Autumn is in the air!

Did you experiment this yet?
I did but I am afraid to eat it because I'm not sure if it's the one I put around the backyard :-) but they often come back every autumn from March to May.

TRUTH IS: after any wildfires or bushfires, mushrooms regrowths are more prolific than ever. I have grown in the remote mountain in my childhood years and I knew some people even intended to lit a fire before the rainy season so it creates an abundance of mushroom foraging in the mountain. Once you grow up in that kind of environment the old folks' knowledge is passed on the next generation that I already learned. Unfortunately, it is not the same principle to apply foraging in Australia if you did not forage since you were young as there are more poisonous and edible ones that look the same. Good news for the foragers in Australia if you know what to forage, though in the midst of coronavirus crisis.

Maybe try this infographic I stumble online.


"Cut stems off store-bought mushrooms, and place the mushroom caps gill-side-down on a piece of clean wax paper. 5. Wait 24 hours for the caps to release their spores, which you will replant when you are done. You may cover the caps with cups if you like, which can keep the delicate spores from blowing away." -fix.com


Source: Fix.com Blog

Visiting Koala Park last year after checking some job offers in the surroundings for our friend. It's tempting to hike but we were not prep for bushwalking gears because it was fairly hot summer for tracksuit pants and hiking shoes.

After the wildfires late 2019 to early 2020, there was some proposal they could relocate wildlife Koala that became extinct in the area for a while, I mean they escaped from the park in spite of fencing. We hiked the area years ago and if you start at the bottom to the top you will be rewarded with a beautiful lake view. You only need to follow the track due to old mines shafts in the area if you like to forage some berries, you might be in trouble.

where to start hiking down the bottom track to the lake

It looks Dewberry but it's small size wild Blackberry

close up

more close up

drying up before we pick and they're pretty sweet

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My new adopted baby for a while now is SCOBY!

What is SCOBY?
Wiki defines,
"A SCOBY or SCOBAY, an acronym of a "symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast".
It is a syntrophic mixed culture of yeast and bacteria used in the production of several traditional foods and beverages."

I bookmarked some sellers on eBay way before we decided which one to buy from. I just want to review one Kombucha kit of Karl. The summer air was glaring over the spring snow clouds, and we felt like drinking fizzy not the soda.  We decided to buy kombucha kit instead of kefir kit since we found a great deal of Kefir drink from the supermarket recommended by Russians in Australia who drinks the stuff from their origin country and still closest to their traditional brew.

Ironically, the organic Kombucha they sell from the supermarket uses Stevia sugar which is no sugar for the SCOBY when fermenting at all. If we brew our own Kombucha SCOBY the better and saving us fiat currency. I mean fiat currency as we can also use cryptocurrency in other smarter markets now.

What's in the kit?

Properly packed and received all in its package.

The photo shows what are in the kit.

Karl Organic Kombucha Kit Review:

• Kombucha kit we bought online for two users are 4L kit (one for us and one for our old folks - although we could have waited to have a SCOBY hotel sharing from my brew kit it may take some time)
• It's a brilliant package kit together! the recipe is all in the kit, most are organic except the white sugar, but I replaced the white sugar in the kit with organic brown sugar from the supermarket available between Woolies and Aldi shops (white sugar still fine to use too)
• the instructional one-page printed is awesome user-friendly
• the brewing jar is easy to install with the careful installation of the taps and testing it to avoid leaking accidents along with the brewing stage
• transaction online shop is pretty quick delivery from the date of purchase
• if there's any question, you can contact him online
• as a first brewer, it's the perfect kit size to experiment with no hassles
• my very first brewing kombucha date started Sept. 30, 2019
• my 6th batch continuous brewing date in Dec 24th, 2019
• within those 6th brewing experience process, I learn the do's and don'ts of the kit itself while reading other brewer golden tips online
• the only downside of the kit with tap is useless unless you have extra time to wash all the tap parts where all the kombucha SCOBY inhabited in the crannies comfortably :-)
• January 15th starts my 7th continuous brewing batch, I'm able to save SCOBY babies from the SCOBY mother itself into my SCOBY hotel jars (share in a different post about my SCOBY hotel experience)
• my SCOBY HOTEL is ongoing for some next post and for those who want a free giveaway SCOBY mother from my babies local-based location pick-up
• the brewing kit is continuous 107% success that's why I waited for it this long to give my unbias legit review
• Karl Kombucha Kit online shop

The Kombucha Kit First Brew (bought a separate organic raw sugar for the kit)

my current continuous brew on its 7th batch by the time I blogpost