion design drawings. This was a favourite.So for her birthday present, we bought the fabric and pattern, and have spent the last couple of weeks after school cutting, pinning and sewing it.

The "princess" dress as it was made. You can see the relationship to the child's drawing, (in as much as it is possible to sew something to fit an actual child).

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