Finally it’s time to start a milkwood kombucha brew, following the donation of a mother mushroom from a friend. We started simple, but we have vast dreams of many flavoured brews, which will adorn our every shelf and fill our tummies with fizzy fermented goodness. But first, the basics…
DetailsI think this is what soccer is meant for. Maybe it’s what all sport is meant for. To enable 13 random adults and one 4 year old to get out of their heads and run and dodge and run themselves into a panting, hooting, grinning sweat, as the sun goes down behind the hills…
DetailsIt was too good to be true – a large supply of organic strawberries, and all for me. To turn into the sweetest of christmas gifts – after all, what says ‘thank you for everything’ better than a jar of exquisite, edible rubies? Nothing, that’s what! However manifesting those jars of jewels proved trickier than…
DetailsAustralian native stingless bees are similar to european honeybees in many ways, but they’re also very different, too. This week I was lucky enough to attend a harvest and a hive split of these amazing social insects, in a inner-city backyard in Sydney…
DetailsWe are eating pumpkin tart, and sowing seedlings. Doing rain dances, watching the skies. Playing with sticks (for better or worse), and listening to the bees hum…
DetailsWhatever works, I say. And these stickers certainly do it for me. Our good friend Diego is building an open-source Wild Food map of Sydney, and he needs help to make it happen! By pitching in you can score some of the above stickers, or a ticket to a weeds dinner, or attend a rather…
DetailsComing up in less than two weeks, we’ll be running 3 days of free workshops at Gardening Australia Live in Sydney. There’s workshops on everything from aquaponics to vertical gardening to strawbale building to sauerkraut, with guest appearances by all sorts of awesome experts! Here’s the schedule…
DetailsThis year I am going to be ready for preserving season. So ready. I am going to have all the jars I need, and all the lids and seals for those jars. And I’m going to know where they all are, too, rather than discovering their ‘safe’ (read: obscure) storage place next winter, once the…
DetailsSmoking bacon is not as hard as I thought it would be. And it is incredibly delicious. Recently I was at Allsun Farm, where all pigs that pass through have a great life tractoring and fattening on the organic market garden vegetable leavings, and cracked pastured eggs. Followed by their requisite one bad day. No…
DetailsHey guess what? We’re creating an urban ‘Permaculture Piazza’ for Gardening Australia Live, on 18 – 20 October in Sydney! The Permaculture Piazza will be a leafy space dripping with great ideas and free workshops for creating your own urban permaculture.
DetailsDIY fold-up farmstands allow producers (or picklers, bakers and beyond) a flexible way of bringing food to the people. They also protect your produce from the sun, and allow for a quick pack up should the rain come down.
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Last weekend we held our annual Spring Market Garden Masterclass down at Allsun Farm, with the unstoppable forces that are Joyce Wilkie and Michael Plane. This long weekend is always something akin to diving into Joyce + Mike’s heads, and into the crunchy whirlwind that is a small, diverse ‘garden farm’. Here’s a little of…
DetailsExcited that you’ve just bought some diced goat, but unsure how best to cook it, and what else to buy to go with it? You’re here at the farmers markets, after all. Fear not, Barbara Sweeney will talk you though it. Every farmers market should have a Talking Cookbook like this lady. Someone who just…
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