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 +====Harvest Fest preserves====
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 +Fri Sep 28, 2012 12:46 pm
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 +The patakitchen was transformed into a distillation laboratory for unusual essences, the last taste of summer in this autumnal hemisphere preserved in oil. I worked all day gently distilling and brewing four interesting essences which were then taken and shared at the Harvest Festival with the help of some dedicated and assiduous assistants (who also helped carefully label and explain each preserve to fascinated passers-by).
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 +These were the four recipes:
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 +  * Beetroot for its earthy taste
 +  * Green coriander (rather than the dried seeds - an experiment)
 +  * Pepper with ginger
 +  * Plums with ginger (plums with garlic would have been interesting, but Armoracio was sceptical…)
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 +--andemica    
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 +====Saracenia====
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 +Fri Sep 28, 2012 12:13 pm
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 +Someone wrote a meticulous but incomplete name tag on one of the species we are investigating. There are some details I need to confirm, as I believe they could be inaccurate. For example, does anyone know which "endangered habitat" is referred to in the label of this specimen of Arschia beluaiz? This plant actually seems to have started a process of aggressive mutation while held in captivity, though it is quite incorrect to report it as being "97% Zamzia."
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 +{{>https://secure.flickr.com/photos/foam/8032303621/}}
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 +--cerhy
  
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 +====Watering plant spheres====
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 +Fri Sep 28, 2012 10:17 am
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 +  * 04/09 - All but 1 side string
 +  * 06/09 - All string plants
 +  * 13/09 - All string plants
 +  * 20&21/09 - All strings
 +  * 27/09 All strings sprayed and injected…
 +
 +--mango
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 +====Of making strawberry jam====
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 +Wed Sep 26, 2012 3:11 pm
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 +So many jams to prepare in so little time and now my assistant has asked me to write it down but I don’t have much to say. As the autumn days shorten I find myself more and more in the fields and forests at twilight, hurrying to gather fruits and herbs and the last of summer’s bounty. My kitchen is overflowing with jars and liquorice, pots, pans, alembics, bottles, children’s toys, it’s such a mess but what can you do, life is bubbling up like hops.
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 +We’re all thinking about the winter to come and the many feasts round the hearth and home and at bonfire festivals. Wines and oils, juices of berries from distant lands, and there’s so many ways that the essences and the substances can be preserved - they’ve got to last for the long winter of course, but it’s much more. When I make strawberry jam some of the essence of the beautiful strawberry princess herself is distilled in the jar. Strawberries in the winter.
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 +--andemica
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 +====Greenhouse contemplation====
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 +Wed Sep 26, 2012 3:09 pm
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 +(Worm Moon, 492829 PRT, 4th Octal)
  
 +The gardens were deserted in the twilight. I walked along the paths towards the greenhouse as if invisible, my lantern casting the palest of green halos through the trees, my footsteps echoing with the imprints of those forgotten sounds that have always seemed peculiar to this world alone. (Trismegisto believes that these sounds are doorways.) As the night descends, the cool furnace of the greenhouse is palpable from a distance, radiating the substances captured during the heat of the day in a continuous gentle wind, seemingly impalpable to the natives of this world. This emanation renders the glass walls viscous and easy for me to pass through. I stepped into the scintillating luminosity that is not light, and took up my customary seat in the grotto, listening without sound to the movements of a slow metabolism that is the synthesis of light and earth. Thus I pass many a night on this world.
  
 +--caslab
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