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MY DARLING LEMON THYME

Chive Blossom Vinegar + a little garden update

When I started this blog (nearly 9 years ago!) we had our little veggie garden going in the backyard of our first house. We grew as much as we could in the 3 small raised beds we had. Then we moved to Western Australia, and in the 5 years we spent there we tried our […]

Green tomato + ginger chutney

I know it might be a bit late in the season for some of you, but I wanted to quickly share this recipe I’ve been making for years in the hopes that it might help out a few of you dealing with a glut of green tomatoes at the tail end of the growing season… […]

cabbage, coriander + sesame winter slaw

I’ve always felt a deep connection to this land where I was born and a deep yearning to know more about my Māori heritage. Being of mixed descent and growing up in a time where only the brave held (fiercely) onto their culture, it was not part of my upbringing, sadly. Te reo (the language) […]

growing pineapples for free…

Si and I grow all sorts of random things in our garden. Some ‘experiments’ work out, while others don’t. If you were to look out in our backward right now you’d find a whole family of different-sized pots filled with tamarind trees grown from seed, chilli plants plucked out from my mother-in-laws where they had […]

keeping the bugs away, naturally

With all this rain we’ve been having over the last fortnight I’ve barely even looked at our garden. I have ran out to pick the odd lettuce or rocket leaf and we are starting to eat a few outer leaves of the kale, but I have to admit it’s been a tad too long since […]