Category Archives: miscellaneous
Cooking: Why I quit the first time.
Have you ever been verbally abused in the workplace for quietly doing your job? Or for doing something that you were told to do? If you’ve ever worked in a kitchen, then your answer to this question is likely: yes. I’m writing this in a huff and a flurry of thoughts brought up by this [...]
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Strange garlic
I’m sitting overlooking a valley. From my vantage point the progression of clouds can be easily observed; cotton wool whiteness meandering aimlessly across blue sky or heavy, dark and stormy and travelling north towards me. In a matter of minutes the sun will be obscured and a downpour that seems exceedingly ferocious to an outsider [...]
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Foraging on the farm
Yesterday evening I went foraging, not in the forest or down suburban streets or even under fluorescent lights, but in a veggie patch 20 metres from my kitchen. The winter growing season is at the end here in northern New South Wales and consistent wet weather has promoted rampaging weeds and voracious pests, but there [...]
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Size matters
Enormous Australian herbs After spending a year in Asia my return to the western world has me dumbfounded. The last few weeks have been spiked with reverse culture shock attacks, in the streets, watching TV and most harrowing of all in supermarkets. I knew to expect the oversized cars, the giant people, and large portion [...]
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A Discussion of Sustainability, Life on the Farm.
I grew up on an organic farm, before organic food was trendy. My dad grew Avocados, and for most of my childhood years during the season on a weekend, we would drive into town to the truck company depot and drop the carefully packed boxes of fruit. And they were gone, to Sydney or Melbourne [...]
