Burros …
Was a nice sight last friday when Max and I saw 3 burrows mosying on down the side of the road and heading up the Kristal Berg. Reminds me when…
Todays cucumber harvest
Together with Max this morning we picked some fresh cucumbers from the yard and will prepare a nice stew for lunch. Yummie yummie .. Looks like we will be having…
Stewed Cucumbers/Comcomber Stoba
Had some stewed cucumbers yesterday and today from the yard and it was delicious. Quick recipe for the stewed Cucumbers: Ingredients: Cucumbers, turkey sausage, chicken strips (cutlet), onions, tomato paste,…
Dutch Caribbean Biodiversity Database
Dutch Caribbean Biodiversity Database | Central repository for biodiversity related research and monitoring data from the Dutch Caribbean The link below provides a site with various books and other nice…
Adding to our Aquaponics
In continuance to our research of what grows or does not do well with the aquaponics, I Just added a celery to our aquaponics unit this morning. We'll check up…
Pickled Cucumbers/Comcomber tempera
This evening I had my first try at making some pickled cucumbers, locally known as Comcomber (criojo) tempera. I chose to do it the European way, by adding sugar to…
Cucumber (Comcomber Chines) harvest
Spent some time this morning picking up some naturally grown, pesticide free, fresh cucumbers. There were still quite a few left, but I picked what we can use for the…
Prepping for Jambo/Okra
Over the weekend we prepped a new area for the Okra (locally known as Jamboo) I also placed the okra seeds to germinate, so we can place these in their…
More ant problems??
Woke up this morning and noticed the the Bouganvilles had quite some damage on them. Went out about 3am to check if ants were attacking the leaves but nothing sighted.…
Comcomber Criollo
Looks like we are getting a nice harvest of Comcomber Criollo (local cucumbers) The plants are full of flowers and we are making more space for the cucumber plants to…