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25.01.2022 Ever since we harvested our garlic chives at Blackheath Community Farm I've been looking forward to making Chinese Chive Pockets (garlic chives are also known as Chinese chives and in Chinese cooking they're used as a vegetable). Tonight, after a fabulous afternoon launching our Landcare Group at the Farm (which will meet on the 1st Saturday of every month) I treated the family to a batch of them. They're one of life's great taste sensations and I'm now going to plant way mor...e garlic chive plants! The dumplings are super easy to make and you fill them with wok-fried Chinese scrambled eggs, garlic chives, mung bean vermicelli noodles, salt and Sichuan pepper. Because I didn't have quite enough garlic chives, I supplemented the garlic chives I did have with a few ordinary chives and the flat green end of garlic scapes, chopped finely. Here's the recipe if you'd like to try it: https://redhousespice.com/chinese-chive-pockets/
25.01.2022 Permaculture is guided by three ethics: Care of the Earth, Care of People and Share Surplus or Fair Share. A big thank you to Dennis and Gail who shared their surplus seedlings with Blackheath Community Farm on Sunday. Dennis grew lots of Green Sprouting Broccoli and Gail shared excess Broad Bean seedlings and Salvia plants which will be wonderful for attracting even more bees to the gardens. We all got stuck in to weed and clear spaces and by the end of the day all the seedlings and plants were comfortably re-homed at the Farm. Love our community! We also planted out most of our onion seedlings, grown in the greenhouse, and transplanted brassicas from the fence beds which we un-netted.
25.01.2022 Weatherzone this morning says it feels like -12.4C! The cold winds are blowing and I cant stop thinking about how glorious it was last Sunday at Blackheath Community Farm as we basked in the warm sun, welcomed new visitors, harvested radishes, and enjoyed the beautiful poppies, and the flush of growth in kale, red cabbage, beetroot, lettuces and garlic.
25.01.2022 It was such a glorious day yesterday and we had so many hands on deck that we tackled a real eyesore at Blackheath Community Farm - the long beds alongside the fence covered in odd bits of wire and netting. We transplanted all the young self-seeded silverbeet and chard plants into our large enclosure (The "Don") and harvested the larger older plants. Well be using these beds for plants that dont need netting, like potatoes and yacon. I went straight home and made some Greek spinach pie! Well be planting even more young silverbeet seedlings so that by the time summers here, everyone will be able to take a bunch home when they come on Sundays. Thank you everyone who came ... it was a great day (more photos of all the other things we did still to come!).
24.01.2022 I suspect I have the most garlicky-smelling home in the Blue Mountains at the moment! Last week we harvested a bumper crop of garlic at Blackheath Community Farm and they're now 'curing' on my dining room table. We'll be having our Annual Garlic Sale on Sunday 13 December .... SAVE THE DATE!
23.01.2022 The bees just LOVE our poppies at Blackheath Community Farm. Three in one flower today!
22.01.2022 Lyndal and Marianne led the most inspiring first session for our World Heritage Regeneration program at Blackheath Community Farm last Sunday. We did a walk around the perimeter of the Farm to identify weeds and see the impact our domestic garden plants have had on the bush. We were most surprised to discover that one plant, which most of us thought was native, was actually Spanish or Portugese Heath (Erica lusitanica) which is a bush invader! You can see it all along the rai...lway line in Blackheath. A bonus was discovering which natives are flowering at the moment - Epacris microphylla, Sunshine wattle (acacia terminalis), Banksia ericifolia and tea tree (leptospermum). We started from the easiest place and removed montbretia and agapanthus from the mound of wood chip, and removed wood chip from around the trunks of the large eucalypts to allow them to survive. Looking forward to another session today at 10am ... all welcome! See more
22.01.2022 Our Coles Dwarf Broad Beans are flowering and the blooms are exquisite! There is no better frost-resistant plant to grow over winter. Not only are they fixing nitrogen, but every part of them is edible, including these delicious flowers. Theyre also lush and green at at time when a garden can have a tendency to be bare, and you can simply sow them everywhere and use them as a green manure crop to build your soil. While were waiting for the pods to form well be able to star...t pinching out some of the green tips to add to meals as well. This will help them grow bushier and produce even more pods. Win/win! The pods will be edible whole, when young, or the beans can be eaten later when theyre larger. They can also be dried and frozen. Well be sowing another crop in August because you can never have too many broad beans!
