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Thursday, December 27, 2018

So now the great Zucchini Glut begins at the Northcote Pool - expect lots of zucchini frittata at the pool’s Healthy Choices café #summerveggiegarden #northcotepool #zucchiniharvest #zucchiniglut #kitchengarden


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Monday, December 24, 2018

Part of my contribution to Christmas Day lunch - a Crayfish and a Babaco. The Babaco I grew myself, the Crayfish I caught with my bare hands at the Preston Market once I forked out $130 😱. Worth it though... #seafoodforchristmas #southernrocklobster #crayfish #babaco #bringfruit #homegrown #prestonmarket


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Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Cherry plums rescued from marauding Lorikeets, Cockatoos and Fruit Bats. In bird and bat world the ‘low hanging fruit’ are the ‘high hanging fruit’ so these were picked at the comfort zone bipedal primate level up to about 1.5 metres off the ground. What’s so fascinating is that the Lorikeets eat only the flesh of the plums and let the seed drop while the White Cockatoos eat chew through the fruit to get to the seed. Then the Fruit Bats arrive at dusk and clock on for night shift - everyone’s a winner! #cherryplums #plums #handpickedfruit #wildfruittrees #beatthebirdstothem #backyardfruit #summerfruit #birdsandbats #novelecosystem #urbanwildlife


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Wednesday, December 12, 2018

We loaded the truck, we drove to Dandenong Market, we planted out interesting plants with the Horticulture team from the City of Greater Dandenong and then we drove home via Roth Hetherington Reserve to drop off some Themeda Oat Grass (‘the other Themeda’). It’s always a pleasure to work with the gardeners at Dandenong led by the formidable Steve Nelson. These guys are a precious example of passionate and creative municipal maintenance gardeners working on 800 hectares of open space across Dandenong and Springvale. “Urban Green Space” gets a lot of attention in the academic literature for its real and potential ability to ameliorate a range of urban induced problems. None of this will happen I don’t think without investment in high quality and dedicated gardeners... @cityofgreaterdandenong should be very proud of theirs! Plants that went in today included Mountain Paw Paw, Babaco, Abyssinian Banana, Taro, Sweet Potato and more #dandenongmarket #municipalgardens #plantingout #highviz #highvizgang #novelcrops #panc #ensete #babaco #plantsofecuador #soapboxmoment #editorializing #urbangreenspace #onthetools


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Saturday, December 8, 2018

My mum turns 80 today! Here she is as a three year old in 1942 with her uncle Jeff and an orphaned joey. This was on a farm my grandmother’s family were developing on infertile coastal plains at Inverloch in South Gippsland after escaping years of drought in the Mallee. Jeff died a year later shot down over Libya in a Hurricane during the Second World War. Anyway, after a 50 year career as a nurse my mum is still gardening and while as Anglo Celtic as you can get a huge eater of her son’s Taro and Yams Crops! Go Mum! #mumturns80 #familyphotos #familystories #babykangaroo #joey #anzacs #kelpies #farmdogs #inverloch #kongwak


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Wednesday, December 5, 2018

It’s that time of year when the Novel Crops Project is distributing plants from student pracs and projects to community gardens. Here I’m with designer and facilitator extraordinare Kieran Dickson. He’s taking a Ute load of plants to the West Brunswick Food Forest and the Pentridge Community Garden. In case you’re wondering I’ve decided to dress like a Stock and Station agent from now on, partly in honour of my favourite newspaper the #betootaadvocate and for all round quality hort/ag class. #burnleycampus #burnleynursery #novelcropsproject #givingstuffaway #foodforests #communitygardens #westbrunswickcommunitygarden #plantsonthemove


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Monday, December 3, 2018

Freshly picked and washed ‘Pink Eye’ potatoes, at gourmet size. I remain firmly in the Underground Storage Organs (USOs) are the best carbs School of Thought #pinkeyepotatoes #solanumtuberosum #solanaceae #freshlywashed #backyardstaples #homefoodproduction #urbanagriculture #foodoftheincas #undergroundstorageorgan #acronym


