Your salad mix is quite pampered. It has been our habit to give your salad mix a bath and a spin dry before taking it to you at the market. But as of this week, your salad mix will be enjoying the full service - a bubble bath! Oooh la la.
In the midst of this drought, we rarely think beyond the obvious lack of water to the flow-on affects to the environment and to the wildlife that inhabit it. For example, the Bower Birds who live in the forest near our...
Unless you have been comatose for the last week, you would have noticed a LOT of smoke throughout the mid-north coast. And we here in Rollands Plains have been at least partly to blame...
A fire started in the Bril-Bril forest over the weekend, and made its way over Wallaby Hill to us on Saturday/Sunday. It came through our southern boundary on Sunday, and then slowly made its way into our property against the wind. Forest Corporation workers put a dozer containment line between the...
This was one of my Mum's favourite sayings to me when I was a nagging kid always wanting something - and of course it was Mum's job to deliver! Mum would just calmly look at me (or not look at me if she was busy) and say "Raise your hopes & lower your expectations". I never fully understood it as a child, but the older (and wiser 😉) I get, the more I 'get it'.
Expectations, especially of other people, will sooner or later cause us frustration,...
Hi Masters Of Fresh Community! It's Desley's sidekick Kelli here writing my very first email to you all!
Firstly a bit of background on how I came to be part of this beautiful family. After unexpectedly having to move from the Central Coast - where I'd lived all my life - I ended up in Wauchope not knowing anyone. After connecting with one lovely lady, I was introduced to the amazing Depression & Anxiety Recovery Programme (DARP) which the beautif...
Researchers are continually digging deep to discover the positive effects that plant chemicals have on the mysterious mechanisms deep within our cellular structure, and are often surprised at the power of humble veggies.
We have all heard how free radicals cause oxidative stress attacks on our DNA, and how this contributes to many disease conditions, especially cancer. And we now know that many veggies protect us from this damage, and even help our DNA repair! But hj...
Have you ever considered yourself part of a minority group? I don't generally think of myself as belonging to one, except perhaps when I am travelling away from the coastal strip of Australia and looking for good vegetarian, preferably vegan, food to eat!
At these times, I can be tempted to get a little frustrated that my only option is often an anemic salad sandwich, or good old hot potato chips - and we won't talk about the oil they are cooked in - blah.
Recently I h...
Do you remember getting growing pains as a child - those cramping, achy muscle pains that some preschoolers and preteens feel, usually in the late afternoon or evenings. Or maybe you remember growing pains because one of your children experienced them - waking you up in the middle of the night. I remember both. But although called 'growing pains', these pains actually have nothing to do with a child's growth, and actual...
When just a lad I saw what I believe was the first fruiting Avocado tree in Western Australia. It was on the Backhouse family's farm near Pemberton - the Backhouses went on to help pioneer the Avocado industry in this country - there it is likely you have eaten Avo's from that farm!
Years later, working for the WA Agriculture Department as an entomologist's assistant, I visited a neighbouring Avo farm, and experienced biosecurity measures for the first tim...
Last week I gave you a challenge to send me your favourite kale recipe. Thanks Nicole from Dolly's Run (Taylor's Arm) for a Kale & Quinoa Salad Recipe. And thanks Melanie & Michelle from Vege Out Cafe (Telegraph Point) for suggesting a Kale Panak Paneer - which I made this morning from curly kale and is pictured above.
Rachel also sent a few great suggestions: "When we were travelling Vietnam way back in 2013 we came across ‘morning glory'...
