Onions Everything smells of onions. Our kitchen, the shed, the verandah – they all smell like onions. My fingers smell of onions, staining the taste of my tea. My pillow smells of onions where my fingers have curled against my cheek. We left the second planting of onions too long in the ground and their …
At the end of summer we made what seemed like a big decision – to stop growing mushrooms and grow only microgreens. The mushrooms were beautiful and award winning and impressive but at the end of the day they just didn’t give us a reliable enough yield to make it worth growing them. Plus we …
The Clare Valley, where we live, does wine really well. It also does restaurants really well. What is doesn’t really do at the moment is paddock to plate food experiences, where visitors can meet with farmers, learn about how a particular food is grown and then eat a meal which showcases that food. This is …
The Watervale Experience – part of the Clare Valley Gourmet Weekend 2018 Read More »
We’ll be at our third Barossa Farmers Market this Saturday. When Chris and I first got down to SA we visited all the farmers markets and this one was our favourite. Which given how many excellent farmers markets there are around Adelaide is a big call. But for me, this one takes the cake. So …
I first visited the Territory on a family holiday when I was thirteen. I loved it from the start. Six years later I was back with a backpack of clothes and an enrolment form for NT University. And aside from a few longish stints overseas, I made my home between Darwin and Alice Springs for …
The latest edition of Pip magazine has an article by me on earthbag building in it! It looks so red and dry in the photos of us building our tank stand compared to the rainy green abundance which usually feature in any articles about permaculture! There are heaps of other lovely articles too and it …
Chris recently enrolled in an online course on how to start a profitable urban farm. It’s presented by Curtis Stone and Luke Callahan and based on Curtis’ urban farm setup in Canada. We heard about both of these guys via the Permaculture Voices podcast which we’ve been listening to for a few years now. And …
There’s a line in a Paul Kelly song which goes “all the king’s horses, all the king’s men, wouldn’t drag me back again, to Adelaide…..”. But here I find myself, back in Adelaide. And it feels good. Which is weird. But nice too. The current plan is for Chris and I to buy a fabulous …
Yes, peoples, commas, and artifacts of punctuation; Little Bunyip Enterprises are/is born! From the Coolibah creek at the bottom of the dune comes the whisperings of a long time ago….. Enjoy fellow bunyips!