From SAGE member Stephanie Williams A vast array of food plants will be thriving in the soil over the coming months. Here’s just a couple to get us started, and some nutritional facts we may never have known. Beetroots (Beta vulgaris) Right through spring and into early autumn these magical deep red globes packed with
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From SAGE member Trevor Moore It was pretty hot this week when I turned up to see what Leanne was up to. She loves being her own boss and deciding her own priorities, even though the work never lets up. And she’s outside. She told me she had spoken to her friend in Sydney who
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From SAGE member Trevor Moore It was the English poet John Keats who wrote in 1820 of the “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness” in his poem To Autumn. Now I know that it is neither autumn nor England but the idea of mists and mellow fruitfulness pervades my sense of the country and the
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Following the success of the Tilba Food Share, whose last event attracted over 50 people, SAGE has announced the launch of Moruya’s own food share group. The SAGE Food Share will take place on the 4th Sunday of every month. Residents of Moruya and the surrounding areas are invited to the SAGE Garden from 9am
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Leanne (gotta love that hat) hard at work supported by a more relaxed Georgie From SAGE member Trevor Moore Leanne and I write these little pieces every two weeks and every two weeks she says, “I can’t believe it’s two weeks since the last time.” This time I turned up at the SAGE Garden to
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Coriander pretty much ready to roll. And look at that soil From SAGE member Trevor Moore Every time I talk to Leanne I am blown away by her enthusiasm for what she’s doing. The beetroot, shallots, radish, coriander, iceberg lettuce, silverbeet and celery that were just poking their heads above the ground a fortnight ago
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Prior to this year’s SAGE AGM and probably over one or 2 beers, a couple of SAGE members tossed around ideas of how we can continue to contribute to the SAGE vision in the limited time available to us. What could be our focus? SAGE has many arms of activity and a requirement for people
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We’ll be eating this soon From SAGE member Trevor Moore The last couple of weeks have seen a transformation in Leanne’s vegetables and none of that transformation is due to the miserable rainfall, hardly a measurable amount at the SAGE gardens. Two weeks ago Leanne was digging her patch over with a broadfork and now
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Adding nitrogen the natural way: that’s a little bag of nitrogen on the tip of Leanne’s finger From SAGE member Trevor Moore Our SAGE intern, Leanne, has not been idle over the last couple of weeks. Last time we left her she had carefully wrapped her garden beds in tarpaulin that would cause the plants
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Tarpaulin… as far as the eye can see From SAGE member Trevor Moore The work of a SAGE intern is never done. And for the last few days Leanne has been wading in manure… almost literally. While her mentor (and SAGE’s first ever intern) Kyle’s been away, she’s been busy keeping things going. Her first
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