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Saturday, December 1, 2018

I went for a snorkel at Gordon’s Bay, Sydney next door to Clovelly. I saw a couple of big Blue Groper, a few Morwong and a Wrasse, and plenty of algae (sea weed); certainly lots more biodiversity than in my normal haunt of the Northcote Pool #sydneybeaches #sydneysnorkeling #gordonsbay #talkingfish #snorkelling #decompressing #visitingmybro


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Friday, November 30, 2018

Growing peanuts for the first time, some as transplants, the rest by seed sown today, the last day of spring. This variety is called ‘Virginia bunch’ purchased from Green Harvest. The drip irrigation will consistent and carefully monitored as the packet says “avoid moisture stress as this can cause toxic aflatoxins to infect the crop” 😱#growingpeanut #legumes #peanutseedling #dripline #summercrops #burnleyfieldstation #novelcrops #lastdayofspring


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Sunday, November 25, 2018

Very lucky today to be part of a group workshopping ideas for the future of the Collingwood Children’s Farm. The Peacocks really make themselves known across the farm, both with their calls and through the in-your-face displays of the males - in this case a display of front and back! #collingwoodchildrensfarm #specialplaces #peacockdisplay #showingoff #toxicmasculinity #narcissism #imsobeautiful #chooseme #beautifulfeathers


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Saturday, November 24, 2018

I divided the Mother Corm of my Konjac/Voodoo Lilly and potted up the cormels. Here’s to many more generations of bizarro, foetid flowers and alien leaves, and one day clear noodles too #konjac #voodoolily #corms #plantpropagation #backyardnursery #alienplants #perennialedibles #plantsofchina #edimentals #novelcrops


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Thursday, November 15, 2018

We’re getting the kitchen garden at the Northcote Pool revved up for summer! New volunteers @maddylivingston and @patchworkgardeners are getting stuck into the strawberries in between weeding and planting #kitchengarden #urbanagriculture #summerplanting #northcotepool #volunteering #volunteers #strawberries #weeding


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Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Seedling Desert Sweet Potatoes being potted on for a graduate research project, with tasty ‘tap root’ swellings already visible. These are an ancient and still popular food for indigenous people living on country in arid Australia. A future food for the rest of us? Quite possibly a regenerative agricultural crop in marginal, dry areas in the not so distant future; we’ll keep you posted on @ambrosia_jess trials here at Burnley through summer #ipomoeacostata #regenerativeagriculture #futurefoods #novelcrops #panc #indigenousfoods #nativeplantsofaustralia #desertplants #seedlings #plantexperiment #plantpropagation #perennialvegetables #bushfoods #indigenousagriculture #ipomoea #convolvulaceae


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Saturday, November 3, 2018

Inside the purple-flecked interior of ‘Bun Long’ Taro. This is my first time harvesting this variety, originally purchased from Green Harvest in Maleny. It’s a delicious ‘fudgy’ type and keeps its purple colour once cooked...time for mass propagation! #bunlong #colocasiaesculenta #edibletubers #starchycarbs #starchyvegetables #tropicalplantsinmelbourne #novelcrops #panc #urbanagriculture #perennialvegetables


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Thursday, November 1, 2018

An Eastern Water Dragon on my ride home along the Yarra River this evening; not strictly native to Melbourne apparently but loving this really warm evening for a look about #urbanwildlife #urbanecology #novelecosystem #easternwaterdragon #riparian #reptiles #warmevening #yarrariver #wishiwasalizard


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Saturday, October 27, 2018

A Saturday excursion with my Regenerative Agriculture class at William Angliss to the inspiring Yan Yan Gurt Agroforestry Farm - 30 years of hard work by Andrew and Jill Stewart and family. Apart from sheep and timber trees there was a planting of Australian and South African proteaceous species for cut flowers and a Cob House straight out of Hobbiton but fit for humans with a green roof as a bonus. Thanks so much Jill, Andrew, Kristy and Hannah! #agroforestry #landcare #regenerativeagriculture #yanyangurtwestfarm #otways #deansmarsh #weekendexcursion #farfromthemaddingcrowd #proteaceae #banksia #leucospermum #cutflowerproduction #cobhouse #gaudiesque #organicarchitecture


