Slow Farming with Rasta Mokko

I've been watching the Ras Kitchen channel since @dmilliz introduced it in this post. It's slow video, it is edited and not completely in real-time, but it does have that feel.

I have a yard out the back and we have talked about cooking out there. There's an open area that leads out from the back of the house and the garage and then, opposite, is my vegetable garden. You can park a car out there, but I prefer to keep it clear and use it as living space.

Since watching these videos, I've been thinking about how I could develop it by building a frame for climbing plants. A favourite is passion flower, I love the way the foliage loops when it has enough space to grow freely. The plants would provide shelter and shade for a living area, an outdoor kitchen and a tub. We have water already out there, and picking up and clearing wood from the trees in the garden is a forever job. I've written elsewhere about building a wood oven.

In this video, Mokko, Matthew and Ratty are out on the farm talking about the crops and hummingbirds. I could do with that machete at the weekend when I'll be taking down cardoons. There were a lot of flowers this year - no hummingbirds but many bees and other insects. Now the flowers have finished, the plants seem to be collapsing. They've grown about seven foot high this year, with giant leaves, maybe three or four feet wide. Interesting, but not great to eat.

I talked a bit about the cardoons in an earlier post.

I can feel a gentler life of gardening, cooking and boating coming on. Maybe a little recording for reggaesteem :)