22.01.2022 Oh brrrrrrr ..... this was Blackheath Community Farm one year ago! There is only a slight chance of rain this morning so were looking forward to starting early at 9am and learning about bush regeneration. Well wait and see if it might snow later tonight?
22.01.2022 Were planning a citrus garden at Blackheath Community Farm. In our home gardens were currently harvesting cumquats, Tahitian limes and Meyer lemons, and mandarins are growing well. This is yesterdays bowl of cumquats! Any other recommendations for citrus in the Upper Mountains?
22.01.2022 Last Sunday we were delighted to see our first red poppy at Blackheath Community Farm. The growth in everything else was just extraordinary ... such a wonderful time of year and so many different greens.
21.01.2022 The miracle of life! One of the highlights of this season at Blackheath Community Farm has been watching our extraordinary parsnip plants turn flowers into seeds! They are taller than many of our farmers and these are seeds weve been growing every year since they were first gifted to Lis Bastian almost 20 years ago by Anne Jolliffe, Australias first female animator. She was a key animator on the Beatles Yellow Submarine in London! Parsnip seeds are only viable for a year so weve kept them growing and the plants have never been bigger or more prolific. It wont be long now and soon well be able to share these seeds with the community to keep this locally acclimatised crop thriving in Blackheath.
21.01.2022 With the weather warming up our harvests are getting bigger each week at Blackheath Community Farm. This week we harvested snowpeas, purple broccoli, red and black kale, a variety of lettuces, rocket, green and red elk mizuna, red mustard, parsley, chives, cress and radishes. Tonight for dinner I used some of the harvest to make crispy black kale, walnut, herb and cheese turnovers with mixed green salad. Glad there are lots leftover for lunch tomorrow too!
20.01.2022 We were thrilled to see our first Mammoth Melting snow pea flower at Blackheath Community Farm on Sunday. Wont be long now until we can start harvesting peas! Our garlic is coming along well and our butter lettuces, which weve been growing from our own seed now for three years, are looking gorgeous. This weeks harvest included lettuces (butter and red cos), rocket, radishes, red kale, brussels sprouts, silverbeet, mizuna and cauliflower. Who said you cant grow food in Blackheath in winter?
20.01.2022 Its a glorious sunny day and were looking forward to another day of food growing AND bush regeneration around Blackheath Community Farm.
19.01.2022 'Professor' Lyndall Crompton who runs Blackheath Community Farm's Compost Lab, also volunteers with Farm It Forward!
18.01.2022 Peering into a seeding carrot head is like gazing into the cosmos ....
18.01.2022 Professor Lyndall Cromptons Compost Lab at Blackheath Community Farm just keeps getting better and better. So much of Blackheaths organic waste, including our weekly contributions from the Vipassana Meditation Blackheath and Sydney Centre, is being turned into rich compost and feeding our growing worm farms. A huge thank you to the Blue Mountains Edible Garden Trail for the grant funding thats made our Compost Lab possible.
17.01.2022 What a hoot! Here we are all roaring with laughter at Blackheath Community Farm as we discovered what appears to be a BROWN cabbage moth on our broad beans on Sunday! Wed just written a post about FAKE news, because land cress doesnt kill WHITE Cabbage Butterfly caterpillars, but it does kill some brown cabbage moth caterpillars (which wed never seen before ... but here one is!!!). The land cress right next to the broad beans is fall of holes but there are hardly any on our broad beans. We have resumed planting land cress around all our brassicas!!!!
16.01.2022 On Sunday I made three jars of radish pod pickles after we took out some radish plants at the Farm. Today we taste-tested them on toasted caraway rye, with Blackheath Community Farm red cos lettuce and a broad bean/avocado/lemon juice/honey/dijon mustard/olive oil dip. All I can say is lunch doesn't get much better than this and I'm contemplating planting more radishes just for their soft young seed pods! I'll bring a jar to the Farm next Sunday if you'd like to try them!
16.01.2022 These funghi in Blackheath Community Farms Hugel bed are too beautiful to harvest! In fact, half the time were reluctant to harvest anything because it just looks so beautiful growing!!!!
15.01.2022 The Big Fix is thrilled to have received a grant from Family First Credit Union to help fund the work weve been doing during COVID with storytelling through our Blackheath Local News, and community connection and food growing through Blackheath Community Farm. Were also kickstarting our World Heritage Regeneration program on Sunday 9 August at the Farm. You can read August Local News below, and watch a video interview we did with Phil Hopkins from Blackheath Mitre 10 at our website here: https://bit.ly/2DpoqQS
14.01.2022 What a cicada season! As everyone chatted about the different varieties of cicada (there are more than 200 Australian species!) this little one quietly worked out how to move around a broad bean plant at Blackheath Community Farm last Sunday.
