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25.01.2022 Wonderful, wonderful news! "On the hill above Bruce Pascoe’s farm near Mallacoota in Victoria’s east Gippsland, there’s a sea of mandadyan nalluk. Translated from Yuin, the language of the country, it means dancing grass. Pascoe and his small team of Yuin coworkers have never done a harvest like this before. There’s so much grass that both sheds are full, and Pascoe says they are racing against the clock to refine our methods so we can extract the seed and make the flour.... We have got to get this done in two or three weeks before the seed completely drops. They had intended to harvest a different, more promising crop of kangaroo grass but it was destroyed by the summer’s catastrophic bushfires. As a CFA volunteer, Pascoe spent weeks on the fire and recovery efforts. His sheds burned down but his house survived." From a purely selfish point of view, I just want to get my hands on the grain to taste :) but from a cultural point of view, this could well be a tipping point; a point at which growing and harvesting with mother nature, not against her, starts feeding the population. https://www.theguardian.com//its-time-to-embrace-the-histo

24.01.2022 Lemon myrtle is just _lovely_ in general. Find it in tea packs or finely ground in our shop! https://bentshedproduce.com.au/shop/ #handmadevirtual #nativefoods

24.01.2022 The final Handmade Canberra (@handmadecanberra) markets are on RIGHT NOW! Get free express post delivery and a (really actually quite nice) gift, if you're among the first 20 buyers on the day! Look for me in the CANBERRA REGION DESIGNERS & PRODUCERS and GOURMET PANTRY sections at https://handmadecanberra.com.au/... #handmadevirtual #nativefoods See more

22.01.2022 Bush tomato (which we call Kutjera, also called Akadjura) is BACK! The 2020 has been the best in years, and we have a good supply of Australia's true tomato. Rich, caramelly sun-dried tomato flavour for all your savoury cooking. Small packs (20g) $8, large packs (50g) $18, both whole and ground. Shop at https://bentshedproduce.com.au/shop/ #handmadevirtual #nativefoods

22.01.2022 Fancy some tea and bikkies? New tea pack now listed in the shop and on the website! Or want one of everything? Check out The Works! From now until January 27, a portion of all sales from the new packs will be donated toward the restoration of Nura Gunyu, an important Indigenous training property, which was unfortunately completely devastated in the recent fires. The GoFundMe for this restoration can be found at https://www.gofundme.com/f/relief-and-rebuild-jamanee-gunya.... #buyfromthebush #australiannativeproduce

21.01.2022 In 2016, John Newton wrote "The oldest foods on Earth: a history of Australian native foods, with recipes". It covers much the same ground that Bruce Pascoe's 2014 "Dark Emu" does, but chattier, with recipes. Thoroughly recommended. It was pretty popular, and he decided to bring out a companion volume, providing more recipes and, particularly, places to actually source the products he mentioned.... I was privileged to meet John at a writer's festival held by the Goulburn Mulwaree Library in 2017, where I had a stall. He let me witter on about food and recipes and cooking and even managed to hold an interested expression during my wilder bouts of enthusiasm, which may not entirely have stemmed from my stuffing him full of bread rolls, bikkies and meringues :) Ironically, I wasn't able to attend his workshop, but from all accounts it was one of the best-attended there. He asked for one or two of my recipes, and I was happy to provide some. I had no idea whether they might be used, but I hoped they'd provide some inspiration. --- I am now beyond proud to present "Cooking with the oldest foods on Earth: Australian native foods, recipes and sources", BY John Newton, published 2019. A lovely hardcover book. In which I have _two_ recipes, a write-up in the "sources" section, and completely unsolicited compliments. I am, apparently, "a gifted home cook" who can offer a "wealth of information". *beam* That has to be the nicest way to say "will talk your ear off on the topic" that I've ever heard ... I'm a little overwhelmed. I CONTRIBUTED TO A COOKBOOK!!! Filled with lots of excellent recipes, suggestions, and recommendations, I'd recommend the book anyway, of course, to anyone with an interest in Australian native foods - but go buy THIS one and encourage John to write more :)

16.01.2022 Ooo! SBS’ Mastermind has someone answering questions on bush foods This should be fun! :)

16.01.2022 We’re LIVE at the Mother’s Day virtual Handmade Market! Don’t forget, FREE upgrade to Express Post shipping all day - just select regular post and we’ll apply the upgrade here! #handmadecbr #handmadevirtual #australiannativeproduce

16.01.2022 On Tuesday, when I dropped off my warrigal greens to Claire of ARC Organics, bless her innocent cotton sox, she anxiously asked I’m not running you down on warrigals, am I?. Dearest woman :). Nope, I think I can safely say we’re good for the moment. (All the green is warrigals).

