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Gleaning

Mandarin Glut!

August 18, 2014 by Darren

What do you do with a treeful of mandarins or other citrus?

Posted in: Featured, Frugality, Gleaning, Preparing Food, Recipes Tagged: children, citrus, home brew, mandarin tree, recipe, River Cottage

Blackberry Pie

February 12, 2014 by Darren

If there’s anything better than a bucket full of free blackberries, it can only be blackberry pie!

Posted in: Featured, Frugality, Gleaning, Preparing Food Tagged: home made, pastry, recipe

Bunya Nuts: Preparing and Cooking

February 7, 2014 by Darren

How to extract bunya nuts from the bunya cone, and how to prepare, cook and eat them.

Posted in: Gleaning, Headline, Preparing Food Tagged: Australian indigenous food, bunya nuts, bush food, potatoes, recipe

Free Firewood

May 22, 2012 by Darren

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?

Posted in: Frugality, Gleaning, Household Tagged: Electricity, firewood, FreeCycle, frugal living, trees

The Cost Of Raising Your Own Pigs For Meat

February 16, 2011 by Darren

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.

Posted in: Frugality, Gleaning, Illawarra Businesses, Keeping Animals Tagged: abattoir, butcher, butchering, electric fence, feral fruit, freezer, fruit trees, meat, pigs, pork, vegetable garden, Waste, weeds

Gleaning Lillypillies

April 4, 2009 by Darren

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 … [Read more…]

Posted in: Gleaning Tagged: Australian indigenous food, bush food, Gleaning, indigenous food plants, lilli pilli, lillipilli, lilly pilly, lillypilly, riberry, university of wollongong

Feral Fruit Filo Pastry

March 9, 2009 by Darren

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. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Gleaning, Preparing Food Tagged: blanching process, feral fruit, filo, fruit trees, Gleaning, jamberoo, pastry, peaches, stewed peaches

Backyard Escargot

January 12, 2009 by Darren

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 … [Read more…]

Posted in: Gleaning, Growing Food Tagged: chooks, delicacies, eggs, escargot, food miles, garden snails, garlic butter, helix aspersa, how to get rid of snails, petit gris, purging snails

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