Bushfoods and Wild Foods:
Davidson's Plum
Lemon Aspen
Lemon Myrtle
Native Raspberry
Black Wattle
Yellow Guava (not native)
Red Cherry Guava (not native)
Bush Lemon
Loquat (not native)
Macadamia
Woolly Pear
Millaa Vine
Passionfruit (not native)
Avocado (not native)
Blue Quandong
Atherton Oak
Banana Fig
Cluster Fig
Lillipillies
Fish
That's what we've found so far - there's heaps of other things out there you can eat, apparently, but I'm not so keen on the flavour and texture, and/or haven't discovered them yet!
In the Orchard areas and Food Forest:
Abiu
Apple (tropical, dwarf)
Avocado (a few varieties)
Bamboo (some edible, all useful, all clumping)
Bananas
Bay Tree
Black Sapote
Blackberry Jam Fruit
Boysenberries
Brazillian Cherry
Calamondin
Carambola
Carob
Cedar Bay Cherry
Chilean Guava
Choko
Citron
Coconut
Coffee
Cumquat (a few)
Custard Apple
Dragonfruit (3 varieties)
Davidson's Plum (2 varieties)
Elderberry
Fig - White Genoa
Green Sapote
Grapefruit - Red
Grumichama
Guava
Hog Plum
Icecream Bean (2 varieties)
Jaboticaba
Jackfruit
Kaffir Lime
Lemon (4 varieties)
Lemon Myrtle
Lillypillies
Longan
Loquat
Macadamia (40+ trees, mostly 20+ yrs old)
Mandarins (3 varieties)
Mulberry (3 varieties)
Native Olive
Nectarine (tropical 2 each of 2 varieties)
Neem
Orange (3 varieties)
Passionfruit (many vines of different varieties)
Paw Paw
Peach (7 total, 4 varieties)
Peachcot
Peanut Butter Tree
Persimmon
Pigeon Pea (lots and lots)
Pineapple Guava (feijoa)
Pineapples
Pomegranate (2 varieties)
Plum (tropical 2 each of 2 varieties)
Pummelo
Raspberry
Rollinia Deliciosa
Rose Apple
Sea Grape
Star Apple
Sweet Leaf
Tamarillo
Tangello
Tahitian Lime
White Sapote
Yellow Sapote
Youngberries
Animal Products:
eggs from chickens of all shapes and sizes
eggs from muscovy ducks
roosters excess to our needs
milk from our house cow
honey from bee hives someone keeps here
fish (as mentioned above in wild food list) in the creek
...and that's outside the garden!
We have 3 large garden areas - 2 greenhouses under mostly shadecloth and 1 fenced with chicken wire. We have lots of pets and wildlife and farm animals, so a lot of vegies are locked away...
In the Gardens:
Aerial Potatoes
Aloe Vera
Arrowroot (2 types)
Asian Greens - mixture
Asparagus
Basil
Beans - several varieties
Broad Beans
Broccoli
Cabbage - 2 varieties
Cape Gooseberries
Capsicums
Carrots (only a few, but they're sweet)
Cassava
Cauliflower
Celery - 2 varieties
Ceylon Spinach
Chinese Artichoke
Chilli
Choko - 2 varieties
Comfrey
Coriander - Mexican
Eggplant - 2 varieties
Garlic Chives
Garlic - 3 varieties
Ginger - 3 varieties
Land Cress
Leeks - 2 varieties
Lemongrass - 2 varieties
Lettuce - many varieties
Mint - 2 varieties
Mizuna
Mushroom plant
Nasturtiums
Oka
Onions
Parsley - 2 varieties
Peas (almost done)
Pepinos
Pineapples - smooth and rough
Potatoes - few varieties
Pumpkins - couple of varieties
Rhubarb
Rice
Rocket
Shallots - lots
Silverbeet
Spinach - several types
Strawberries
Sweet Potato - 2 varieties
Tatsoi
Tahitian Spinach
Tomatoes - mostly cherry right now
Warrigal Greens
Water Chestnuts
Water Cress
Winged Beans
Yacon
Yam - 2 varieties
Zucchini - yellow
There's probably more. I know I've forgotten some herbs. And I have a heap of seedlings to plant out, another 30+ trees waiting for the rainy season and oodles of seeds to plant into the newest bed especially...
4 comments:
An amazing list Bel. I did a quick jot down of our growing plants this week too,it's great to get a mental picture of what you have and even discover some you forgot :)
Can I ask you what aerial potatoes are?? Are they a variety or a different type of plant?
I love your house cow!!! Happy gardening.
Hi Fay! Aerial Potatoes aren't actually potatoes. It's this one: http://jennysgarden.com/VinesClimbers/Dioscorea_bulbifera-Air_Potato.htm.
Wow Bel, your place sounds delicious. How long has it taken to build up your gardens/forests? I'd love to see it one day.
Actually, we are looking into the WWOOFing thing, so maybe we will see it one day!
Hi Kel! Look us up if you do go WWOOFing. :) We have only been here 2.5 years, and most was planted in the first 18 months or so. We're just about to enter our planting season (when it rains non-stop) so will be adding to this list. :)
The forest is existing rainforest, we've just added orchards and gardens to the house paddock. We hope to turn stage 2 of the orchard into a food forest area now we've watched the Food Forest DVD!
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