I love growing my own food.
It makes me feel like I’m doing something worthwhile to reduce my footprint on the environment.
Growing food where I eat it reduces my ‘food miles’ to zero…which makes me feel virtuous. 😉 Continue reading
Where I live, it’s been a pretty fantastic year for fruit.
The good rains over the previous 2 summers (after a long drought) plus good rain in spring probably had something to do with it. So might pretty regular (drip) irrigation and good sun. 🙂
For me, so far we have seen: Continue reading
As we start to unwind and really enter the end-of-year and 
Christmas party season, spare a thought for the environmental impact of all those celebrations…particularly the food.
In Australia, we will spend about $10 billion on food over the Christmas period.
And lot of that will go into our mouths (and onto our bodies… Continue reading
For those of us living in cool temperate areas spring 
is well and truly here, especially if you’ve had lots of rain like we have.
And that means that everything in the garden (and outside the garden!) is growing.
So it’s now time to plant seeds and seedlings for the main summer crops. Continue reading
Parsnips are a delight. Sweet, nutritious and the perfect
accompaniment to roast lamb or butter chicken.
Parsnips also have a reputation as being tricky to grow. Continue reading