Thanks Helucat.  Yes the skin cancer has always been a problem where I live.  Summers can be brutal.  I’m in the south but not in a coastal region.  There is snow in winter sometimes half an hour from where I live but we are in a valley so don’t generally get snow but heavy frosts through winter.  Autumn and spring are nice though.

Interesting that you say that about foraging.  As I don’t know a lot about credible wild plants here, will hold off but I know there is a native fruit in the far north called Kakadu Plum which has the highest concentration of Vitamin C than any other fruit in the world. You can buy it in capsule form, but it’s expensive. Surely we must have edible natives here.  The quince grows so well as do roses and yet NO rose farms.

Its really easy and cheap to buy free range eggs here as so many people keep poultry.  I have an elderly neighbour who dies deliveries on his electric trike!