14.01.2022 Today at the Farm we tapped into our inner hunter-gatherer and harvested, harvested, harvested .... #communityfarming #harvest
13.01.2022 Do you have any produce you'd like to share at the Crop Swap Tent tomorrow at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre where the Centre will also be launching its own bushtucker and veggie garden? Lis Bastian from The Big Fix and Blackheath Community Farm will be part of a Courtyard Picnic and Talk Panel at the Blue Mountains Cultural Centre this Saturday 28 November. At 11am she'll be talking about Re-Designing the Future and the work being done by local residents who have been s...everely impacted by the fires over the last year - most importantly to rehydrate our landscapes. She'll talk about how one property survived the fires for a second time on the Darling Causeway and the exciting proposal for a Rainforest Conservancy at the Mounts ... as well as ways everyone can become involved in other World Heritage Regeneration programs. She'll be followed at 11.30am by Leanne Thompson speaking about the inspiring Capertee Hydrology Project. Lunch hampers will be available for a courtyard picnic and there will be live music and kids activities as well as planting sessions to help launch the Cultural Centre’s own rooftop bushtucker and veggie garden! You can also buy veges to take home from the Blue Mountains Food Coop tent or bring produce from your own backyard to swap with others at the Crop Swap tent. The event is free but bookings for all of the above are essential due to COVID and you can read more and book here: https://bit.ly/39kb4TO
13.01.2022 Did you know that worm castings (poo!) can contain 5 times more nitrogen, 7 times more phosphorus and 1000 times more beneficial bacteria than the original soil you introduce worms to; and that having abundant worms in your soil can actually increase water absorption by up to 90%! Professor Lyndall Crompton from the Blackheath Community Farm Compost Lab discusses how you can add a worm tower to your garden bed in our latest blog post here: https://bit.ly/2CRRHnd
13.01.2022 We've had a very busy and exciting few weeks at Blackheath Community Farm and welcomed new farmers and bush regenerators. We've harvested purple sprouting broccoli, silverbeet and ruby chard, red mustard and red elk mizuna, green mizuna, red kale, rocket, chives, land cress, broad bean tips and flowers, a variety of lettuces and parsnip seeds ... and we were thrilled to be given some tiny purple popping corn seeds. Can't wait to get those growing. We also planted out more of ...our seedlings (including onions and scallions). After our first three weeks of our new bush regeneration program we're putting together some videos to share which we'll put up soon. We've learnt to spot beautiful patches of bushland and gently remove the weed encroaching on them and we've removed a massive amount of weed already. Check out the bizarre agapanthus root which has grown through a pine cone, which, in turn, is being consumed by mycellium. Our ongoing bush regen sessions will be on the first and third Sunday of every month (including today), and we'll also continue our food farming every Sunday ... all welcome!
13.01.2022 A huge thank you to all the helpers who braved the cold bleak day yesterday at Blackheath Community Farm! We built compost, refreshed and weeded garden beds, transplanted self-seeded lettuces and calendula, and harvested mizuna, red kale, rocket, land cress and radishes.
10.01.2022 Hahaha ... no, this is not a triffid! This is one of the sunflowers we grew at Blackheath Community Farm after I took all the seeds out of it! Were looking forward to planting lots more next summer. (for some reason all my thoughts are on summer this week!)
10.01.2022 Yesterday started out gloriously sunny at Blackheath Community Farm. Dennis and Sue did the hard work of finishing off our final garden bed which required raising the whole ground level (it was sloping away down the side of our enclosure). We saved and planted seed - garlic chives and coriander straight into the garden; and cabbages (Danish Ballhead and Late Flat Dutch), Leeks (Jaune du Poitu, King Richard and farm seed), Red Rib Brussels Sprouts, Baby Bok Choi, and Red Iceberg Lettuce into punnets. We welcomed visitors while it was still sunny, then we were driven out by a massive hail storm and downpour.
09.01.2022 Oh so thats how Brussels Sprouts grow! .... and who knew you could grow purple ones!!!!! Theyre so delicious were now planting lots more at Blackheath Community Farm for next year.
