The produce and the people / Urban farming kids
The produce and the people Today I was taking pleasure in a wheelbarrow full of a dark, moist chocolatey compost; a miracle of microbiological transmogrification. I’m no musician or gifted cook, but I can make a pretty good compost (it’s possibly genetic; my dad is well known for his heaps). Anyway, I was admiring the compost because Alan, our neighbour’s, […]
The passata is the political. When the amaranth calls your name.
When the world seems out of control and people all around seem to be sipping from the bubbler of blame and fear, there is something positive and practical we can do. Something simple that brings us together, that makes us nutritionally and emotionally happier, that makes our communities stronger and supports local tomato farmers. It’s Crowdsaucing […]
Diary runneth over / No box left behind > 2018 Target
There’s so much going on over the next month I had to make a program…… Passata Making Workshop – Sunday 26th February I’m not sure how many tomato saucing devices Monique Miller has at home, but she’d easily be in the highest percentile of sauce equipment ownership in Australia. Monique, in preparation for this year’s 21 Days of Crowdsaucing, […]
Sap Rising: The Complete Urban Farmer. 21 Days of Crowdsaucing
Everything feels political these post-truth days – if you search the phrase “gardening as a political act” you will discover no end of articles talking up vegetable growing as an avenue of resistance. You may even come across “Gardening is Gangsta” a Texan rotary-hoeing rap crew’s call to community gardeners world-wide to opt-out of the financial-military-industrial complex and plant […]
Hopeful photos from the heart-land. Crowdsaucing latest
Last week Dori from Tamil Feasts gave us a couple of feast double passes to give away for the two most inspiring and hopeful food photos. The picture above with the rhubarb about to be fermented is from the first of our winners, Elizabeth Long. Here’s Elizabeth’s story….. “On a visit to my mother’s house today I […]
Vegetable Rising
As Meg’s rouge de marmande and yellow cherry pear seedlings reach skyward to the spring sun a corresponding urge to garden rises among the good people of Melbourne.
