Are you wondering what to do with dried snake beans? Why not try this snake bean baked beans slow cooker recipe?
Author: Arch Gully
Mango & Passionfruit Muffins
A delicious mango muffin recipe for using up the mango glut
Mango Jam Recipe
Too many mangoes? why not try this recipe for Mango Jam to free up your mango glut!
Frozen Mango Milk Bar Recipe
Looking for a cooling mango recipe for a hot summers day? Look no further
Snake Beans
One of my newer garden additions thanks to a kind online friend who shared many of her seeds with me, is red snake beans. Snake beans (Vigna unguiculata ssp. sesquipedalis) are native to East and South-East Asia making them ideal tropical and subtropical plants. Whilst they can grow year round in my subtropical garden, the…
Turtle Vine
Turtle Vine (Callisia repens) which is also known as creeping inchplant is a creeping succulent that originated in Central and South America. Turtle Vine is a low ground cover plant with deep green leaves on top and deep purple on the underside. Like most succulents it can change colour based on environmental stresses (water content,…
9 Zero Waste Organic Processing Techniques
One of the permaculture principles centres around the idea of producing no waste, or alternately, finding uses for waste byproducts. Overall it makes sense both environmentally and financially to try and process your own waste into something usuable. Under that idea I’m going to highlight the pros and cons of each style of handling organic waste…
Hoverflies
Have you seen a little wasp like fly buzzing around your garden hovering in one spot? If so it’s likely you have encountered a hoverfly, also sometimes called a flower fly. Description There are many different species of hoverflies with some looking more bee like in appearance however all have the helicopter flying habit that…
Handmade Bread Recipe
Living a little bit rurally where we do can make it a bit tricky to have access to fresh affordable food staples, while I won’t bore you with my life story and how the discovery of this bread recipe is a game changer/life saver/… Insert whatever stereotypical food blog trope here… I will say I’ve…
8 Heatwave Gardening Tips
As I write this we have just barely entered summer and yet many places around Australia are already sweltering in >30°C heatwaves. Such extreme heat fluctuations can really cause havoc on a garden but there are a few ways to minimise the damage and help your garden thrive. 1. Mulch Mulch is undoubtedly the single…