15.01.2022 In light of the Pascoe "controversy" (something along the lines of "is Bruce Pascoe Indigenous enough for his wonderful book "Dark Emu" to be factual?" - answer: don't be daft), I thought I'd re-post four other books - three of which **pre-date** Dark Emu - which consider similar first-hand historical materials and come up with the same conclusions. That is: - that Indigenous Australians did, indeed, practice agriculture (the act of deliberately shaping the land in order to ...provide food for humans, in its narrowest European-style definition); and, therefore: - the "legal" basis for the colonisation of Australia - that of "terra nullius" ("no-one of importance lives here") is entirely null and void. Which does place us in rather interesting legal territory, if you really think about it. ---------- ** Rupert Gerritsen. 2008. Australia and the Origins of Agriculture ** Bill Gammage. 2011. The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia ** Jackie French. 2013. Let the Land Speak: A history of Australia - how the land created our nation ** Bruce Pascoe. 2014. Dark Emu: Black seeds agriculture or accident? ** John Newton. 2016. The Oldest Foods on Earth: A History of Australian Native Foods with Recipes ---------- This is actually very important stuff, which is mostly likely why the conservative commentators work very hard to try and discredit the 1/5 authors of the theory who happen to have Indigenous Australian background. The other four authors are all, to the best of my knowledge, European Australians, so _clearly_ (sarcasm) no-one needs to subject them to further scrutiny. (I'd like to see people try with Jackie French, who is a well-beloved fiction and non-fiction author with impeccable credentials going back decades, and who has most recently written whilst evacuated due to bushfires). I also list them on the Bent Shed Produce website, at https://bentshedproduce.com.au/resources/, so you don't have to try and remember them. Once a librarian, always a librarian ...

15.01.2022 Green Ant Gin’n’Tonic on a hot, dusty, windy day, with @pollyporteous. Please note actual ant next to the lime :)

14.01.2022 Learn how to make a warrigal green omelette, featuring yours truly and a rather windy backyard! https://youtu.be/ZtGjYaAv5ZE Video created by the talented team at Leather Satchel Films (for all your photography and video requirements :) ). #handmadecbr #handmadevirtual #australiannativeproduce

14.01.2022 Christmas shopping is all sorted for the year! Buy local, buy handmade, support the communities and individuals that have been hammered by smoke, fire, and pandemic. Handmade Canberra (@handmadecanberra) is online every Saturday in November. I'm at two of them - November 14 (in two days!) and November 28 (two weeks!). Get free express post delivery and a (really actually quite nice) gift, if you're among the first 20 buyers on the day! Look for me in the CANBERRA REGION DESI...GNERS & PRODUCERS and GOURMET PANTRY sections at https://handmadecanberra.com.au/ #handmadevirtual #nativefoods

14.01.2022 This is, naturally, a cause fairly close to the heart of any Australian native food business. This was our local Mountain Pepper plantation, just north of Braidwood in NSW, where Tasmannia lanceolata grows wild. Unfortunately, they were unable to stop the massive fires from going through, and have lost most of both the wild plantation and the small cultivated plantations they'd just started putting in. Mountain pepper is a cool-climate rainforest plant. It's not one of those... that will regenerate after fire. There's a lot of work to be done to help the forest regenerate and bring the plantation back ... we can but try. If you're in the region on this date, you would be more than welcome :)

