Fat Hen-Chenopodium album
Chenopodium album (fat hen) is an erect, bushy, branched annual to 1m, mealy-white all over, especially on the flowers and underside of the leaves. Flowers both spring and autumn. Found in summer in irrigated row crops and wasteland. A very common weed of horticulture. Native to Europe. Edible Uses Leaves – raw or cooked. A […]
Autumn’s Mushrooms and the Cultural Connection
Mushroom picking is a popular seasonal activity for many European cultures. You speak from your Italian background experience, but other culture groups such as Macedonian, Russian, Ex-Yugoslavian and Polish do just as much have a well entrained connection with the activity. You found a fantastic essay about the Polish experience, Polonia In Australia, and attached […]
Mushrooms!
On Monday night Gary brought you three fantastic examples of Agaricus Campestris (Field Mushroom). They were fantastic in a quick fried pan with garlic and with fresh parsley garnished! You where so excited about the find of such familiar mushroom you end-up spending the next two mornings looking for more, to finally find one this […]
Autumn in the South Coast
Day 8. It rains, a lot. It’s a good autumn, wet and mild. The plants are happy, lots of them flowering and fruiting, celebrating and propagating after an harsh and very dry summer. Today Gary showed you and Tom the way to Beeweeree. Last time you tried with Jim to reach the site you couldn’t […]
Weed Meal
Day 6, you and Tom went to the island today, a wide stretch of sand deposited by the river. You spear-headed this walk primarily to follow a tip-off of a Prickly Pear (Opuntia Spp.) bush. “you get to the end of the track, where the rocky expanse is. There, on the left, there’s a group […]
Poplars!
Day 4, Beautiful, majestic, reminescent of far country sides. Poplars are omnipresent throughout temperate europe. In Italy poplars plantations are the only relevant producers of wood at industrial levels. Using just over 1% of the total forestry area, polars privide 50% of timber stock for internal use. It is also the main ingridient for the […]
I have to blog this comment
I have been extremely busy lately so that this blog didn’t had a post for the past 2 weeks, in the mean time though a comment came thru from Ian Andrews. I met Ian a couple of months back at a party and we had a very interesting conversation about the Natural Sequence Farming concept […]
White Clover
Panel #9 of the Self-Guided Tour of the Weeds of Australia Recipes: White Clover Snow 250ml Water 250ml Orange juice 250g White Clover blossoms 3 Tablespoon honey 1 Tablespoon agar agar 250ml Whipped cream Bring water and orange juice to the boil , add the trimmed clover blossom which should have disintegrated into individual florets […]
Fat Hen – Chenopodium album
The following description and recipe is taken from Antonio Carluccio Goes Wild, published in 2001 by Headline Book Publishing, all of the Copyright crap is just that to me,crap. In this time and age of wikipedia, opensource programs, file sharing and so forth the idea of strangle-holding information is just irrelevant, so there you have […]
Malthus nightmare, a short story
I came across this short story on my wide searches for weeds-related material, and i loved the recepies in it, very ironic! Written by Guillermo Ramos and published in his Blog in August 2006. This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to characters and events in this story is purely coincidental. The author is […]
