Dear Yogis,

For a long time now I have been saying to my students and everyone, start stocking up food….  things like rice, pasta, flour, honey, powdered milk.  Things with multiple uses that won’t deteriorate.  I have to say, even though I have been doing the You Tube videos, hardly anyone has been paying attention.  Thanks to the Corona Virus (although it could have been a number of things) if you have seen the papers and have been watching the news, you will see that maybe you should have been listening.

If you are worried, please come to the small workshop I am running called WILD – EAT YOUR WEEDS.  March 15th, 2pm to 4pm.  Once you know what is growing under your feet (that costs nothing), you will feel marginally more secure.

I know that Coles can close its doors for a couple of weeks and I will survive with hardly any changes, after a month I will have to go further afield for food, but IT WILL ALL BE FREE.  There is so much food around that I have been having to give it away.  I have starch from bunya nuts, honey from my bees, greens from the garden, flour, pasta, rice, frozen and jammed fruit, heaps and heaps of food all just waiting to be eaten – and I don’t have to shop.  It is fabulous.

What will you be doing if Coles runs out of staples?  I know what I will be doing – just being me.

I do have a recipe book on Etsy I did years ago called “Windfalls and RosePetal Jam”.  www.myyogabooks.etsy.com.  I am updating it now.  It was how to make something out of nothing and eating well from simple garden produce.  Even using your rose petals.

SEE YOU SOON.

NAMSTE – JAHNE

 

 

 

We had a fabulous teacher training day today, and one of our students brought a BUNYA NUT for each of us.  Keeping in mind that the nut is the size of a big pineapple, it was quite a gifI am exploring different ways to use the nut, although I am told Bunya pesto is terrific.  I am working towards that so will let you know.

 

 

This photo above is of (half) the bunya nut.  I put a wine bottle in there so you would have an idea of scale.  It is big.  The nuts are the size of large walnuts, and the whole Bunya Nut is the size of a large pineapple as I said above.  And with spikes.

I am busy making RoseHip wine,  The Bunya into pesto, Walnuts into pickled walnuts and walnut sauce, mead, kombucha and Rhumtopf (vodka/brandy topf”).  I also made Hare Rillette – hare cooked, shredded and preserved in spices and fat.  They will all be in my new cookery book, which I am thinking of publishing a chapter at a time so you don’t have to wait.

I am making new pendulums, and pendulum boards.  They are beautiful.  You can have a board made especially for you.

And, I have received a new shipment of our good oil.  CBD is of course illegal for human consumption which is probably why 50ml costs $75 from me and $700+ from  the medicos…  There are quite a few happy puppies around town, even my cat is happy and relaxed.

Hope to see you in class.  Please get onto the YouTube videos and Etsy www.myyogabooks.etsy.com.  There is lots new to see.

Namaste, Jahne