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In which I go to Wheeo
There’s something about the sound of that name “Wheeo”, doncha think? It came to mind today, watching my elder son hurtle down the slide at the waterpark – it’s a sound of exhilaration and...
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2010 Australian Women’s History Month celebrates some female pioneers of...
Every year the Australian Women’s History Forum runs a themed “Women’s History Month” in March. This year’s theme is music to the ears of a pointy-headed food nerd: Demeter’s daughters: women’s harvest...
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Our school garden is part of the Open Garden scheme this weekend
If you’re in Canberra, the Majura Primary School is participating in the Open Garden Scheme. Part fund-raiser, part hoping to inspire and part pride at how far we’ve come … It’s a joint gig with the...
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Planning, Applying, Building, Sustaining – how to grow a Stephanie Alexander...
My son’s school (as I have mentioned quite a few times already) is the Demonstration School for the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation program in the ACT. The program is now being rolled...
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‘Mum, you overgrew them!’: Dr Sister Outlaw’s bountiful home harvest
It’s been a lovely summer and autumn of eating in my vege patch. Every day since November I have been harvesting herbs, rambling for raspberries, slurping shockingly sweet strawberries and, when the...
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Goings on around here
Although this blog has been horribly neglected since I started working more in July, my garden has been getting some attention. It’s a bit wild at the moment, need to pull out a few things and start...
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You say “tomato” and I say “Imma make passata every week for the next month”
I think that being an even mostly self sufficient household in the suburbs is a pretty mean feat to pull off. Some friends of ours two streets away are about 70% self sufficient in fruit and veg on...
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My veggie garden at the Spring Equinox
I did a post a couple of years ago on my vegetable garden at the Winter Solstice, and thought I might remedy my longstanding blog-neglect with some pretty pictures. There are two large productive beds...
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