Grow, forage, cook!
It wasn't until we got to the poultry sale on Sunday that we realised how much demand there is at present for chickens. I think even the poultry club people were rather overwhelmed by the numbers of...
Hello to the newest members of the Fork family. Letty the White Leghorn and Dot the Australorp on their first outing in the garden.
Well there's been quite a gap since I last got to the computer to write a post. Life has a way of getting in the road of both gardening and blogging at times! We have been working hard in the garden...
As you may have noticed we've been focussed on local harvests recently and there has been no greater promoter of local produce and producers around Canberra than chef Janet Jeffs over at Old Parliament...
In late December I planted three rows of radishes as a gap filler before our winter planting. We'd eaten the French Breakfast radishes pretty quickly, but I got put off the Winter Round Black radishes...
Well after the excesses of yesterday's dinner we were after a smaller more relaxed set of meals today, starting with a simple bowl of breakfast cereal. Our cereal is put together with lots of different...
Oh wow, we had something different for breakfast today! Fruit bread, or more precisely Hot Cross Bread. This loaf, which was homemade(by our bread machine, includes some of our candied quince from...
Breakfast - the usual suspects, but lunch was a treat. TB had bought a large piece of beef rump from the local butchers and had broken it down into portions for us and some for our very spoilt cat...
Boy I think the hardest thing about this challenge is keeping up with the blog posts and remembering what we've eaten every day! Breakfast - you know the drill - toast and homemade jam. For lunch I...
Mahatma Gandhi said that "You must be the change you wish to see in the world". So we decided to take on the challenge of providing as much of our own food as possible and make our life more sustainable. We are living in Canberra (the real one, not the one the pollies frequent), facing the veggie patch, foraging for food, cooking and preserving our produce and dealing life's other challenges.
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