Category Archives: cooking

It’s our Birthday!

Posted on May 23, 2012 by

  This Sunday 27th we’ll be celebrating another year of gardening. It’s now two years since we launched the garden and time again to celebrate four seasons of growing, harvesting and eating, as well as making art, holding workshops, and … Continue reading →

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Twilight Dinner and Sunny Sunday Spud Harvest

Posted on April 19, 2011 by

Glorious autumn sunshine contributed to a most enjoyable morning’s work at the Community Garden’s first potato harvest on Sunday 17th April. With great anticipation adults dug and children excitedly scrabbled in the soil to uncover potatoes of all shapes and … Continue reading →

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Shared Table Fundraiser

Posted on March 1, 2011 by

Melbourne criminal barrister Charlotte Duckett will swap the court for an outdoor kitchen when she returns to Newstead in March to prepare the Newstead Community Garden’s inaugural fundraiser dinner. Charlotte, who has cooked in restaurants in London and Hong Kong, … Continue reading →

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Garlic and Garbage?

Posted on January 8, 2011 by

Is there such a thing as too much garlic? Our small communal crop yielded about 80 heads of beautiful garlic, harvested in December and now hanging. (See comments on December 2010 Garden Notes page for more about harvesting garlic.) By … Continue reading →

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Garden tails, er…. tales

Posted on June 3, 2010 by

Winter is coming. There’s a bite in the air of a morning and the animals at our place are preoccupied with food. This autumn has seen an extended growing season with plenty of produce still available until about a week … Continue reading →

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Changing Seasons

Posted on April 20, 2010 by

This year I’m thinking more about the change of the seasons.  Mainly because this year, the seasons seem a bit mixed up.  Instead of summer cooling into autumn freezing into winter, the season seems to go:  summer, summer, autumn morning … Continue reading →

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