The Paddocks Of My Mind – A Farmer’s Perspective On Food Production
I grew up on the outskirts of a country town in NSW, and spent my younger years mucking about on …
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When to Give Up … Or Where Do I Put the New Mulberry Tree?
Keen readers of this blog will have noticed the penchant of its author to quote song lyrics by way of …
Cultivating Peace of Mind – Sprout Gardens & Community Market
If you would have a mind at peace, a heart that cannot harden, go find a door that opens wide …
A Small Place
I’ve unashamedly stolen the title of this post from Jamaica Kincaid, who, in the late 1980s, returned to the island …
Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down
Every gardener needs the equivalent of Neil Young‘s maid, someone to do the boring jobs, leaving the gardener’s mind free …
A Man of Mettle – Ben’s Nettle Soup Recipe
Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it …
Patience is a Virtue – Sharen’s Rhubarb Schnapps Recipe
Every time I mention having rhubarb in the garden, my mate Sharen says, ‘Mmmmm … Rhubarb Schnapps‘. After nearly three …
‘Auf Wiedersehen, Pet’
A final missive from Austria, in which Andrew Lang reports on the last few days of his bioenergy tour of …
A Letter from Austria
En route from Finland to Austria, Andrew Lang attempts to see past the large man with the window seat to …
Conversations With My Brain: Mr Sheen & The Lizard King
Welcome to The Buzz’s countdown to the Australian federal election. I was planning on jotting down some serious thoughts about …
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