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Thursday, October 25, 2018

My Konjac is flowering and it absolutely stinks! I thought there was a dead possum in my garden and literally followed my nose to this fly-attracting monstrosity of rotting flesh and mouldy cheese! Nature is wonderful! (You can make noodles out of the giant corm) #konjac #amorphophalluskonjac #giantflower #smellsbad #stinky #fliesloveit #natureisweird #novelcrops #panc


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Monday, October 22, 2018

I confess I’ve made fun of Iris collections and plant breeding obsessions in lectures over the years but after seeing these specimens in the Burnley Field Station today I seek forgiveness, for I now believe!!!#converted #iveseenthelight #roadtodamascus #gardenesque #amateurhorticulture #flowerporn #burnleyfieldstation #likeacoralreef #plantbreeding


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Monday, October 15, 2018

Sometimes you really have to cut the grass, slash the weeds, and trim the bushes - and mean it! The last prac today for the Famous Final Five was power tools and now it’s all over bar two exams and a park management plan assignment. Goodbye and good luck FFF and thanks for indulging my tangents in lectures, I certainly enjoyed yours... #powertools #brushcutters #hedgetrimmers #lawnmowers #burnleyfieldstation #sunsmart #wearinghats #studentswithstyle #goodbyeandgoodluck


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Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Today my students and I played host to gardeners from Cultivating Community, the Carlton Neighbourhood Learning Centre and the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre in our campus nursery where we propagated ginger, turmeric, sweet potatoes, yams and more ready for the Melbourne summer growing season. Pictured with me is Tessie from Papua New Guinea who told us all how desperate she was to grow and garden again in real soil after moving to Melbourne, coming from a culture with deep and ancient gardening traditions. Tessie has inspired us all to try growing peanuts in Melbourne. Thanks to everyone for coming today and to my students for being such great horticultural facilitators! #communitygardeners #growingplants #crossculturalexchange #culturallyappropriatefood #facilitation #propagatingplants #burnleynursery #cultivatingcommunity #asrc @c.nlc @cultivatingcommunity @asrc1


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Friday, October 5, 2018

Exotic things for a class propagation prac - all purchased at the Preston Market this morning. Next week we’ll be growing a range of heat loving veggies with gardeners from @cultivatingcommunity and @c.nlc amongst others, including most of the things in this pic. From top left we have Jicama, Purple Yam, Banana Flower, Sugar Cane, Luffa, Lotus Root and Ginger #prestonmarket #tropicalveggies #mexicanyambean #sugarcanestick #nelumbonucifera #asiangroceries #novelcrops #communityengagement #exoticthings


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Thursday, September 27, 2018

I collected around 12 so-called cockchafers under an old tub and donated them to the semi-tame magpies in my backyard; they’re currently feeding very demanding out-of-the nest babies. Magpies are happy, I’m a whisperer of sorts. PS no football metaphors, parables or allegories are to be read into this post #larvae #cockchafer #feedingbirds #feedingmagpies #beakfull #nometaphor #aflgrandfinal #backyardlife #aliensdoexist #thingsthatliveinmygarden


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Saturday, September 22, 2018

Antioxidant overload! Fresh spring leaves of Toona sinensis start off translucent pink before going green for summer. At this pink stage they taste like a combination of garlic, onion, bacon and savoury shapes with a touch of beef cubes...eat raw or cooked, surprisingly delicious #eatingtreeleaves #plantsofchina #unusualveggies #toonasinensis #asianveggies #pinkleaves #shinyleaves #freshleaves #novelcrops #panc #springequinox #happyequinox #nutritionism #foodasmedicine #justeatitalready


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Thursday, September 20, 2018

An obscure but fun mini-landscape of citrus trees in giant pots at the St Kilda Botanic Gardens - a bit of Dr Zeuss meets the Plain of Jars in Lao. They badly need repotting for fresh potting mix and more regular irrigation but at least there’s some signs of people doing interesting things in Melbourne’s often neglected urban green spaces #citrusinpots #stkildabotanicalgardens #citrusflower #bigpots #springday #nearlyspringequinox #urbangreenspace #canwehavenicethings #soapboxmoment


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Thursday, September 13, 2018

