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Whilst peeling apples to bake a pie, Bec Pollock recalled a tip about turning apple scraps into vinegar. She bottled the apple, took a photo, and submitted it to the My Food Story competition. And...
View ArticleSHOP LOCAL Newtown 10-19 October 2014
Oh dear neglected blog. I’ve been busy! I’ve developed a new initiative Eat Happily, to inspire creative connections with food: grow, source, cook, eat, save and recycle. First is an experiment in...
View ArticleSommerlad chicken: an extraordinary chook
Chicken, once a rare treat, is now our most popular meat. We’re the fourth largest consumers in the world, eating 600 million chickens a year or 45 kilograms each. Supermarkets own the largest slice...
View ArticleWhy buy farmhouse, organic and unhomogenised milk?
As a child I’d put out the glass empties at night for the milkman. The next morning, full bottles would miraculously appear. We scratched the foil tops open for the cream. Such a treat! I hadn’t given...
View ArticleProduce to the People, community and food
During the summer of 2009, Penelope Dodd grew a bumper crop of tomatoes. And so it seems did many in her corner of the world. She tried to give some tomatoes away but her friends couldn’t take any...
View ArticleFrom Paddock to Potager: meet your meat
A delicious tree change Growing up in coastal New South Wales, Fiona May craved life in the country, so when it was time to leave the family home, she moved to Scone. This is where she met Stuart, her...
View ArticleSave Sydney’s food bowl
Australia’s food supply chains are increasingly vulnerable to shocks and trends related to the impacts of a changing climate. With Sydney’s population of 4.2 million expected to grow by 1.6 million...
View ArticleDo you know what chicken tastes like?
Our food is evolving and flavour is being diluted and redefined. We need to educate our taste buds or we will end up with a homogenous, flavourless future—and we won’t even know it!
View ArticleWhat’s not to love about village chickens?
If anyone knows chickens, veterinary scientist Robyn Alders AO does. Over the past 20 years, Robyn has been instrumental in rolling out a sustainable vaccination program that immunises chickens against...
View ArticleThe end of Sommerlads’ Poultry. And a new beginning.
As begets tradition, Kathryn Sommerlad emailed on Christmas Eve, four years to the day she first wrote to introduce her family business, Sommerlads’ Poultry, to me. The purpose of this email, sadly,...
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