The Mad Gnomes Strike Again!

The garlic is doing really well! Here a picture. Full post to be found here .

...made from reclaimed op-shop remnant fabric. How good is that!? This lovely hand-made gift arrived in the post a while back. Thank you Tel...

...at least for certain mushrooms and fungi in the forest. I took tons of photos of various fungi. They are absolutely fascinating in their ...

A great way to use up chillies and lemons! This pickle is lovely on bread or crackers, mixed into quark or ricotta, added to stews, pastas, ...

This is a cheese that I will definitely make again. It is tasty, creamy and crumbly. Another big advantage, it does not need long maturing. ...

Brought a bowl of lemon curd to the seedsavers' gathering yesterday afternoon. Together with some freshly baked bread. The lemon curd fr...

I saw a picture of perennial cotton flowers in a catalogue last year and immediately put it on the 'must-grow-list'. 1 (one!) seed g...

...and what to do with them. Another recipe idea - this time on Adelaide Kitchen Gardeners .

Or to be more precise - crumbed mushroom slices. After a good walk in the forest, mushrooming, you will be hungry. Clean your pine mushrooms...

...for wild people. Now is the time to go mushroom hunting. But if you are not sure which ones are edible and which ones make you go all fun...

It's a great time to go for walks in the forest. The air is crisp and clean. The silence calms a stressed mind. The mushrooms are just a...

...carrots! Our favourite variety around here. This summer I had a real bumper crop, for the first time. I had always been struggling with c...

We have just found a great place to get chestnuts, hazelnuts, quinces, pomegranates and feijoas direct from the farmer. Chemical-free. Go fo...

... or North African chilli paste. So, you still have some chillies on your plants and don't know what to do with them? Harissa is a goo...

A very kind and generous fellow gardener gave us some of his excess chillies. It was hard to decide what to do with them all. The choices, t...