Real food – fresh & local. Food miles is about utilising local seasonal food. Many people need to be educated to know what fruit & veg is in season locally, not expect all produce – all year round.
Sometimes we produce fruit & vegies which are classic, and of course this happens when you provide them with a near optimal growing conditions – rich organic soils and the right weather. We have posted pics of some of the more exciting examples from our garden . . .
Michele below shows a staggered planting of sweet corn. See in foreground the young plants, behind them on the left the corn is just reaching adult size, and on the right the plants are fully mature, very healthy, and bursting with multiple cobs ready for harvest. We’ll be eating fresh corn tonight and for many weeks to come. There are rock melons under the corn on the right, plentiful and nearly ready. Yum.

Purple Podded Peas, they’re savoury, not sweet, great for pea soup, pea flour, or mushy peas.
Ruby Lou’s Potato, freshly washed & eaten same day as harvested.
Rainbow Chard which we call Ozzy Spinach! Oi Oi Oi (it’s green & gold)
Tropical Peach – “Prunus Persica” is a native to China

We had chickens hatch last xmas (2013) and here is one of the roosters at around six months old, and of course he wasn’t going to lay eggs so he was destined to be roasted. Organic and fresh . . weighing in at 2.2Kg and absolutely no food miles. If you like chicken, it doesn’t get any better.

Nicely Roasted

Below is a photo of a morning’s harvest in early Nov 2013. Michele presented this to her daughter for her birthday. About 15 varieties of veg, couple of herbs and a dozen eggs, all grown in our permaculture organic garden.

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