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Honeycomb Valley Farm at Nabiac is the venue for a practical one day workshop designed to give farmers inexpensive strategies to deal with excessive rain, dry periods, high and low temperatures. Presented by Adam Wilson and Greg Paynter of Soil Systems Australia, the worshop has been subsidised by the Federal Department of Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry (DAFF) and [...] If you’re reading this blog, you might be interested in the whole “Slow” movement which celebrates taking time to prepare good food, thoughts and friendships. Now in its fourth edition, there’s a beautifully produced Australian magazine celebrating all things “Slow”. The words it uses to describe itself/its readers are: “creative, leisured, aware, relaxed, satisfied, informed, sincere…” The brainchild of Jacqui [...] I can’t even remember how we first met Matt Kilby from Global Land Repair, but suddenly he was vaulting our fences and gates teaching us the best way to plant our orchard and windbreak trees. That was about 4 years ago and when all the pink tree guards started going up, it certainly gave passing traffic [...] Having grown up in Sydney being told we’d all be dead if we ate a poisonous mushroom, we’ve kind of avoided all the mushrooms sprouting about the farm during Autumn/Winter, so thank goodness for the local French chef and mushroom connoisseur who has pointed out the folly of our ways! Albert, or as the kids call [...] What on earth is synthetic beeswax and why on earth do we need it? That’s the question I asked when I checked out the ingredients on one of my daughter’s chemist-suggested eczema creams only to discover it said “synthetic beeswax”. It got me wondering…who makes it? (perhaps Cyborg bees?). What’s in it? (perhaps petrochemical honey & plastic [...] We’ve been soaping up a storm most days as we prepare for farmers markets and online sales and the results are hundreds of bars of beautiful handmade goats milk soap bars curing all over the house. The house smells great, but there’s not much room left for the human kids (or the goat ones!) and so [...] Araucana (or as some people spell it: arakana and arrowcana) chickens are a South American breed who lay beautifully-coloured green or blue eggs. At our nsw farmstay we pop in a breakfast hamper with free range eggs and are often asked by the guests if it’s safe to eat the green ones. It sure is. They taste no different [...] For a girl who a few years back was more used to take away than finding her way around the kitchen, I’m not doing too bad! Last night we made our first goat’s milk ice cream using our farmstay goats’ milk. Thanks to the recipe by the SBS’s Matthew Evans, we were on our way. Out came [...] You know what’s cool? That it doesn’t matter what’s going on around us, we can all make little changes in our own lives that can have an impact and make us feel great too. Today’s change for us was switching from packaged cows milk to goat milk…that’s because Ivy & Kay arrived! Sure, not everyone has [...] San Francisco Mayor looking into turning the city’s wasted space into food-producing space! http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/08/BA5C18L6RG.DTL&type=politics&tsp=1 The threat of nuclear power, like the threat of nuclear weapons, has never gone away simply because we have other things on our minds now, such as the global economic crisis and swine [...] |
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