If you know anyone living in Tasmania, you'll have probably heard us moaning at length about the terrifically awful spring we've just had and the general non-summery offerings that so-called summer has delivered so far (which somehow included snow and firestorms in the first week or so alone). If you're a fellow Tasmanian reader, well you've lived it so... I hope your tomatoes are ... Read the Post...
A year of foraging and garden preserves – the closing of spring
The final month of spring is generally time to get a lot of mid to late summer crops into the ground, harvest peas and broad beans and maybe even start picking a few early berries. It's also when the elderflower is in full flush and it's time for me to start making my year's supply of cordial. Elderflower cordial is one of my favourite beverage flavours and after years of scrambling around riverbanks or abandoned lots across the length and ... Read the Post...
A year of foraging and garden preserves – spring midseason
October outdoors was, to put it mildly, craptacular. Winds strong enough to blow your eyebrows off and still unreasonably cold.Plus I travelled interstate for a few days and then promptly followed it up by falling victim to one of the many and various plagues doing the rounds. So quite a lean pantry prep month, in short. Towards the end of the month I whipped out the dehydrator to preserve some of my abundant garden herbs at their peak and have ... Read the Post...
A year of foraging and garden preserves – the spring dance
Ah September. All the promises of spring’s abundance stretched like a cheap veneer over the cruel vagaries of winter, slapping back like a spiteful ex. Managed to lose another year or two down the back of the couch again, but I'm relaunching my blog presence via a hastily cobbled together plan to document a year in pantry planning – let’s see if I manage to keep it up, in between all the rest of it. Actual gardening aside, the food harvest ... Read the Post...
