Tag: wild food
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Braving the Boxthorn for berries
While I was out photographing for updates to our bushfoods & bush medicines page, I found that most of the Boxthorn bushes (Lycium ferocissimum) where I was wandering were in full fruit. Boxthorn is an edible weed, a prime candidate for delicious berries and it was a bounty that I couldn’t pass by. So I…
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Wild Quondongs!
Out today photographing for our upcoming bushfoods ebook and found a small grove of wild Quondongs. They’re not ripe yet but you can be sure that I’ll be sneaking back later when they are… via Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B1qbyiigIhq/
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Gardens can be anywhere
Though we may struggle sometimes to get certain favourite plants to grow in our garden, I am always surprised (and sometimes frustrated) at the way some plants thrive in difficult locations outside of our carefully tended gardens. Take a look at the pic above. It’s one of our most useful seasonal plants, Chickweed (Stellaria media)…
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Cut Leaf Mint (Prosanthera incisa) in flower
Cut Leaf Mint (Prosanthera incisa) is one of our favourite Native plants. This plant is commonly called Cut Leaf Mint, Native Thyme (not to be confused with Ocimum tenuiflorum or the closely related P. rotundifolia which also have that same common name) or Native Mint (I know, there’s a couple of those too…). We love…
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Kei apple bonanza!
Today, I took the time to visit my favourite stand of Kei Apple (Dovyalis caffra) trees. This is a local stand that thousands of people drive past (often several times a day) and, unfortunately, most go to waste, blown off of the trees by passing trucks and squashed on the road. I stopped harvesting when…
