Coming up on Sunday 28th May is this year’s workshop “Herbs for Health” (and goodness from the garden) I will be featuring 15 of the top plants we can grow all year that have amazing medicinal properties, we will then make some simple recipes, teas and tonics that include them. Here is just one amazing…
Category: Local Produce Picks
Fourteen Fabulous Fruit from NOT faraway
Today the local food supply situation was brought to my attention once again, by an acquaintance and journalist. I have been pretty busy working in our native bush and my local food fascination sometime slides a little to the sidelines. Today I started making contacts about wanting to re-boost our local food stories and featuring…
Top Ten of The Top End Bush Tuckers (plant based)
Just now it is an amazing time to be out and about in our native landscapes, which I have been doing over the last few weeks, with work and bushwalking. Our native plants are incredible and many are flowering after the last rains. Sadly I did not take my good camera walking, but nearer town…
Bitter bite into a sweet dish
So tomorrow I am doing my second only market tour of Rapid Creek markets, for those not familiar with the produce… One of the produce always asked about is the Bitter gourd/ bitter melon. I have yet to perfect this into a dish everyone likes, but I have transformed this curious fruit into a few…
Sapodilla in season
Delicious Sapodillas are ready and available at the Rapid Creek, and probably other local food markets. Sapodilla, or Manilkara zapota, is a small brown rough skinned fruit resembling a (soft) small potato. It has a rich sugary malt like flavour and is from the Americas. It is grown in the Darwin region. I have now put up…
Toad legs- the new delicacy in feral food?
In the past the GULP team have discussed the various contents of the cook book that will emerge from this wonderful community based local food project. We would like to set the book out to be produce focused and look at the ingredients that we grow, then from this the recipes are written, and include…
12 and a half ways to crack an egg (dish)
I am not sure if this is slightly inspired by Easter and conversations and traditions arising about eggs, but I have had the urge to share the wonderful things you can do with eggs. I personally did not grow up with egg traditions (or religion) at Easter, beyond hunting for chocolate eggs. My interpretation of…
Bush Tucker (Super) smoothies
I recently wrote about the abundant Terminalia ferdinandiana, which is a wonderful commonly occurring tree in our Savanna woodland, that is fruiting right now. It is well known to contain really high amounts of vitamin C. The Conservation Land Management Students, studying with Yvette at Greening Australia had been collecting the seed to save and propagate…
Catching Rain
As I am writing this the rain is once again pouring outside, and as promised from the last post I will write some useful information about how you can have even more rain in your life, by catching it. With so much rain, not many people do this and rely on damns, and strangely treated…
More Mango madness
Mangoes, so sweet and wonderful- the most abundant fruit right now, in markets, veggie shops, road sides and on your trees! MAny of course are grown to be shipped interstate, but we can make the most of enjoying them freight free. Now going for $2.50- $3.00 a kilo or $25 a box, so if you…
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