Certificate: Discover Best Practice Farming for a Sustainable 2050 (2018), Certificate III Permaculture (2012), Permaculture Design Course (2011)
Category: Travel, Study & Learn
Tasting Australia: indigenous food at Italy’s global food event
Desert lime olive oil, quandong candies, lemon myrtle beer: West Australians gave a million international visitors a unique taste of our wide brown land at Terra Madre Salone del Gusto, …
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Bush booze: Indigenous Australian botanicals make a splash in Italy
Lemon myrtle, wattle seed, sea parsley, bush mint: they’re not the usual ingredients you’d expect to find listed on the back of a bottle of rum, gin or an Italian-made …
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Italy beckons Western Australian indigenous youth in cultural food exchange
I’m thrilled to see my first news article about Terra Madre published on the official Terra Madre Salone del Gusto website. Click here to read the full article. A love …
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Countdown to Terra Madre 2018
Check out my very first published video below (eek!). I’m taking the plunge into video to truly capture the incredible atmosphere, noise and colour that a million or more visitors are …
Portland’s hidden urban farms
Hidden a mere 15-minute drive from downtown Portland, in the city’s North East, is the unexpected semi-rural neighbourhood of Cully, which is brimming with urban farmlets growing food, flowers and …
Fifty Shades of Green
 I fell in love with Oregon all over again. Marrying an American means travelling back to the States to visit family is a semi-regular occurrence and one that happily sates …
Italy Mark II: Terra Madre 2018
I’m a big believer that if you open yourself up to opportunities and focus your energy in a chosen direction, the universe will provide. The trick is to recognise those …
Cider, Fire + Biking: A perfect Hills weekend
It’s Sunday night of a delightful Mother’s Day spent biking through John Forrest National Park. The house is quiet except for the peaceful bubbling and burping of fermenting cider bottles …
Flying high at Blue Sky Festival
Mundaring comes together to celebrate community and promote sustainability True to its name, the Blue Sky Festival was a sunny affair, in more ways than one. A demonstration of the …
Good things come to those who wait
 …or so the time-worn adage goes. And so, we will work, save and wait another year to go to Italy. I always knew it was a crazy ambitious goal: to …
Urban and Regional Food Declaration
During a chat with the Director of the Food For Thought Festival in Albany, I was given a copy of the “Urban and Regional Food Declaration” produced by Sustain: The Australian …
Albany offers Food For Thought
My family and I recently took off on a four-day road trip to Albany, five hours south of Perth, ostensibly to attend the third annual Food For Thought Festival, which …
Proud of our local Waste Champions
I’m thrilled for my friends Jeannie and Amanda, co-owners and founders of the Wasteless Pantry, who recently won yet another award for their advocacy work and innovative retail business. I …
National Fair Food Week 7-16 Oct
What is Fair Food Week? Coordinated by the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA), Australia’s Fair Food Week shines a light on our new story of food. From the 7th-16th October 2017 you will discover …
Embarking on a year of gastronomic discovery in Italy
I’m saying it out loud, I’m writing it down, I’m telling friends and family, yet still it seems like a delicious fantasy. A wildly adventurous, unashamedly romantic, ridiculously out-of-the-box idea …
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Kombucha from Pakistan via Abu Dhabi to Perth
While in the backseat of a cab en route to the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi last year, I had this box of Pakistan’s finest thrust enthusiastically into …
War On Waste: winning hearts + minds
The ABC TV’s recent three-part series, War On Waste, has been phenomenally successful in penetrating the mainstream consciousness. It’s a part of conversations in the schoolyard, at my local shops …
Woodworking Pt 2 – Dovetail joints
It’s now Term 3 at Mundaring Sharing where I booked into a woodworking course (in Term 2) to make a “simple” potato box for my pantry from Jarrah planks leftover …
Just Eat It. A Food Waste Story.
I’ve only seen this movie trailer so far but it highlights an issue close to my heart and I can’t wait to see the full documentary. It’s so great that there …
Wonderful woodworking
I’d always longed to try woodworking, so Jeff bought me a Introduction to Woodworking course at Perth Wood School for my birthday years ago. I made a very simple document/jewellery …
