A Garden of Giants
I love the sensual pleasures of a garden. Fragrance, colour, silky smooth petals, and the sheer unadulterated pleasure of just growing things. It’s exciting, gratifying and so rewarding-most of the [...]
Summer Salsa Spoons
These beautiful little spoons are a mouthful of freshness and are so easy to whip up in 10 minutes flat. I served them at a recent Edible Flowers Garden Party [...]
Home-made Turmeric Latte Mix
Why buy Turmeric Latte that's full of sugar and who knows what, when you can make your own from your own home grow turmeric? I don't drink coffee very often. [...]
Curried Lime Pickles
I’ve been asked to share this recipe for Curried Lime Pickles. Our lime harvest this year has gone into Lime Curd for Garden Party tartlets, Limecello alcohol and Curried Lime [...]
Saint Hildegarde’s Tea Shop
Saint Hildegard of Bingen was a German Benedictine Abbess, who lived in Medieval times from 1098 to 1179. She was already an accomplished student at age 18 when she entered [...]
Edible Flowers & Vegies to Grow in March
I’m still feeling positive so have just put in some sunflower seedlings. I’m hoping the dwarf plants will give a lingering, although small, crop of sunflowers. I love the petals [...]
The Melbourne Flower & Garden Show 2018
The Melbourne Flower and Garden Show was on at the Exhibition Buildings from Wednesday 21 March 2018. I was invited to speak this year on the main stage and on the Diggers [...]
How to Grow the Best Organic Bananas
When we lived in Ballarat, my mum-in-law returned from a Queensland holiday with family, raving about how wonderful it was to pick and eat fresh bananas from the backyard for [...]
My favourite recipes for fresh ginger
My favourite ways to use fresh ginger Super-fast ginger beer This fermented ginger beer is quick yet sensationally spritzy! it only takes three days to make whereas my mums recipe [...]
Culinary Ginger- How to grow it, & my favourite recipes for it.
Growing Ginger - How to grow ginger easily and successfully & my favourite ginger recipes Culinary Ginger: Zingiber officinalis If you live in a warm climate and have a frost [...]