I am alway fascinated by people’s relationship with plants, their importance and their place in the native landscape, and yes I am a bit of an unashamed plant geek. The stories of plants and their place is so important; not just for people, but as they are the basis of so many species’ existence. By…
Category: Community and school garden stuff
Awesome projects from shared gardens
Open GArden at Lakeside Drive Community Garden
There are some wonderful community gardens around Darwin where you can meet knowledgeable people who grow veggies during the whole year and value community. This Sunday Lakeside Drive Community Garden is hosting an Open Garden. Anyone is invited to come along and check out the garden, meet members, work for the dole participants and express…
Eat Local Feed Global- an outdoor delight
As part of our GULP project had a wonderful food share and work shop at the Mulch Pit in Rapid Creek this November for Eat Local, Feed Global Oxfam campaign that highlights the craziness of our food systems and how eating local can help others further away!. The night was a beautiful twighlight evening and raised money for…
Great Green Mango Salad
The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden (SAKG) team were up in Darwin, doing kitchen training with teachers or specialists, as 5 new schools have jumped on board the program in Darwin. I ran the program at Alawa Primary School for 3 years and was really happy to be asked to lunch and see what delights were being…
Seasonal Salads in Healthy Darwin
So many great things growing through the dry season, but you can feel the heat building- and it makes me want to share the harvest of the dry season in delicious recipes before they start to wilt and droop and we swap over to the delights of the wet season. Once again I have been…
Open Garden- Edible Eden
My friends Kate and Michael have opened their garden this weekend as part of the Darwin “Open Garden Scheme” at their family home. Their house is in my suburb of Alawa and show cases so well what you can do on a (large) suburban block. The house is an old school ground floor government brick house…
A Taste of The Tiwi- part two
The Tiwi islands really are a beautiful place and our time with the rangers was fantastic. Amongst other projects we also visited another farm near Milakarpati, this community has a barge less often and so fresh food is not as regularly received The farm is owned by Tiwi enterprises and supplies food to the shop at…
A Taste of Tiwi
The Tiwi islands are just 80 km north of Darwin and in many ways a world away. The islands consist of 2 islands- Bathurst (smaller) and Melville (larger) and have and always will be owned and governed by the Tiwi people, the land is split into 8 areas that are run by 8 family groups….
Healthy Darwin Workshops
Healthy Darwin is a program run through Darwin City Council and right now I am coordinating the kitchen and garden program. This runs for a couple of hours on a Wednesday for 6 weeks and covers the very basics of growing food plants and cooking local produce. The sessions alternate cooking one week, gardening the…
Local Food at the Community Village of Tropical Garden Festival
It’s that time again, the Tropical Garden festival is here and we are running an awesome community village, showcasing community, gardening and local food. It has a wonderful atmosphere and you can come along or contribute time, cake or culinary delights- please see below. The Tropical Garden Spectacular is coming up on 1st and 2nd JUNE and…
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