This way fella! Student Lucy Adams guides me to a watering can in a class prac on Therapeutic Horticulture where students role played plant propagation activities for people with injuries or disabilities and acted as facilitators. I was well looked after in a temporary blind condition. Thanks again to @stevenwellsthegardener for running such a great prac for my class in Horticulture for Sustainable Communities #therapeutichorticulture #urbanhorticulture #plantpropagation #burnleynursery #teacherneedshelp #kindstudent #couldntsee #leadingahorsetowater


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Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Our one and only Apricot is heavy with blossom right now and the bees are loving it! #apricotblossom #apricottree #prunusarmeniaca #beesonblossoms #beesinflight #springflowers #beesworkhard #burnleyfieldstation #urbanfruittrees #tooktenshotstogetthisone


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Monday, September 10, 2018

Sweet Potatoes- Awake!! In shallow trays of potting mix, lying on heated nursery benches, 10 different sweet potatoes will produce shoots for further propagation over the next few weeks - great work by @maddylivingston for the Novel Crops Project #growingsweetpotatoes #burnleynursery #glasshouse #propagation #bottomheat #gettingreadyforsummer #summercrops #novelcropsproject #gettingorganised


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Monday, September 3, 2018

The album cover for the Famous Final Five (and their lecturer) that we had to have! In 1975 George Seddon wrote a book on exploring Melbourne’s parks called ‘Somewhere to Go on Sunday’ where he rated Hedgeley Dene Gardens as one of most effective and beautiful neighbourhood parks in the metropolitan area. He also described how local kids would climb on the branches of the Chinese Elms. Well, I was one of those kids!! Today I invited the class to join me on a nostalgic revisiting of (safe) branch climbing. It’s been fun bringing students here for the last eight years... #awesomeparks #kidadults #adultkids #relivingchildhood #sunnyspringday #arboristnightmare #urbanparks #lastchildinthewoods #naturalplayscape #checkingmyprivilege #ulmusparvifolia #climbingtrees


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Thursday, August 30, 2018

The harsh realities of gardening: brown, burnt leaves after this week’s Frostageddon; the coldest end to winter in sixty years for Melbourne. Everything recovers and looks glorious by late December but this is why I don’t let first time visitors see my garden until summer (unless they’re into gothic hellscapes of traumatised tropical plants) #frostdamage #frostageddon #latefrost #fickleweather #thistooshallpass #seasonalchange #tropicalplantsinmelbourne #pleasewarmup #plantsaretough


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Thursday, August 23, 2018

This is what a paddock of parsley looks like (top) with lines of hydroponic greenhouse mint (bottom left), all grown in suburban Melbourne at Butler Market Gardens. Most of us grow our own herbs (😬) but if we ever (hypothetically) have to buy them from the supermarket most of the time they’ve come from here. Rick Butler took my William Angliss class around the Heatherton farm and packing facilities today and had a clear message that increased demand for herbs has made their sixth generation operation viable once again. He also made the students wear hair nets #urbanagriculture #marketgarden #fieldgrown #hydroponics #protectedcropping #sandyloam #parsley #mint #virtuesignalling #hairnets #excellentguide


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Saturday, August 18, 2018

It was a baptism of hail and cold for our first Farmers Market at Alphington! But hardy customers bought plenty of produce from the Burnley Market Garden crew and we were saved by the free breakfast from @miranda_sharp123. I sold Taro to a scientist who had worked on Taro viruses in Queensland and the Pacific for many years but was keen to eat some again! Let’s do this again @plantsandfronds and @kirstyed #alphingtonfarmersmarket #melbournefarmersmarkets #studentsworkinghard #urbanagriculture #novelcrops #bloodycold #chillfactor #characterbuilding #notenoughlayers #morecoffeeneeded #happycustomer


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Thursday, August 16, 2018

A world of brassicas at the Northcote Pool kitchen garden. Before long we’ll be down there planting summer crops but meanwhile it’s a classic cabbage patch #wintercrops #cabbagepatch #brassicas #urbanagriculture #northcoteaquaticandrecreationcentre #kitchengarden #timeforaswim #mixingbusinesswithpleasure


