"Apparently they don't give the side effects you may get from lentils either. A real win-win."
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As Cost of Importing Food Soars, Jamaica Turns to the Earth: New York Time article
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nth qld pig farmers doing it locally
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"We were feeding them to kindergarten kids yesterday during a school garden visit.Fresh picked with green pods.The greens are very versatile if you pick and freeze them and are sold as such in Indian grocers."
Andrew Cumberland replied to Scarlett's discussion Pigeon peas - now what?"I'm in love with pigeon peas! I just treat the buggers like a lentil. I normally leave them on the tree until they are way dry and shell them. You can soak them overnight like a split pea but I don't!
I picked some fresh…"
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Seedlings
Added May 30, 2012 at 12:09
CERES Community Farm in Melbourne
Added April 15, 2012 at 18:50
Old Paradise St Community Garden shots
Added July 26, 2011 at 13:01
Cooking
Added May 12, 2011 at 15:26
Gardens about town
Added February 7, 2011 at 19:04 1 Comment
jane st open garden scheme day, 2010
Added August 20, 2010 at 21:54
Sweet potato harvest
Added July 9, 2010 at 11:47
Some of my previous no dig vegie gardens
Added March 25, 2010 at 20:34
Pumpkin summer
Added March 10, 2010 at 12:50
Summer Jungle
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Harvest
Added August 30, 2009 at 22:19 1 Comment
Jane St Community Gardens are looking fantastic!
Added November 29, 2008 at 12:20
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My Victorian garden
Posted on April 10, 2013 at 13:00 5 Comments 3 Favorites
It's easy enough to buy expensive things and follow the directions and get beautiful (although often not very tasty or resilient) plants. Growing amazingly healthy plants using natural processes and products to be found in your own backyard (or front yard as the case may be) is much harder - but it is possible. It's a question of harnessing and powerboosting natural processes. Brilliant soil, teaming with microbes and organic material, is the real holy grail I think.
My garden's…
Continue Lots of baking, some espalier, and a new vegie garden on the way
Posted on July 25, 2011 at 12:34 6 Comments 5 Favorites
It's official. I can't live happily without a vegie garden. So I'm putting one in. Here is the 'before' shot of the extremely annoying patch of grass in the front yard which kept growing across the gravel and creating a lot of work.
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Continue Making your own yoghurt
Posted on June 8, 2011 at 11:16 12 Comments 2 Favorites
Equipment:
(note you don't have to have the Easiyo containers, see recipe below).
NB in Brisbane I recommend Barambah Organic Full Cream Milk, or Food Connect Herd Share milk. Because I'm in Victoria now I'm buying beautiful grass fed milk produced locally in the Western District where…
Continue On the sourdough journey
Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:30 13 Comments 2 Favorites
WEDNESDAY 25th MAY
I checked The starter that I dug out about one week later - a nasty shade of blackish grey, and smelled a bit mouldy. I chucked it. Will have to make a new one. I think Elaine found the reason - I had used boiled kettle water because I ran out of bottled water. I've bought some distilled water until I replace my filter machine.
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FRIDAY 13th MAY
Black mould…
Continue Temperate Autumn
Posted on April 28, 2011 at 14:00 7 Comments 3 Favorites
As you may be aware, I moved to country Victoria last December.
I'm still keeping up Brisbane Local Food because so many people are using it, and I'm proud of it, and I enjoy it, and I think it's helping the world which makes me feel good.
I apologise, though, for now being out of touch with the weather and what's going on for people in Brisbane, and having only an…
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Comment Wall (83 comments)
- At 7:03 on May 8, 2013,
Christine Cox said… Thankyou Scarlett Cheers Christine
- At 6:08 on April 4, 2013,
Lissa said… I must admit my first reaction was...what the! isn't that my pic? why has that person used my pic?? But then I realised what was going on lol. Happy for them to be "famous" :D
I had a similar, now funny, experience lately. One of the online garden sites is looking for pics for a calendar and I clean forgot I had sent some in. I followed their link to their FB page and there were my pics! I actually posted a comment saying "why are my pics here?" before remembering and deleting almost immediately. Unfortunately, they still ended up with the comment and sent me a testy little email asking if I wanted them removed lol.
- At 12:33 on January 22, 2013,
Pollyanna said… - I don't know how much longer we will get sufficient chill for any but bred-for-the-tropics stone fruit. Even my cassava and baby Saba nut wereleafless for only about 8 weeks this winter. The nights do not seem to be as cold, winter or summer as they were 30 years ago.
- At 14:55 on January 21, 2013, Pollyanna said…
- Thanks Scarlett! I've ended up at this site on several occasions when googling one thing or another. When it happened again last week thought it must be time to join. As warm as the last few Toowoomba winters have been, it 'almost' feels like I'm in Brisbane anyway.
- At 8:44 on January 11, 2013,
Rob Walter said… Thanks Scarlett. The site was recommended by someone I met on another forum. I went to her place to pick up some raspberry runners and I got a free tour of the garden, some extra things and the web address for this site. Her name is Lissa, but I'm not sure of her online name.
- At 14:36 on December 5, 2012, Liz Pardede said…
- Thank you Scarlett, for your welcome. I am a novice at growing my own food but enjoying the journey. I look forward to learning from you all.
- At 20:16 on November 14, 2012,
Andrew Cumberland said… Cheers for that Scarlett. Great site.
- At 23:42 on October 20, 2012,
Rell Oliver-Braddock said… thanks for your welcome Scarlett. I am looking forward to learning and sharing here.
- At 4:28 on August 28, 2012, Lissa said…
That would be an excellent idea Scarlett. There would be a lot of people interested in having one I'm thinking.
If you just get a heap made with Brisbane Local Food and don't worry about personal names then anyone could use them.
- At 6:06 on August 26, 2012, Lissa said…
I'm thinking not everyone will have the ability to print let alone in colour (logo).
Not everyone owns any ribbon - I know I don't - not worth a trip to the shop just for a bit of ribbon in the right colour.
Most folk own a name tag I'm thinking - I'll ask them to wear one.
And ask them to all post a recent pic of themselves so we can recognise each other visually.
Do you want to think about getting some "official" name tags made available for a small price? Won't be in time for this event but could be useful in the future. Your site is pretty popular and famous now :)
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