The Sustainable Living Festival has now run with the Tropical Garden Spectacular for 2 years in The George Brown Botanic Garden. It is a great event with stalls, talks and discussion panels, music and entertainment, demonstrations and has a community and school gardens area or village. It is a beautiful setting and vibe and well worth attending. Last year…
Month: May 2012
The Wonder of Wing Beans
Wing Beans are wonderful. They are best when small and cut accross ways are crunchy and good in salad, a little bigger and great steamed or stirfried. I added them into this grated salad- Green pawpaw, raw pumpkin, toasted coconut shred, toasted sesame seeds, mint, lime juice, a little chili, fish sauce and palm sugar. Every fresh…
HOT Harvest
The long red chillies are going off at 99. This is todays harvest basket
Home made Garden Ravioli
It was Gianna’s birthday at the weekend, so I made handmade ravioli, to go with delicious dishes that our great friends bought along. As always I was making it just before hand- but this added to the atmosphere, sitting at the table rolling pasta through the machine, recreating italy for Gianna, including plenty of wine….
Lakeside Drive Commnity Garden
LDCG is on Lakeside Drive, on the edge of Alawa in Darwin’s Northern Suburbs. It is a great place to come together and work or hang out in the garden and learn loads about permacultre gardening. Every other weekend there is a working bee, the last one was yesterday. There are also “Bumble Bees ” which…
Rosella Harvest
Rosella Harvest Rosella grows as a shrub and forms wonderful deep pink- red fruits which are tangy and can be used in salads, or to make into cordials, syrups or jam. They fruit only in May, so it is a special harvest. The leaves are also tangy and also great in salads. It was a…
Dragonfruit Delight
Dragonfruit is the most amazing looking fruit you can find. It is actually grown on a cactus and needs to be staked up. Loads are grown at Humpty Doo and often sold at Rapid Creek Market and you can grow them in your yard from cactus cuttings. At the moment we are constructing a pole and wheel for them…
Now and then
Feb 2012 and Feb 2010 Well a big rumbling beautiful storm has just passed over with a gorgeous down pour of rain and some very loud thunder. Just when we started reaching for the doona on those 22 degree C mornings, the dry isn’t quite with us. I was sorting through my garden photos in anticipation of making the A-Z produce guide…
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