Autumn Harvest and Colour

Autumn really is showing her colours and bounty this year, we did not seem to notice it as much when we first arrived last year. Although the majority of native fern, pine and other trees here are not deciduous and stay the same all year there are many stunning imports which are glorious at this time of year. We went back to the McClaren Falls park where we took some lovely 'spring' photos to repeat the experience in autumn.

The season has also brought a bountiful harvest of Malcolm's favourite fruit - fejoas. People here all share their extra fruit so we often get collect or given fejoas, avocados, kiwi gold and green, mandarins, lemons, rhubarb, walnuts, apples, chocos ( a knobbly pale green veg with no particular taste but good in stews) etc etc. Shona also 'works' as a volunteer at the environmental charity Envirohub and gets 'paid' in super fresh garden veg, including white carrots, kumakuma, marrows, silver beet, spinach, chard, green beans and lots of herbs etc etc which is wonderful as well as being a bit of an adventure in cooking with all these things you've never heard of!

So far we have frozen fejoas, made fejoa crumble, fejoa chutney, fejoa vodka, fejoa fool and now fejoa jelly - all new adventures! As well as all the many many fresh ones consumed!