Category: Gleaning
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Mandarin Glut!
What do you do with a treeful of mandarins or other citrus?
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Blackberry Pie
If there’s anything better than a bucket full of free blackberries, it can only be blackberry pie!
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Bunya Nuts: Preparing and Cooking
How to extract bunya nuts from the bunya cone, and how to prepare, cook and eat them.
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Free Firewood
You can save a lot of money by heating your home with wood, especially if you can get the wood for free. Here’s where I get mine – where do you get yours?
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The Cost Of Raising Your Own Pigs For Meat
A complete summary of the costs for our first foray into raising our own pigs for meat, from piglet purchase right through to slaughter and butchering.
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Gleaning Lillypillies
My mate [Discopig](http://discopig.com/) and I have been talking for a while about picking some lillypillies (also known as riberries) from the trees around our workplace on campus at the University of Wollongong. We noticed this week that the lillypilly right outside our back door is dripping with fruit, so we thought it was time for…
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Feral Fruit Filo Pastry
A while ago I noticed some fruit trees growing on the side of various roads around Jamberoo. They looked like peach or nectarine trees, but I couldn’t be sure without seeing the fruit. I kept checking on them every month or so, and early this year saw young fruit that showed they were peach trees.…
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Backyard Escargot
Would you eat escargot (i.e. snails) in a fancy French restaurant? Would you buy prepared snails from a deli and cook them at home? What about eating snails from your garden? I was doing some research, trying to figure out how to get rid of snails in gardens, and discovered that the garden snails we…