Everything you need to know about growing vanilla orchid in subtropical and tropical Australian gardens — cultivation, hand pollination, curing, and the extraordinary flavour rew…
Lacto-fermented fruit drinks — from Mexican pineapple tepache to Russian kvass and homemade ginger beer — are easy to produce from garden and kitchen produce in 2–5 days.
The winter citrus season in Australian gardens produces an abundance that can be preserved in forms that last months — and the results are among the finest preserves available fr…
Homemade jam from garden fruit is one of the great pleasures of productive gardening — a skill that is easier to master than most people think.
Cordials and drinking vinegars (shrubs) are extraordinary ways to capture the flavour of seasonal garden produce — and they produce drinks far more interesting than anything avai…
Wattleseed — roasted and ground seeds of selected Acacia species — has a complex chocolate-coffee-hazelnut flavour that is uniquely Australian. A guide to the edible species an…
Few plants make a more dramatic statement in the Australian garden than the banana. With their enormous, lush, paddle-shaped leaves swaying in the breeze and their extraordinary pr…
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