I put turmeric in my tea every morning. Just a half a thumb sized piece of fresh turmeric, sliced fine, tea poured over it. Add a little grating of black pepper because the piperine in the pepper makes the curcumin in the turmeric useable, and I have my tea with milk. It sounds odd but it tastes really good – a little chai slant on ordinary black tea. And I…
Remember fridge pickles? This is just another variation on that theme, and a really good way to use up cabbage if you are finding that the cabbage moths have ramped up to a level where the last of them have to be harvested now. If you want quick and easy, ready tomorrow, very delicious, failsafe, and will last for at least two or three weeks in the fridge (but you…
This is number two in my garden pharmacy series, a series (in no particular order) of the herbs that I think earn their spot in the garden at least partly because of their value as medicinals.
So, a series on the easy to grow, multiple-use herbs I grow at least partly for their medicinal use. A retrosuburbia garden medicine chest. After my cold last week, I started to think about how useful it is to have basic medicinals growing where I can just go out and pick, even when I am quarantining so as not to pass my germs on, even if pharmaceuticals get tangled up…
It is year three of this retrosuburbia challenge, and most days now we are eating substantially what can be produced from this little, 500m2 suburban block. No food miles, no packaging, no energy loss through processing or storage. With important gaps – cooking oil, dairy products, flour – but also with some surplus shared with neighbours, and at least in spring of a la Niña year and not taking our…
I have a cold and it has made me very aware of the value in having medicinal plants in the garden.
I saw a post on Twitter a little while ago, and it’s been bothering me ever since. I scrolled past, so I can’t exactly remember it. But the gist was that the writer was upset about mainstream media advice, that people struggling to make ends meet should start a garden.