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Newest on the Block Jerusalem Artichokes Artichokes Waterchestnuts oca - or NZ yams Trees Apple X 2 Avocado X 3 Banana X 8 Carambola X 2 Coffee bushes ( 8) Curry Tree X 2 Custard Apple X3 Elderberry (8) Fig Grape (vine) X 3 Grapefruit Ice cream Bean X 3 Japanese Raisin Tree Kiwifruit (2) Lemon X 2 Lemonade X 2 Lime Mandarin X4 Macadamia X 5 Mango X 4 Mulberry X 6 Nectarine x 2 Neem Olive X 3 Passionfruit (vine ) x who knows Paw Paw Peach X 3 Pecan X 3 Pigeon Pea (almost a tree) X 125 Plum X 3 carob  up the ice-cream bean tree. Vegetables Asparagus beans, Madagascar, soy, green, butter, climbing, scarlet runner etc Broad beans Broccoli Cabbage Capsicum Carrot Cauliflower celery chillies Corn cress Cucumber Eggplant Endive Kale leeks Lettuces Mizuni mushroom plant onions Pak Choi Peanuts Peas Potato Pumpkin (some of which is goat and chook food) Radish Rainbow Chard Rhubarb Snow peas Squash strawberries Sweet Potato Tatsoi Tomato Turnip Wong Bok Zucchini Grass or grain crops Millet Oats Sugar cane Wheat Brambles/berries Blackberry (2) Boysenberries (2) Raspberries (too many to count) Young berries ( 2) Herbs Aloe vera Andropogis Basil by the bushel Brahmi burdock Calendula Cardamom Catmint Chives Cleavers Comfrey Coriander Cumin Elecampane fennel Galangal Garlic Ginger Hyssop Lavender Lemon grass Lemon verbena Oregano Parsley Patchouli Pennyroyal Peppermint Plantain Pleurisy root Sage Soapwort Social Garlic Stevia Tarragon Thyme Tumeric Yarrow Various Arrowroot (Goat Fodder and flour) Lablab (goat) Luffas (scrubbing brushes) Nasturtium (good wormer and we pickle the seeds and use the flowers in salads) Sunflowers (oil and chook/goat food) Eggs (aroung 6-8 a day all year round) Goats milk (around 1.5 to 3 litres a day) – which is then made into cheeses and yoghurts and the occasional butter. Soy beans for tofu and goat food. Can barter for staples eg flour, salt, rice, sugar, soap, with any excess fruit and vegetables. This list has a tendancy to contract and expand as we experiment with new foods or decide some food types are not suitable for our area. Most foods are seasonal so we do not eat mandarins all year around etc, but we can, with some effort, be eating potatoes, tomatoes and chillies most of the year as we live in a sub-tropical area. main page |
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