Category: Cultural diversity

The Rocks Windmill stories>>

It’s all happening down at The Rocks Windmill. The sails are turning, wheat is being ground into flour, Diego Bonetto is telling some fascinating weedy stories, Costa Georgiadis is getting very excited about our daily bread and kids are loving the school holiday workshops. The Rocks Windmill The Rocks Square 12 April – 12 May […]

Plants Gone Wild

below is an extract from the article By Sheridan Randall, as it appeared on the latest edition of Open House Magazine, an online and printed publication for the food industry. Read here the full article> thanks Sheridan 🙂 Plants gone wild Foraging club Sydney-based foraging expert Diego Bonetto was involved in last year’s Wild Chef […]

Harvesting mushrooms with foodies

Because of what you do you get to hang out a lot with food affecionados: chefs, caterers, providores, producers, distributors, believers and amateurs. The common threat is the love for produce, its possibilities and the discovery of natural ingredients at our door steps. It is Mushroom season and you have started running harvesting tours, where […]

My Crown Of Weeds

You are reblogging here the words from Jennifer Hamilton, on the occasion when you went on an harvest to collect with her the necessary ingredients for a Crown Of Weeds… read on>> “A long time ago I promised to think more about the crown of weeds in King Lear. On October 12, 2012, more than […]

On Foraging Mulberries, Dock and Fennel

Joel Werner host a very interesting program on ABC Radio, Off Track. It is always interesting to get to talk to a producer and/or host, as you can then understand better the selection of interviews and the range of topics they cover in their programs. As he explained, he tries to leverage on perceptions and […]

amazing databases

The Food Plants International database covers some 18,000 plants edibility, just falling short of the estimate of edible plants in the world, which according to Plant For a Future, is around 20,000. Great respect should be paid to the countless amount of people devoting so much of their time and knowledge for all to share, […]

Media for Wild Stories, reaching the local audience

Artist shares wild idea FARAH ABDURAHMAN 21 Mar, 2012 South West Advertiser EVERYDAY plants found in your backyard could have health and medicinal benefits. Diego Bonnetto, an artist with a love of all things botanical, has developed a movement within the local community to encourage foraging for wild plants. The artist is working in partnership […]

on the common amaranth

It is everywhere around here, green amaranth, amaranthus viridis. It is a declared environmental weed in some places and a prized food in others, see what wikipedia has to say: Amaranthus viridis is eaten traditionally as a vegetable in South India, especially in Kerala, where it is known as “Kuppacheera”. In Greece it is called […]

Dillan and the games of youth

Baloonvine fishing rod a video by the weed one on Flickr. As you were in residence at Casula Powerhouse for the development of Wild Stories, you met Dillan, a young boy from the neighborhood. As it happens, this boy knows the local river shore much better then many other people. He comes down to the […]