09.01.2022 Guess what we planted today at Blackheath Community Farm?
09.01.2022 It's a glorious sunny day and we're looking forward to another day of food growing AND bush regeneration around Blackheath Community Farm.
09.01.2022 Even slap bang in the middle of winter there are still so many flowers at Blackheath Community Farm - rosemary, rocket, broad beans, calendula and poppies!
09.01.2022 There's a jungle of flowers for bees at Blackheath Community Farm at the moment and this abundance of colour added to the joy of last Sunday when we all met up again and got stuck into mowing, harvesting (garlic, peas, broad beans, lettuce, silverbeet, broccoli, garlic scapes and strawberries) tidying and weeding. We also welcomed the new bonsai group which will meet monthly on the second Sunday of the month. We'll be back at 10am today to enjoy each other's company, care for the bushland around the Farm with our Landcare Group, and plant lots and lots of seed. All welcome.
09.01.2022 Intrepid Farmer Haute Couture at Blackheath Community Farm today! For those brave enough to face the bitter cold and rain we did a small, exclusive tour of the estate, marvelling at the growth; harvested raspberries; then retreated to the greenhouse to do some tidying and seed saving!
08.01.2022 Weve had a very busy and exciting few weeks at Blackheath Community Farm and welcomed new farmers and bush regenerators. Weve harvested purple sprouting broccoli, silverbeet and ruby chard, red mustard and red elk mizuna, green mizuna, red kale, rocket, chives, land cress, broad bean tips and flowers, a variety of lettuces and parsnip seeds ... and we were thrilled to be given some tiny purple popping corn seeds. Cant wait to get those growing. We also planted out more of ...our seedlings (including onions and scallions). After our first three weeks of our new bush regeneration program were putting together some videos to share which well put up soon. Weve learnt to spot beautiful patches of bushland and gently remove the weed encroaching on them and weve removed a massive amount of weed already. Check out the bizarre agapanthus root which has grown through a pine cone, which, in turn, is being consumed by mycellium. Our ongoing bush regen sessions will be on the first and third Sunday of every month (including today), and well also continue our food farming every Sunday ... all welcome!
08.01.2022 When you nurture a plant from seed over many months every part of that plant becomes precious. It feels like a travesty to throw any of it away. In my home garden today I harvested 2 kohlrabi that I've been nurturing for months. They are exquisite plants. So for dinner tonight I roasted the peeled root with thyme, alongside some butternut pumpkin; cooked the stems with red wine and sugar to make kohlrabi jam; and made a delicious slaw with the leaves ... adding orange, apple, walnuts, dried currants, red capsicum and mayonnaise. It was a very special meal worthy of a very special plant.
08.01.2022 It's astonishing how much a group of people working together can achieve ... it's matched only by the extraordinary productivity of nature itself! Blackheath Community Farm was stunning last weekend. The Love-in-a-mist (nigella) were in full bloom, our onions and apples are forming beautifully, our alfalfa is flowering, our self-seeded buckwheat has taken off and strawberry season has well and truly begun. We transplanted lots of celery seedlings and some ground cherries; pla...nted 8 more bean varieties, as well as corn, sunflowers, parsnips and cucumbers; began staking our tomatoes; and did a massive weed because EVERYTHING is growing so very well. We also enjoyed another of our wonderful lunches with Geoffrey's delicious sour dough, and we harvested radish pods, broad beans, peas, strawberries, scallions, snow peas, broccoli. lettuces and stinging nettle. We'll be back at 10am today. All welcome. PS. Our annual garlic sale on Dec 13 will be massive! Save the date. See more
08.01.2022 So tonight I put two varieties of sweet potato from Megalong Farm into jars to start growing slips so that we can also grow sweet potatoes at Blackheath Community Farm next summer. They were so huge it was a challenge finding jars big enough, and one even had to have its sides trimmed off to fit! Ill post updates as they grow!... This is a great video if youd like to know more and grow your own: https://bit.ly/3fY7ezT
08.01.2022 Don't believe a word Jeffrey Crompton says in this video! We had such a bumper crop of broad beans at Blackheath Community Farm that Dennis has already picked hundreds (if not thousands) of broad beans this year ... and there's plenty more to be picked!
