Get down for the gift economy
I ate a blood peach for the first time today. I picked it off a small non-descript tree in the front garden that I’d never really paid much attention to. This year it’s full of fruit and when I squeeze a small purply furry peach it has a promising give.
Mill Spring Farm
If you’ve bought organic stone fruit in Melbourne over past 30 years then you’ve most likely eaten Adrian and Valda’s plums, peaches or cherries.
Summer snow in Officer
With a rail link into Melbourne, deep, fertile soils, reliable rainfall and a cool foothills climate Officer was deemed ideal for growing apples, pears and stone fruit.
Doing for ourselves
I know Meredith Freeman OAM would be mortified (she’d use that exact word) that I’d mention her public honour as well as calling her a hero, which I’ll do now because she is one.
N.I. Tools
Recently I’ve noticed that instead of speeding everything up to be more productive, there are people around me actively slowing everything down.
The whole tomato rainbow
This meant that if you walked into a Bunnings looking for tomato seedlings twenty years ago you would only find a Grosse Lisse and a Roma if you were lucky.