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Monday, August 13, 2018

Guys, for the last time eat the bugs not the brassicas! Meanwhile these lush crops are heading to @melbournefarmersmarkets this Sunday August 19 at Alphington, grown by students from @burnleymarketgarden in my subject Horticulture for Sustainable Communities. There’ll be kale, romanesco broccoli, Yacon, carrots, Oca and Taro in the mix. Come on down between 9.00am and 1.00pm! #burnleyfieldstation #urbanagriculture #farmersmarkets #australianwoodduck #studentproject #enoughalready #tolerant #iloveducks


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Thursday, August 9, 2018

American Ground Nuts are tubers on stringy roots, produced from a climbing legume. They thrive in wet, poorly drained soils. They are slightly nutty and sweet at the same time, slightly drier than potatoes. I thoroughly recommend them #apiosamericana #hopniss #nativeamericanfood #nativeplantsofnorthamerica #tubers #naturalcarbs #legumes #perennialedibles #novelcrops #panc #riparianplants #easytogrow


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Thursday, August 2, 2018

These Malabar Gourds are alarmingly heavy! The vines survive and even thrive through winter and are used as rootstock for greenhouse cucumbers because they’re indestructible; I’ve eaten them when they’re young and they were delicious as were the shoots - these monsters will end up in student cooking prac where we may take to them with an axe as recommended by @erictoensmeier in Perennial Vegetables! #curcubitaficifolia #malabargourd #perennialvegetables #novelcrops #panc #burnleyhorticulturalcollege #heavylifting #bigveggies


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Saturday, July 28, 2018

Sunday morning non-plant life forms in the garden. I’m still reading Darwin’s 1881 pioneering (slim volume) work on earthworms but currently stuck on detailed observations of which way worms like to drag leaves down their burrows- petiole first or not ?🤔Still, now I’m watching worms more closely than ever and in any season they seem to love living under wet newspaper! As for fungi I’m colossally ignorant; reptiles I’m much better at although I’m still not sure whether this gecko is native or a cargo ship escapee; the worm certainly isn’t but can possibly claim convict heritage going back to 1788... #thingsinthegarden #earthworm #fungi #reptiles #gecko #kingdomsoflife #urbanecology #novelecosystem #firstfleeter #mildwinterday #nomorefrost #imcallingit


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Thursday, July 26, 2018

“Whaddya reckon Pat? Is it ready to pick and sell @melbournefarmersmarkets” “Let’s do it Charlotte!” Despite hardcore attacks from Wood Ducks students from @burnleymarketgarden have nurtured some beautiful winter produce to maturity: kale, cauliflower, Yacon and Oca coming to a Farmers’ market near you soon! #burnleyfieldstation #studentproject #winterproduce #brassica #cauliflower #urbanagriculture #farmersmarkets #locallygrown #persistencepaysoff #accuratequote


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Sunday, July 22, 2018

Everyone wants to know, or should know, the difference between a spade and a shovel! The Famous Final Five are back (with special guest @bulbus_bulbvarian ) for Vegetation Establishment and Maintenance, getting the low down on horticultural tools from Andrew Smith who has 30 years experience working in and managing the Burnley Gardens; then off to the veggie plots to be blasted by Antarctic winds, harvest a few carrots and select some seed potatoes for spring planting #burnleygardens #burnleyfieldstation #gardeningtools #spadeshovel #headgardener #toolshed #depot #semesterhasbegun #winterveggiegarden #harvestingcarrots #chillfactor #thiswillbeonthetest


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Monday, July 16, 2018

I’m going to eat Rhubarb flowers for the first time, like bizarro broccoli... #rhubarbflowers #tryingsomethingnew #rheumrhabarbarum #polygonaceae #perennialvegetables #redstalks


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Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Burnley’s Banana bunches surviving winter well - it’s a pity looking at tropical plants can’t warm you up when it’s 9 degrees Celsius at midday #bananasinmelbourne #burnleyfieldstation #musaceae #winterwhinge #undertendegrees #itsnotthatbad #denial


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Monday, July 9, 2018

Three leaves and Onion Weed on the menu for winter soup - New Zealand Spinach/Warrigal Greens, Perennial Nettle and Okinawa Spinach (this last one still growing despite many cold nights!) #alliumtriquetrum #edibleweeds #urticadioca #tetragoniatetragonioides #nativespinach #okinawaspinach #gynuracrepioides #tropicalplantsinmelbourne #eattheweeds #stingingnettle #ouch #weargloves


