The Art of the Garden at Heronswood
A week or so ago, during what might become known as Melbourne’s ‘windy period’, when it seemed like we’d never …
Category Archives: Winter
The Chard at the End of the Rainbow
All good things must come to an end. Chaucer, 1374 It is with some regret that I’ve begun to pull …
A Man, A Plan, A Canal, Panama
At this time of year in Melbourne, as spring begins to look more like summer, I spend a lot of …
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 …
The Dirt
Of and concerning the first house, wherein Tommy is caught with his knickers down and his baubles in a hole. …
A Pocket Full of Seeds
I’ve invariably got seeds of some kind in my pockets, which I’ve collected on my wanderings, or from friends and …
A Growing Community – West Brunswick Community Garden & Food Forest
To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts …
Lady Marmalade
Now he’s at home doing 9 to 5 Living his gray flannel life But when he turns off to sleep …
Hey, it’s Crunch time
So we find ourselves, our ways of telling unbalanced, trapped inside a runaway narrative, headed for the worst kind of …
Companion Planting
… my grandfather … was a smiling man and an untidy gardener. When you poked his cabbages, they squeaked with …
The Buzz 