07.01.2022 Another glorious day at Blackheath Community Farm last Sunday! We spent a lot of time enjoying the beauty of all the colourful patterns emerging in the beds, and were blown away by the rapid growth of everything over the last week. We potted up self-seeded celery plants, planted out more silverbeet and onions, and harvested radishes, rocket, red elk mizuna, lettuces, purple sprouting broccoli and black kale. Our bush regen group really made a dint in the agapanthus which have... invaded the bushland around the farm and we spotted a fruiting sour currant bush (Leptomeria acida). The acid drops it produces were eaten by Indigenous Australians as well as being made into jelly be early settlers. Well be back at 10am today ... all welcome!
07.01.2022 Planting radishes is one of the biggest returns on investment you can make in this world! They miraculously take only four weeks to grow and you can then eat the radishes raw, baked or pickled and you can cook the leaves or make pesto with them. One single plant can produce zillions of seed pods and these soft young pods are also edible raw, cooked or pickled. After some were pulled out at Blackheath Community Farm today I made three jars of sweet and spicy pickled radish pods, then chopped more pods up with scallions and sprouting broccoli (also picked today) to make jalapeno pepper green fritters. They were accompanied by stir fried Farm snow peas for a lovely Sunday night supper.
06.01.2022 Our mammoth melting snow peas at Blackheath Community Farm have been really enjoying this rain and are covered with flowers, and our quince is rearing to burst back into life! If you havent pruned your fruit trees yet, nows probably quite a good time to do so.
05.01.2022 A huge thank you to Hayley for these aerial views of Blackheath Community Farm last weekend!
05.01.2022 Thanks to the bee resort planted next to my home green house (borage, lavender and rose campion), we've been attracting lots of bees and getting excellent pollination. First time ever I've been harvesting ripe tomatoes and strawberries over winter and outdoors in early November. Looking forward to sharing lots more information about food growing and permaculture at the Lithgow Area Women's Shed this Saturday. If you'd like to join the group contact Susan on 0439 089 035 or Leanne on 0438 766 891.
04.01.2022 Such extraordinary abundance and beauty at Blackheath Community Farm last Sunday! The poppies, strawberries and quinces are flowering, the cicadas have arrived and we have so many endive lettuces that everyone was able to take home a few each. They're delicious in a dressing of oil, lemon, honey and dijon mustard, to counter the slight bitterness; or cooked in oil and garlic as a side dish. We also harvested snow peas, our first broad beans, delicious chive and rocket flowers, a range of salad greens, beetroots and broccoli. And it's all so abundant because of the beautiful compost we make at the farm! We'll be back at 10am today ... all welcome.
04.01.2022 We've created a floral jungle in and around our food growing area at Blackheath Community Farm and last Sunday we weeded and mulched around it so that we could fully enjoy its beauty. Our love-in-a-mist has already formed its exquisite seed pods and we're looking forward to collecting their nigella seeds and experimenting with how to use them. As our broad bean and pea season comes to an end we're leaving enough of those to go to seed too so that we can replant next year and ...we were delighted at the speed of growth of our scarlet runner beans which have already started to flower. We also welcomed a visit from members of the inspiring Lithgow Women's Shed (Lis gave them an Introduction to Permaculture two weeks ago) and Lyndall showed them the compost lab and our incredible, multiplying worms. We then enjoyed another of Jeffrey's spectacular sour doughs with some cheese and pickled radish pods. Our harvest included strawberries, cos lettuce, black kale, broad beans, snow peas, beetroot and broccoli and we were thrilled to see all the quinces that are forming. We'll be back tomorrow at 10am ... all welcome.
