Amateur gardener with a quest to take on the world of edible plants, microbes, biodiversity, food preservation, and inevitable disappointments.
Twice-over Aussie ex-pat, (Spain and UK) - from professional cook to tour guide, I now write about my passion for Spanish food, culture, and history as well as gardening, fermentation, and the state of food education around the world.
Welcome to my Substack, a place where I explore how to grow the best ingredients whilst working alongside nature. This is my ideas playground, so have fun!
Food and Fiesta journeys through Spainโs unique festivals and celebrated culinary traditions, revealing the history and landscapes that inspire them.
A blog about the future of the planet. Ecology, Environment, Development and Economy are put together and looked at critically.
Challenges everything you think you know about wild food. No nature-as-resource nonsense. No extractive Instagram foraging fantasies. Just honest, direct, counterintuitive writing rooted in kinship with plants and deep ecological relationships.
From gardening to food justice, allotments, social and climate activism and human rights-the answer is always in a garden