I kid you not, the animals of the Collingwood Children’s Farm entertain adult humans as much as their offspring. I’m doing a project here with the hard working staff looking at everything from pasture to fodder/shade trees. Let’s just say for now that Kurrajong is at the top of my list - more on that another time. Meanwhile, the baby goats are indeed ‘toxically cute’ as someone quoted someone else as saying. All my disturbing memories of goats roaming through western NSW chewing it to pieces melted away, I had to get out of there quickly. Also good to see an actual black sheep in the family lovingly accepted by all. And Chinese Geese are the most dignified avian dinosaurs I know #collingwoodchildrensfarm #lambspam #kidgoats #anglonubian #blacksheepofthefamily #shropshirelamb #chinesegeese #birds are dinosaurs #obviouspun

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Not Judith with the Head of Holofernes but @claire.hocking with a big round tuber of Air Potato Yam. You can eat these although they are meant to be ‘cheeky’ ie. slightly poisonous and bitter. You chop them into pieces and soak them water for 24 hours before cooking. I’ve eaten the aerial bulbils of this species that grow from the leaf axil (hence ‘air potato’) to no ill effect. Anyway, the fast growing, climbing summer foliage is beautiful so I mostly grow it as an ornamental #judithwiththeheadofholofernes #obscurereference #theyartz #airpotato #dioscoreabulbifera #novelcrops #panc #bushfoods #cheekyyams #horticulturestudent #burnleyfieldstation

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I know a guy who knows a guy who got me new varieties of Oca/New Zealand Yams to try out this growing season. Oca is a polyploid crop with a lot of uncertainty around its origins, probably involving several species in its domestication by Andean people thousands of years ago. As it’s now propagated vegetatively, breeding new types from seed involves patient management of flowering and pollen including much emasculation of anthers (😱)! #oxalistuberosa #newzealandyams #ocatubers #stemtubers #lostcropsoftheincas #pinktubers #novelcrops #panc #plantbreeding #polyploid #cultigen #ihaveaconnect #iknowaguy

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Ents on the march at Central Park, East Malvern. More commonly known as Elms, these specimens do late winter tracery of bare stems very well #ents #elmtree #ulmus #urbantrees #parktrees #deciduoustrees #seasonalchange #treetrunks #parksofmelbourne #centralparkmalvern

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