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It's silkworm time! All the mulberry trees are covered with huge green leaves, and the very hungry silk worms chew through them, growing fatter as spring rain helps everything grow. Interestingly, there are two types of mulberry: the black-purple (Black English) and the white berry (Shahtoot). The yarn dyed with the Shahtoot mulberry leaf is a lovely Spring green colour. I tripped over some large hard shell cases of the Moreton Bay Chestnut aka the Queensland Black Bean. These large brown-shelled "nuts" are extremely toxic to humans and animals but cleverly, indigenous peoples turn these into a food source after...