Duang's inspired carrot and chickpea Makhani

Duang shares the inspiring story (and Recipe) behind her carrot and chickpea Makhani - a fusion dish born from lunches with Tamil refugee and friend, Raj, and meeting Alice Zaslavsky at the Bendigo Writer’s Festival.

Resources & Tips, Veg ActionClaire Rowland17 October 2021#vegan, #plantbased, eat for the planet, #morevegmoreoften, recipesComment

Tips to reduce your food waste

Every year, Australians throw away $2.67 billion worth of fresh food, largely because we don’t get around to cooking and eating it before it expires.

Resources & TipsClaire Rowland25 September 2021recipes, wasteComment

Broadies, broadies and more broadies

Broad beans are a fabulously easy plant to grow in the Ranges, producing copious beans for many delicious dishes. Annie Reeve and Lucy Campbell give the low down on how to grow and eat the plant as part of their weekly Harvest to Table series.

Permaculture Garden, Resources & Tips, SLF, Veg ActionLucy Campbell3 December 2020#food, gardening, recipes Comment

Rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb

Annie Reeves from the Permaculture Garden and Lucy Campbell from Veg Action share some insights into how to grow rhubarb in the Macedon Ranges, and some of the best ways to eat it.

Permaculture Garden, Resources & Tips, SLF, Veg ActionLucy Campbell16 November 2020gardening, recipesComment

Fabulous Fennel

Once again Lucy Campbell from Veg Action and Annie Reeve from the Woodend community garden have us drooling over delicious food and confident we can grow it. This week taking inspiration from Fabulous Fennel.

Permaculture Garden, Resources & Tips, SLF, Veg ActionLucy Campbell10 November 2020#food, gardens, gardening, recipesComment

Artichokes: delicious and dramatic

In this short blog, Annie Reeve from the permaculture garden shares tips on growing artichokes, a dramatic garden plant which is also a delicious addition to any diet.

Permaculture Garden, Resources & Tips, SLF, Veg ActionClaire Rowland8 November 2020#food, gardening, recipesComment

ISO upside: More homegrown veg

Let's take this stressful situation and turn into an opportunity to reset, get back to the basics and create some lasting healthy eating habits that are good for us, other animals and the earth. How do we get started, you ask? Well….

Hosting a plant-based party is not as hard as you think

Increasingly organisations and friends are serving plant-based food at their events. It may seem a little terrifying to think about hosting your own plant based party, but there are so many good reasons to shift the focus of our food away from meat - and as you’ll find out - it is not as hard as you think!

Resources & Tips, Veg ActionClaire Rowland18 January 2020recipes