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Making your own yoghurt doesn’t have to involve buying new machines/gear. It just involves your existing pots and pans, time and some mature yoghurt to get the party started! The latest video in our Good Life For All series shows you exactly how – I love making these little videos as a way to support […]
If you’re wondering how to make your own pasta, look no further! It’s beautifully easy and beautifully tasty! I recently recorded a video of my doing just that which you can watch below. You can also read an older blog with each step detailed for you to read through over here. Bon appetit :-).
Some exciting news! I wrote a book, it’s arriving in bookstores on August 31st and is now available for pre-order here. The Good Life: How To Grow A Better World is all about how to live a good life in the face of the climate emergency. From growing your own food to composting, building a […]
We’re happy to announce we’re working with Eat Well Tasmania and Sustainable Living Tasmania to hold our second annual “Home Harvest” garden tour in the Hobart municipality! Special thanks to the City of Hobart for funding this great initiative. Home Harvest is going to be a one day event on Saturday March 6th, 2021 in […]
Globe artichokes (Cynara scolymus) are part of the thistle family – so in the right climate, they grow like weeds. Beautiful, delicious (non-invasive) weeds. We’ve planted a lot of them amongst our edible forest garden as a stunning (and tasty) perennial. When it comes to eating them, it can initially be a tad confusing about […]
For week 7 of our Crisis Gardening series we’re covering how you can grow (and make) your own immune boosting tea, or “immune-a-tea” as I like to call it. Right now the whole world is trying to stay healthy, or get healthy – fostering a strong immune system is something we can all do to […]
Week 5 of our Crisis Gardening series has us looking at our weeds – and eating them. Specifically the mighty dandelion (Taraxacum Officinale). Now, it’s slightly crazy that we spend so much time pampering “traditional” vegetables in the garden when some of the weeds growing in our lawn are significantly more nutritious than they’ll ever […]
The world is a big and interesting place full of uncertainty right now. Perhaps it always is – but we’re *all* just being personally impacted by it right now due to the global spread of coronavirus (covid-19). Because of this rapid spread, a lot of people are now choosing to self-isolate in their homes as […]
We’re happy to announce we’re working with Eat Well Tasmania and Sustainable Living Tasmania to hold the inaugural “Home Harvest” garden tour in the Hobart municipality! Special thanks to the City of Hobart for funding this great initiative. Home Harvest is going to be a one day event on March 7th, 2020 in the Hobart […]
Globe artichokes (Cynara scolymus)… They’re a strikingly beautiful plant to grow and, when starting out, strikingly confusing to eat. This little blog’s for all you folk wondering how to wrap your mouth around this thistle – without the thistle experience. If you’re wondering how to grow them, you can read Peter Cundall here and Sustainable […]