“Those who think they have no time for healthy eating, will sooner or later have to find time for illness.” – Edward Stanley
The quote is coming from the self-confessed “half man-half hedge”, Costa Geordiadis, presenter of ABC’s Gardening Australia program. I’m sitting listening to some great speakers at “The Passion and The Professor” seminar for International Composting Awareness Week, and I’m delighted to finally see the links being made between sustainable food production and human health.
How many times have you gone to the nursery wanting to buy something to improve your soil (because that’s what they tell you to do before planting anything) and only come away more confused than before you went in?
There seems to be dozens of bags to choose from: potting mixes, composts, soil conditioners, mulches, manures and that’s just the broad categories! Mixes and blends are then labelled standard, premium, organic, natural, regular, certified, standardized ….. the list goes on. How do you know what’s what?
Read a nice article on edible flowers at www.treehugger.com but too often they forget to give us the botanical names to avoid confusion (and potential poisoning). So here’s the list again with botanical names. Read More
Stone fruit have gone by the end of summer but apples and pears aren’t due until late autumn (fall) so what do you do for fruit in between?
Well, I’ve discovered the delicious in-between-season cherry guava is just the perfect fill-in. Read More
I’m eating my way through a packet of dry roasted and salted macadamias as I tap out this story on the keyboard and I’m having a hard time getting on with it because their SOOO delicious! Macadamias are my absolute favourite nuts to eat, so when I heard that a visit to a macadamia farm was included in my recent Food Trail Tour of the Atherton Tablelands in Tropical North Queensland, I was chuffed Read More