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Thursday, July 5, 2018

Now is the Melbourne winter of discontent made kind of easy by tracery of bare plum tree branches, soul saving scent on Luculia and darkness smashing Kniphofia #winterflowers #kniphofia #luculiagrandifolia #scentedflowers #deciduoustrees #leaflessbranches #sunnywinterday #melbournewinter #richardthethird


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Friday, June 29, 2018

When your Anglo-Celtic genes fail you and you’re a hot sweaty mess in tropical Cuba, afflicted by a week long bout of diarrhoea, do the following: meet a Peruvian born Cuban surgeon at a conference who takes you to his spacious apartment to meet his completely charming wife; then find that he starts digging around for ‘blocking’ medication for your impending long haul flight, then shows you his father’s private photos of Fidel Castro; finally have dinner together where you all discuss Cuba’s future and its need to fend off corporate neoliberalism while still opening its economy and government. Mucha(s) gracia(s) Sergio y Roma! #hotandsweaty #toomuchinformation #bodilyfunctions #solucky #imustlearnspanish #angloceltic #vivalarevolucion #fidelcastro #neoliberalismsucks #firstworldproblems


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Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Storm clouds last night in old Havana before an hour long drenching - the city feels cool and fresh this morning #oldhavana #cuba #stormclouds #oldcities #narrowstreets #neighbourhood


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Sunday, June 24, 2018

Medicinal herbs for sale on a busy Saturday morning in old Havana. My colleague bought something for his upset stomach. From what I can gather most of these plants are foraged in Havana’s largest urban park, equivalent to say Yarra Bend in Melbourne...hoping to get out there next week #streetseller #pavementseller #medicinalherbs #medicinalplants #weedforaging #cuba #havana #dodgystomach


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Monday, May 28, 2018

Such odd ball plants these Oca/New Zealand Yams. I planted these straight into the ground from cuttings after equinox in late March. You can see that they barely formed any roots and just went straight into tuber production. When you do it this way you can plant them very densely! #strangeplants #oxalistuberosa #lostcropsoftheincas #reallydelicious #plantsfromcuttings #pinktuber #pinkplant #novelcrops #novelcropsproject #panc #plantsofperu #plantpropagation #stemtuber #ancientcrop


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Friday, May 25, 2018

Today was harvest and cook-up day in the plots for the final class of semester in Food Production for Urban Landscapes - always a great privilege to teach super-bright enthusiastic students who want to grow food! #burnleyfieldstation #lastdayofsemester #harvestingcrops #awesomestudents #changetheworld #finallyasunnyday #urbanagriculture #thatsnotazucchini #newzealandyams #oxalistuberosa #chokos #sechiumedule


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Friday, May 4, 2018

When too many Sweet Potatoes is never enough...today my class and I got soaked in cold sheets of rain followed by late afternoon sunshine - never has being shivery and uncomfortable felt so good! #burnleyfieldstation #rainyday #morerainplease #keepraining #abitmuddy #harvesting #ilovesweetpotatoes #teachingoutdoors


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Tuesday, May 1, 2018

The Famous Final Five decanting their Rosemary cuttings - counting and judging roots from different hormone treatments; what does better: 1000ppm, 3000ppm, 8000ppm or nothing? 🤔. The answer may just surprise you...or will it?? #plantpropagation #takingcuttings #plantgrowthhormones #sometraditionsneverdie #groundhogday #burnleynursery #lastoftheirkind #thelasttime #rosemaryisforremembrance


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Saturday, April 28, 2018

A 50 kilo haul today of sweet potatoes from the kitchen garden at the Northcote Aquatic and Recreation Centre headed to the centre’s cafe and to #fareshare. One tuber came in at 5 kilos (seen glowing next to @seedy_sal ‘s head). Awesome sweet potato dishes from @plants_and_fronds and @seedy_sal #sweetpotato #bigtubers #urbanagriculture #kitchengarden #studentvolunteers #gettingorganised #autumnharvest


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