Roast Dutch Carrots, Carrot Top Salsa Verde & Honey Macadamias
Serves: 3-4 (Side Dish) - Cook Time: 35min
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Loaded with vitamins A, B6, and C, folate, magnesium, fiber, riboflavin, phosphorus, and potassium. Along with being rich in manganese. It's a serious nutritional power-packed veggie. Here's delicious ways to cook button squash...
From Bananas to Berries - How farmers survive in the industrial farming system we rely on today
Driving back from our camping trip this weekend, I watched people with backpacks spraying the blueberries under the plastic tunnels as we approached Coffs Harbour. I pulled over on the side of the road to check out how these berries were now being grown on the same hills that used to be covered in banana trees as far as the eye could see. Each blueberry bush was growing in a pot, much like those woven plastic tree bags you can buy from Bunnings. Along each row of blueberries, there were plastic pipes, which must be used not only to irrigate each plant but also to feed it the chemical nutrients it needs to survive. Between the rows, it was clear that some form of herbicide was used to keep the weeds from growing over the top of the bushes.
Update On The Farm Front
I would like to start this week's newsletter by thanking everyone who has given me the grace to explore my writing and share with you much more of my inner world. I feel extremely lucky to be a part of a community that has supported our family through the ups and downs of farming, but also in other aspects such as my amateur writing. I think it is now time to move my inner journey to a separate platform, so those of you who enjoy my searching can still access my writing and those who prefer to be kept up to date on all things farming, food and health can get their fix from the weekly newsletter we send out with your fruit and veggies. I have now started a Substack Publication https://substack.
Now, I think it's about time I give you an update on the farming front. The farm has finally been listed for sale after a long wet period slowed our progress in getting it ready. Years of pure focus on vegetable growing, turned the rest of the farm into a jungle with all the rainfall we've experienced over these years.
PART 2: Why Do Great Things Get Accomplished—And What Drives The People Who Accomplish Them?
There are days when I love knowing that I am the author of my own life—when I can conjure any meaning I choose. In those moments, I feel like a miniature god, free to create, to explore, to play not only in the physical world but in the boundless landscapes of my imagination. But then there are the other days—the ones when imagination turns against me, when it becomes overwhelmed by fear. And knowing that the fear is irrational doesn’t help in the slightest. It sinks, it spreads, and if left unchecked, it drags me toward despair. The only thing that saves me in those moments is when I turn my gaze toward what I can only call the Lighthouse of Love. I see my wife, Emily, and our three children. The closer I drift toward the darkness—when those treacherous thoughts begin to pull me under—they become the light that cuts through the storm.
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