Soil Searching Diaries
Plants, recipes, ideas, thoughts, musings, questions

When Ernie first stepped into Brisbane’s Master Composter course  a few years ago, she turned heads - not just because of her infectious...

I spent a lovely couple of hours on two occasions visiting the Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden, AKA City Farmer, exploring this...

Apart from inmates, their families or staff, not many people see the inside of a prison and most would not wish to. Yet the...

After reading about Battery Park City Authority's dog waste composting program, I was very interested to find out more. It was amazing to...

Mexico City was founded by the Aztecs in 1325 AD and was built on a vast lake and a series of wetlands. This ancient culture created an...

What a perfect introduction to community composting in New York City – a Compost Bike Tour organised by the Lower East Side Ecology...

I wanted to get down and dirty in the City of Angels - beneath the glitz and glamour, the theme parks, the highways - deep down and...

One of the great things about walking rather than driving is being able to take the time to stop and fully appreciate the local street...

Autumn is my favourite season in Brisbane. Long sunny days, mild nights and good rainfall keep everything from drying out and becoming...

Chooks are a joy to live with. Their unique personalities are wonderful to get to know and their antics are really entertaining....

Suzanne Cox, 2018 This painting came after looking at a yellow rose and seeing the swirl of the petals and how they looked like the...

With so many edible greens growing in the garden this pie is different every time it gets made, depending on what's available. A...

Originating in South America it is often commonly called Queensland Arrowroot because it was once grown in commercial qualities in...

Sweet potatoes are well know for the delicious and healthy tuber but their stems and leaves are also a nutritious and tasty green...

Easy to grow, tasty and healthy these flat leaved chives keep giving. Garlic chives and society garlic are very similar in appearance -...

Providing a distinctive South-East Asian flavour to cooking, Makrut trees are an important feature in a sub-tropical garden. The leaves...

Chokos have a bad reputation in Australia. People remember them from their childhood being served up boiled to within an inch of their...

Spending time in the garden is a great way to get exercise and soak up a bit of vitamin D from the sunshine. In addition it's an...

Teas can be made from leaves, roots, flowers, fruits, stem or seeds. Whether they are iced or hot, relaxing, refreshing or medical they...

The work of Michael Leunig, the Australian cartoonist, writer, painter, philosopher and poet, is so whimsically accurate in his comments...