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Here you can read about all things happening on-site at the Melbourne Food Hub, plus some great urban farming resources and recipes.
Radish Top Soup & Savoury Radish Salad It's winter in Melbourne and like it or not, we're all trapped inside. This leaves us with more time on our hands. We can use that time to relax, spend time with our family or housemates (if we haven't lost our...
Cheering up a rainy day with lemon curd
This week's Grow / Source / Eat parcels feature an interesting mix of lesser used greens - chicory, endive and fennel. While not the most unusual varieties, it's easy to use these greens in just one way (i.e. fennel & orange salad) and not branch out. Below are...
Farmer Profile: Annemaree Docking of Dalhousie Farm
Last week, MFH’s Comms. Coordinator and Grow / Source / Eat subscriber caught up with Dalhousie Farm’s Annemaree Docking to chat all things farm, food and future. Raised in Doncaster, then a peri-urban area ‘I grew up in an urban neighbourhood, but it was newly built...
A Good Apple and a Family Favourite
In the world of fruit, an apple could mistakenly be classified as your 'basic'. It's the go-to in everybody's fruit bowl, the staple in every kid's lunchbox, and one of the many things you'll see piled high at supermarkets year round. We think that just like tomatoes,...
Our First Broccoli of the Year (and our favourite ways to cook it)
The humble broccoli - #1 most hated vegetable for kids, #1 tastiest re-discovery as a grown up (obviously excluding Brussels sprouts here). Things we love about broccoli: - It looks like a great tree to sit under if you suddenly shrunk and needed to find some shade...
Green Tomatoes 101: How To Eat These Under-Appreciated Gems
Okay so when we think of green tomatoes, it's pretty hard to go past 'fried' as the initial word association. Leaving 90's films and southern cooking aside for a moment, these beauties offer much more culinary pleasure than you might think. It can be hard to seperate...
Food Justice Drive: Help Us Feed Our Community Today!
Since COVID-19 hit Australia, we have been working closely with a number of dedicated and compassionate businesses and organisations at the Melbourne Food Hub and beyond to ensure that our collective skills and resources can be put to use to help those most vulnerable...
Climate Smart Food: Gardening in a Changing Climate – Part 2
In Part 1, we looked at the challenges that climate change is creating for food systems and home gardeners, and talked through the steps of observation and analysis necessary for designing productive and climate resilient gardens. Now it’s time to look at some of...
Climate Smart Food: Gardening in a Changing Climate – Part 1
While the coronavirus pandemic has been the focus of our news cycle and public conversation for the past couple of months, it’s hard to forget that just before that, our nation was devastated by months of unprecedented, climate change-fuelled bushfires which were made...
Pumpkin Gnocchi Recipe
It probably goes without saying that we love local food for a number of reasons. Knowing the who, what, when, where, and how of our food is so important – it means that we eaters can have a meaningful dialogue with growers – we can better understand the hard work that...
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