Pick and cure your own foraged olives, the traditional Sicilian way
Olives grow abundantly in many cities, yet often go unpicked. Here's how to forage a free harvest, then cure your own delicious jars of Italian-style olives.
Foraged sour plum shrub syrup + an upside-down plum cake
Sour plums ripen on street trees across Adelaide in early summer. Many folk dismiss these trees as purely ornamental, but the fruit can be yum! Here's two ways to use one batch of foraged sour plums.
How to make kombucha at home: delicious, bubbly and great for your gut
Kombucha is insanely easy to make at home. And the process of keeping a culture alive + turning it into a healthy bevvy with just tea, time and a little sugar is something close to magic.
![Wanna grow food in your rental but can't dig up the lawn? Anna aka @theurbannanna has a solution for that...
*unnecessary drumroll*
Pots! Grow everything in pots. That way, you can pack 'em up and take them with you if you need to move.
And they don't even need to be big ones — in her urban Naarm / Melbourne rental, Anna has fruit trees thriving in pots that are only 50cm across.
I love this 'just make it work with what you've got' approach to gardening. Simple, uncomplicated, effective. With lots of permaculture design thinking woven in.
You might enjoy the chat I had with Anna for my @abc_everyday column? (The link's in my bio.)
In the article, Anna runs through:
〰️ What types of pots to get and how to source them cheaply or free.
〰️ Which food plants are best to start with.
〰️ And possibly my fave hack ever — how to avoid buying plastic-wrapped potting mix, by using the no-dig philosophy in your pots. Genius. 🙌
Uh, I actually first wrote this piece almost a full year ago ... but realised I never chucked it here on the grid. Too good not to share, I reckon.
So, belatedly, enjoy. 😊
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