Looking to grow your own produce this year? Whether it’s in a backyard, on a balcony or even over a windowsill there is free Sydney workshop to help you on your way. Green Villages is an initiative by the City of Sydney to grow a more sustainable Sydney. The website […]
Spring Green Tart
October 22, 2013 By Leave a Comment
October is a tricky month for garden produce in Australia. In the community gardens in Katoomba, spring ingredients like peas, reseeding greens like Mizuna and Mibuna may already be bursting to go. Or they might equally have been blown over by a gale, subsumed by frost, dug up by local […]
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The taste of (almost) spring – a menu to banish winter
April 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Spring is filled with promise, but the further away from the equator you go the longer it takes for new green shoots to break through the winter-hardened earth. This menu, inspired by a NY Times article by David Tanis, uses lightened-up cold weather produce and early spring veggies to banish […]
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You’re invited to lunch! April 21, 2013
March 7, 2013 By 8 Comments
Whether you like to grow your own food, are a regular at Farmers’ Markets, or simply enjoy eating fresh, seasonal produce, Seasonal Sunday Lunch is for you. It’s as simple as holding or attending a lunch where all the ingredients on the menu are locally seasonal. The date for our […]
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What is seasonal eating?
March 7, 2013 By 2 Comments
In this on-demand day and age many of us have forgotten about – or never knew – times when we ate according to the seasons. Before supermarkets and hot-houses and thousand-mile importation and even refrigeration were part of our every-day lives we ate a varied and healthy diet determined by […]
