At our April Dig Day in the Community Garden, we participated in the Autumn Wild Pollinator Count. Each of us spent 10 minutes staring at a flowering plant and counting which pollinators paid a visit. This humble task may seem inconsequential, but think again… thanks to your efforts and those of hundreds of others around…
This month we had the pleasure of having Adam Leiber from Cultcure.org lead a vegetable fermentation workshop in the 241 Bondi Road Community Garden. We made a whole lot extra to share at our Film & Feast. It was a massive hit and we would LOVE to share it with you. INGREDIENTS 2 medium to large…
Diego, the weed forager, presented at April’s Talk and Feast His reputation went before him, and people we’d met at the Farmers Market Stall were disappointed they weren’t going to be able to come (the date was the Thursday night of Easter). Though his usual setting is in ‘the wild’, leading groups through weedy patches…
SWEET POTATO COCONUT CURRY SOUP Ingredients Serves 4 SOUP · 1 medium onion (diced) · 4 cloves garlic (minced) · 1 large sweet potato (cubed) · 2 Tbsp yellow curry powder · 1/4 tsp cayenne powder · 3/4 tsp sea salt · 1/2 tsp black pepper · 3 cups coconut milk TOPPING · 1 1/2 cups of cooked chickpeas or a 400g can · 3 Tbsp olive oil · 1/2 tsp yellow curry powder · 1/4 tsp sea salt · 1/2 tsp garlic powder · 1/2 tsp ginger powder · 1 pinch cayenne powder · Sprouted fenugreek seeds Instructions Chickpeas 1. Preheat…
To round off the eventful Garden Dig that we held on Sunday, I needed to write a little poem, to help me capture it and move on! The essence is that we had a large number of people attend, including 4 children under 5 years old (and their parents). There were only three of our…
Words by Kit QUINCE! Just saying the name of this ‘rare’ fruit gets the mouth salivating 🙂 Recently we received a huge one in our OOOOBY box – about the size of a rock melon – and were then prompted to experiment with it. Without the childhood memories of my mother baking quince overnight in…
