I have 3 upcoming workshops all about our wonderful seasonal produce; which are delivered in partnership with City of Darwin’s Healthy Darwin program. These workshops hope to connect the Darwin community to our local produce and climate here in the Top End, inspiring attendees to buy from local farmers, grow their own and make local…
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Seasonal sides for a Festive Feast
Back by popular demand – Seasonal Sides for a festive feast; plus Gifts from the Garden. Are you sweating it out in the Top End this festive season? Well come along and learn how to make the most out of local produce, growing now in gardens or in Darwin region farms and turn it into…
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’…
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…
Bread Fruit and The Pitcairn story
Bread fruit is an amazing fruit, with an amazing story! In preparation for our local food week, I have been on the look out for great ingredients in place of rice, pastas and stuff like that. I saw heaps of bread fruit at Rapid Creek Markets on Sunday and was reminded of this great story and some…
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