A handful of beans
Early this morning down at Joe’s Garden in Coburg I find Vince Fittipaldi, Joe’s younger cousin, waist high in his broad bean patch.
November 3, 2025
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Spear in hand (it’s asparagus time)
The weather’s been warming up so it’s been a busy week in Maurie Cafra’s asparagus crop, keeping up with the world’s fastest growing vegetable.
October 27, 2025
Two in the bush
Starting tomorrow and for the rest of the week the Aussie Bird Count – the avian census that also happens to be Australia’s biggest citizen science event – is on across the country.
October 20, 2025
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.
October 13, 2025
How to build love
These are not the major milestones or the grand gestures that we mark our lives with, just millions of small daily acts offered freely without expectation.
October 6, 2025
Take a look at me now
If you take a closer look brassicas play an important role in our lives and are actually an amazingly diverse family of vegetables.
September 29, 2025
