Foraging for wild herbs in Australia

On March 24, 2009, in the nose, by pauline
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PAUL Best writes in Epicure in The Age about foraging for wild herbs in Australia. Herbs such as purslane (pigweed), nettles, saltbush, river mint, dandelions, samphire, pigface and warigal greens can be found around Australia. Many of them have been brought here not only by wind, birds and oceans but by the First Fleet.
Samphire is much sort after in the United Kingdom and becoming popular in the food culture in Melbourne. Rock Samphire can be grown in Australia gardens.
Warrigal greens are another hardy vegetable that is found growing wild.

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Gardening the White House lawn

On March 23, 2009, in the nose, by pauline
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STIRRED by the good news that the White House is to have an organic vegetable garden, Michael Pollan has gathered these food articles together, in one of which he wrote about the White House lawn in 1991.

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Sweet success – value adding for canegrowers

On March 17, 2009, in the nose, by pauline
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SONYA Maley, winner of rural woman of the year in Queensland in 2007, is developing new healthy foods from sugarcane. Traditional sugarcane juice is being produced in Queensland from this value added process. Sugarcane juice is known as a replacement for apple concentrate and is used as a thirst quencher in Asian countries.

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Share your food stories

On March 11, 2009, in the nose, by pauline
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SLOW Food Perth’s food memories catalogue – brainfood – which was created last year and can be read on our website, needs to be fed! Sniffed out by the nose is an article in The New York Times by Michael Pollan, author of many books on food culture, including The Omnivore’s Dilemma, also asking his readers to share their food wisdom

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Food suppliers under the screw again

On March 4, 2009, in the nose, by pauline
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REPORTED in The Business Day on 03 March 2009, ‘Coles supermarket chain is threatening to remove some products if suppliers refuse to pay higher rebates’. A good reason to support independent grocers or to start a local co-op of good, clean and fair local food.

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