Pedal to produce. Join me (Taste of the Top end) and Mark from Darwin Bike tours on a scenic loop of 3 community gardens and 2 Sunday markets and a bit of seascape on this Sunday with tastes and talks along the way; meet some producers at Rapid Creek Market and end with a drink…
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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…
Market Tour and Taste
For the last year or so I have run some occasional Market tours through “Healthy Darwin”, which is a City of Darwin, council program that subsidises the tour. We came up with the idea to connect people to their food more, by connecting them to local growers and familiarising them with the sometimes more ‘unusual’…
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…
What the Fruit?- Sour Gooseberries!
I came across these little fruits at Rapid Creek Market last week, and if there is anything I have never seen before (which is now less and less likely) I always get it and give it a try. This fruit is really sour and although I had ideas of making a pickle or jam, time…
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