03.01.2022 Today when I got home from the Farm, cold and soaking wet, all I could think of was hot chips. The song "Fish and chips and vinegar, vinegar, vinegar ..." was like an ear worm that wouldn't leave me! Fortunately there were so many silverbeet/pea and broad bean 'sausage rolls' left over for dinner that I only needed to make a fresh salad with the ingredients I'd bought home from the Farm, and then I had the time to make delicious salt and vinegar spuds. The flowering branches ...of radish going to seed looked beautiful in a vase and I used a handful of the pods in a salad with Farm lettuce, radish, chive flowers and snow pea tips. They add a delicious crunch! Here's the recipe for the potatoes. SALT AND VINEGAR ROAST POTATOES (by Colin Fassinidge in the NY Times) 8 to 10 desiree potatoes, peeled and quartered Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper Vegetable oil, for roasting 1 garlic bulb, unpeeled, cloves smashed using the side of a knife 1 bunch of thyme 1 bunch of rosemary 100g salted butter, roughly chopped For the vinegar 300ml white wine vinegar 1 bunch of rosemary, leaves picked and chopped 1 tbsp caster sugar To make the rosemary vinegar, combine the ingredients in a small bowl and set aside. Preheat the oven to 200C (fan-forced). Place the potato in a large saucepan, cover with cold water and season with salt. Slowly bring to the boil over medium heat, then reduce the heat to a simmer and cook for 20-30 minutes, until the potato is just starting to break up. Drain the potato in a colander and allow to steam dry for about 10 minutes. While the potato is cooling, pour enough vegetable oil into a roasting tin to cover the base and place it in the oven to heat up. Once the potato is dry, tip it into the roasting tin (be careful as the hot oil will splatter) and spread out in a single layer. Roast for 10 minutes, until the base of each potato is golden brown and crisp. Turn the potato over and add the smashed garlic cloves, herbs and butter. Roast for a further 15 minutes, turning the potato frequently to crisp each side, then remove the tin from the oven and strain away any fat. Season with salt and pepper. Spoon the rosemary vinegar into the bottom of a serving dish, then gently place the roast potatoes on top and serve.
03.01.2022 Some of our broad beans at Blackheath Community Farm snapped with the wind this week so we took the opportunity to make crisp broad bean leaf tip tempura with soy and lime dipping sauce ... the perfect snack for a snowy afternoon.
02.01.2022 A huge congratulations to Kathryn Hope, one of our Blackheath Community Farmers, for winning the first prize at the Blackheath Art Society Art Prize (AND for winning the People's Choice Award as well!)
02.01.2022 Snow pea season has well and truly begun at Blackheath Community Farm! Even hardenbergia, the native flowering pea plant, is in bloom. Our purple sprouting broccoli are now cropping continually, the broad beans are not far away and the first figs have started to form. We harvested parsnip seeds, shared excess stinging nettle and red elk mizuna plants, planted out our potatoes, more silverbeet and purple brussel sprouts, divided up and began planting our yacon, transplanted le...ttuce, and increased our watertank irrigation now that the weather is warming up. And on top of that we had a ball! We'll be back tomorrow and our bush regen group will also be running from 10am. It's such a delight to learn about our native species, find patches of healthy plants, and then work to remove weed encroaching on them so that they can really flourish. All welcome to take part in either group, or a bit of both.
02.01.2022 Tomorrow at 9am (Sun 9 Aug) well be starting our World Heritage Regeneration program. Were thrilled that one of the leading Bush Carers and trainers in the Mountains, Lyndall Sullivan, will be showing us how to regenerate the bushland around Blackheath Community Farm to create food and habitat for wildlife ... in permaculture this would be Zone V. This is the beginning of an ongoing program to provide local residents with hands-on experience in bush regeneration. Whether youre looking for a new career or are keen to learn what you can do as an individual to regenerate our bushland, or even if youre looking to be part of a like-minded group who cares passionately about nature, contact Lis on 0407 437 553 if youd like to join us (Numbers are very limited for this first session so you will need to book in, but there will be many more).
02.01.2022 We have some amazing microclimates at Blackheath Community Farm so were still harvesting raspberries in July! This week we also harvested radishes, red kale, rocket, lettuces and mizuna. July is a great time to sow radish, spinach and onion seeds and you can start cauliflower seeds under cover. We also sowed a green manure crop of mustard into our old potato patch (it adds organic matter to the soil and acts as a biofumigant).
01.01.2022 Our dedicated team of Blackheath Community Farmers turned up last Sunday, despite the rain, and were rewarded with a massive harvest: beetroots, snow peas, broad beans, silverbeet and ruby chard, garlic scapes, broccoli, garlic chives, chive flowers, radish pods, kale and stinging nettle plants to share with friends. Our nigella (love-in-the-mist) and evening primrose have begun to flower and it all just gets more and more beautiful by the day. We're also excited that our co...mmitment to regenerating the bushland around the Farm has resulted in Blue Mountains City Council supporting us to create a Landcare group with a Bushcare officer from Council training us in best practice bush regeneration skills. If you've always wanted to learn more about how to protect biodiversity and get involved in a holistic plan to do that in West Blackheath, join us at 1.30 today at the Farm. The new Landcare group will be meeting on the first Saturday of every month at the Farm. Ring Lis on 0407 437 553 to find out more (or if you can't find us when you arrive!) Tomorrow (Sunday) a new Bonsai group will also be starting at the Farm and will meet on the second Sunday of the month.
