Photo Friday: Passion flower

NSW Southern Highlands; January 2006 This stunning flower will trade beauty for taste as it turns into a wrinkly purple-brown passion fruit. Cut it open – or tear it open with your teeth – and devour the pulpy orange and black seeds inside. Awesome on their own, or as a topping on ice cream or [...]

Could peasants feed the world?

Are small farms really more productive than large farms? Or is this shonky reasoning? Is productivity the only measure?   There’s never a good time to be poor but it’s especially tough right now with extortionate rises in the price of basic food stuffs. In the past year, the prices of grains and vegetable oils have [...]

Save the planet – plant a garden

When I was a child, my family had a vegetable garden. I can vividly remember the dark green feathery tendrils of the carrot tops and the paler green ripple of the lettuce leaves, poking out from their bed of straw and compost. I took it for granted as a normal part of life, though if [...]

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