on one mile diets

There are lots of artistic investigations out there focusing on the way humans relate to their surrounding environments, like yours. Ally Reeves and Robin Hewlett have an ongoing project about just that. One Mile Diet takes the concept of the 100 Miles Diet movement to a new height (or distance, rather). Here’s how Ally Reeves […]

on the ones you didnt know

Autumn slowly draw the curtain at a humid and stormy summer, the forests of australia sprouting mushrooms at a rate not been seen from a while. So much rain we had in the past 8 months, more than many years’ averages. We went to the Belanglo State Forest, looking at the place you read about […]

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 […]

Kylie Kwong and the pickled bamboo shoots

My partner Emma loves cooking programs and the other day we had a look at a DVD of Kylie Kwong famous program “Heart and Soul”. One of the episodes featured pickled Bamboo Shoots. Oh, I said, do ABC know they are promoting culinary usages of a NOXIOUS WEED? I still haven’t done the Bamboo page […]

Sorrel Tortilla

Found this recipe on ‘Australian Weeds’ by Gay Stern. Sorrel Tortilla 2 large potatoes, sliced into 10mm rounds 2 tablespoons oil 1 onion, finely sliced 2 shallots or spring onions, finely chopped 250g Sorrel leaves, finely chopped 6 eggs sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste 2 tablespoon freshly-grated Parmesan cheese Parboil the […]

Blakberry Panel

Here is the panel i made for the Self-Guided Tour of the Weeds of Australia now on at Wollombi. Over the next weeks i will slowly upload all of the 10 panels. The info-points are in PDF format, just download from this link. blackberry info-panel