14.01.2022 I had a visitor today to discuss native foods, so I may have gone a little overboard in the catering. :) I started Bent Shed simply because, as a rabid foodie, I couldn't find the cool ingredients I was after, so I figured it was probably easiest to grow/source them wholesale myself. Half of what I do is playing with flavours in the kitchen and trying to find suckers for taste-testing ... * Wattleseed coffee (no pics of this ... it's not terribly photogenic)... * Warrigal green bread rolls (as featured in "Cooking with the oldest foods on Earth: Australian native foods, recipes and sources", John Newton :) ) * Warrigal frittata * Pepperberry choc chip bikkies (from Cookie Joy To The World's mix) Cranberry and white choc with forestberry herb (strawberry gum) bikkies (Cookie Joy To The World again) Lemonberry meringues topped with an appleberry. Actually I forgot to give her the meringues, as I left them in their container, d'oh! But they were MEANT to be supplied. I had to take photos of the warrigal liquid that makes up the rolls - it was so incredibly vibrant! I make these rolls a lot and I don't ever remember the colour being soooo richly green. It's new growth, after the rain - the warrigals haven't done anything since winter, due to the weather - so I can only assume they're putting a LOT into this growth, to try and catch up on missing a good 6 months of growing ...

12.01.2022 Lemon aspen sorbet ready for churning. Frozen lemon aspen blended with lemon myrtle-infused sugar syrup and tonic water. I reckon we we pour gin over the top for gin and lemon aspen tonic slushie ... with @pollyporteous and @___.joemama.___

12.01.2022 One of the contestants on MasterChef tonight is cooking double-sided ravioli with warrigal greens and ricotta, in a kangaroo tail sauce. *glued to the screen making notes* :)

12.01.2022 Photo courtesy of Susanna Chung Photography :)

10.01.2022 Australia Post is a little overworked right now. Sooo ... everyone gets their parcel sent via Express Post this weekend! Just select standard post at the checkout, and we'll automatically slap an Express Post sticker on your parcel of delicious Australian native flavours to get it to you or your loved one/s as quickly as possible! While Bent Shed Produce's deal goes all weekend, it's particularly in conjunction with the Handmade Mother's Day Virtual Market on Sunday; please ...do get to the event and support your small businesses doing their thing from home! #handmadevirtual #handmadecbr #australiannativeproduce See more

10.01.2022 A lovely stack of express post parcels to go out! Thank you @handmadecanberra - looking forward to the next online market! #handmadecbr #handmadevirtual #australiannativeproduce #australiannativefood

07.01.2022 Is it even a seed planting planning exercise if it doesn’t take up half the floor??

04.01.2022 I'm proud to be a part of this Handmade Canberra event this coming Sunday! We're all online, via the single portal, in good time to stock up for Mother's Day, if that's your thing, or Just Because You Need A Treat. Pop by and see what catches your eye! All purchases on the day will be upgraded to Express Post without additional cost. Just to make sure it really does get there in time! #handmadevirtual #handmadecbr #australiannativeproduce

03.01.2022 I'm very lucky to have some insanely talented people working to produce new and improved gorgeous images across the website and social media sites. Let me introduce them to you! Firstly, updated header images courtesy of Susanna Chung Photography, featuring my beloved logo (by design capital) in true stained glass. Susanna's produced a lovely suite of photos that will start appearing in posts, even though it's not her speciality - what she _really_ produces is wonderful unfor...ced, unposed pictures of your family. And now, Leather Satchel Films has produced a suite of product images, making the shop even easier and better-looking to browse through. They generally provide film services to the TV industry but, again, Covid has hit that industry and they're using a whole range of secondary skills. (Plus, they might be my brother ;) ). Support your local artistic businesspeople, wherever you can; they're struggling in this locked-down world.

01.01.2022 Fasciated warrigal greens! Anyone else ever seen them? Fasciation is a relatively harmless abnormality in plants, where the stems flatten out really oddly. I believe there's speculation it's caused by a virus. For some reason, I get quite a lot of fasciation on my plants here; I assume some particular concentration or lack in the soils.... There's one particular spot in the warrigals where fasciation seems to turn up every year. I really should collect the seeds and plant them deliberately and see whether it's now a genetic component, or just because of something in _that_ particular spot. Isn't it cool? I even took a video to follow the stem all the way through the twisty bits at the top :) (which I may have to post separately as Facebook has gone and changed the rules AGAIN and I can't mix photos and videos ... ).