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Bullet-hole bunny terrine — a place in our national cuisine?

Bullet-hole bunny terrine — a place in our national cuisine?

Bullet-hole bunny terrine with figs and walnut, served with tomato relish and a nasturtium and watercress salad might not be the food future to vegetarians and animal lovers, but it might be one way of dealing with this country’s feral animal population. The idea was reported by a woman who lives on Australia’s far southern coastline where wind whips the sea into foam and the forest conceals a surprising variety of ferals…

Farewell checkout chick — hello machine

Supermarkets may offer the chance to interact with a machine rather than with a human…

Apartment lawn to food in Maroubra

Apartment lawn to food in Maroubra

In Maroubra, Kimberley has turned her apartment block’s lawn into food…

Achacha a South American fruit marketed to Sydney eaters

Achacha a South American fruit marketed to Sydney eaters

A new fruit now being marketed to Sydney eaters is Achacha (Garcinia humulis), a native of the Bolivian Amazon…

Serendipitous encounters on a drizzly summer morning

Serendipitous encounters on a drizzly summer morning

It’s sort of strange how a relaxing walk in the morning drizzle can lead to encounters of the vergetative kind…

An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers

An edible garden for Eastern Suburbs apartment dwellers

The days when most people had a house and garden are gone. If cities are to feed themselves, then attention will have to move towards food production on apartment common land. In Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs, a small apartment block in Randwick has taken its first step towards sustainability by starting a food garden…

Xmas comes in with a song at Randwick community garden

Xmas comes in with a song at Randwick community garden

CHRISTMAS TIME is celebration time at Randwick Organic Community Garden. Thanks to the efforts of the Arts in the Gardens team’s Mary O’Connell, this year’s celebrations featured Ecopella, an accapella group that took the audience through songs amusing, political and frivolous. The performance was followed by celebratory food that the gardeners had made themselves, fruit  Read more »