Fair Food Week is all about food produced fairly, locally and with as little waste as possible. The GULP project invited community members to join us for a fair food share in conjunction with the Mulchpit to highlight the great food system of local food we grow ourselves. A group of 1local produce cooks met and shared … Continue reading Fair Food Week Food Share
It's happened again, the cane toad eating has hit the headlines! Professor Phillip Hayward, from Southern Cross University has been promoting the eating of cane toads (and our site) This seems appropriate as the rain starts to come again and the invasive amphibians begin to come forth and multiply, messing with the ecological integrity of … Continue reading Community Cook – Rod’s Cane Toad Canapes
Earlier this year we held a fabulous roots workshop at The Mulch Pit (in Nightcliff, Darwin). We had over 30 people attending, some cassava harvesting and wonderful presenters sharing their food stories and recipes of the easily grown roots- Cassava and Taro, they included- Matumba and his Cassava pone and Taro chips Grusha and Cassava … Continue reading Community Cook – Bhavini’s Cassava Curry
Delicious Sapodillas are ready and available at the Rapid Creek, and probably other local food markets. Sapodilla, or Manilkara zapota, is a small brown rough skinned fruit resembling a (soft) small potato. It has a rich sugary malt like flavour and is from the Americas. It is grown in the Darwin region. I have now put up … Continue reading Community Cook – Erin’s Sapodilla dessert
So our GULP project is all about tapping into the amazing community we have here in Darwin that use produce that grows here and sharing the knowledge. A couple of weeks ago we held a GULP workshop at Alawa Primary School, facilitated by Erin Vaid. Erin runs the kitchen part of the kitchen garden program … Continue reading GULP Workshop at Alawa Primary
So, to share a little taste of local produce, wonderful community cooks are creating and donating dishes for tasting platters. These can be purchased at the community cafe at the Tropical Garden Spectacular this weekend. All for a suggested donation, served on a banana leaf on a board. All recipes accompany the dishes. (Also available … Continue reading Tropical Garden Spectacular Tasting Platters
In the past the GULP team have discussed the various contents of the cook book that will emerge from this wonderful community based local food project. We would like to set the book out to be produce focused and look at the ingredients that we grow, then from this the recipes are written, and include … Continue reading Toad legs – New Feral Fine Food?
We also had a wonderful food share and work shop at the Mulch Pit back in November for Eat Local, Feed Global Oxfam campaign that highlights the craziness of our food systems and how eating local can help others further away!. The night was a beautiful twighlight evening and raised money for a great cause and … Continue reading Eat Local, Feed Global
The GULP project has been happening, with some great local food shares and workshops, to come up with some lovely local recipes using seasonal produce, from the community, for the community! We have so far been working in collaboration with various organisations including My Sister's Kitchen (Darwin Community Arts). My Sister's Kitchen encourages women from … Continue reading My Sister’s Kitchen Workshops
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