Today I’m starting a 3-part series on flower colours in the garden, showing you how different plants can create ambiance and different moods in your garden. Because Floriade is on again from 17th September, I’m using some photos that I took at last year’s festival to show you some examples and to encourage you to go and have a look for yourself this year in Canberra. Part 1 starts with “romance in the air” Read More
If you’ve never tasted home grown spuds then you ain’t lived yet!
They’re much nicer than the bland things you buy at the supermarket. They’re full of flavour and mail order catalogues have heaps of different varieties to suit boiling, baking, chipping or mashing so there’s plenty to choose from.
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This Friday 26th August is Daffodil Day. It’s a day to turn your office or home yellow for a great cause. The Cancer Council established Daffodil Day to highlight the need for research and funding into one of Australia’s most significant diseases, cancer. It so widespread that one in every two Australians will be diagnosed with cancer before the age of 85. It’s shocking and it affects all of us, either directly or indirectly. So brighten up your world on Friday and support 25 years of Daffodil Day in Australia. See http://www.daffodilday.com.au/
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What I learnt as I sat and listened to Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms was really quite common sense, yet … as they say …. common sense isn’t always so common! Even talking with another delegate, a farmer based in NSW Hunter Valley, highlighted this. He had suggested that after reading a number of Joel’s books, he didn’t know wether to laugh or cry. Yeah, I understand why. Our farming community has been so trapped into a certain way of doing things for so long that to think along “the Ployface way” would be to break with all the tradition they know so well. To change or part from this tradition would scar the socks off me too, if that’s all I’d known.
I love Joel’s passionate style Read More
What I learnt as I sat and listened to Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms was really quite common sense, yet … as they say …. common sense isn’t always so common! Even talking with another delegate, a farmer based in NSW Hunter Valley, highlighted this. He had suggested that after reading a number of Joel’s books, he didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. Yeah, I understand why. Our farming community has been so trapped into a certain way of doing things for so long that to think along “the Ployface way” would be to break with all the tradition they know so well. To change or part from this tradition would scare the socks off me too, if that’s all I’d known.
I love Joel’s passionate style, Read More
