Dear reader,

We're well into winter, but many weeds flourish now, so its a good time to run a workshop.  I'm offering one in Welcome Bay, Tauranga this Sunday 24th July from 10-1pm at 51 Utopia Park Heights, Welcome Bay.  This is the home of Meghan and her husband and two young children.  It is a new house and section waiting to be transformed into a food haven of fruit trees and vegetables but at the moment it has lots of nice weeds we can discover and turn into a yummee smoothie.  I'll bring along a warming plantain soup and have some other things to try.
Please let your friends and family know in case they'd like to join us in discovering the value of wild edibles growing all around us.

Above is a winter salad made of a handful of chickweed, nasturtium leaves, bitter cress, finely grated green and red cabbage, celery with little pieces of red capsicum, forget-me-not flowers and a heartsease pansy. You can also add cut up pieces of apple.  The dressing was oil, lemon juice and salt.  It tasted very good.

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Above and below is my amazing new quilt which Heather Bonk kindly made for me from curtain samples, with some assistance from me.  It has a plant theme and she even embroidered my name on it.  I'm thrilled to say the least!

We even added "Wild About Weeds"

Last year I added photos of the baby chickens I was raising and here they are now all grown up into the 3 beautiful Rhode Island Red chooks. The best part is they've started laying!  The little black one is called Tahi and she is the only one that hatched under the bantam.