Girragirra Green Living

Green Living

How to grow asparagus in your garden.

How to grow asparagus in your home garden? Here are our top 5 tips on growing this tasty veggie 1. Why? Asparagus is super easy to grow, high in potassium, great for fibre, low in salt, and totally delicious! They’re also well known “prebiotics” – food for your gut bugs.[…]

Girragirra tomato passata recipe

  Here’s our Girragirra tomato passata recipe, because Summer in Oz means tomatoes are go! It’s our low tech way of storing that sunshine in a bottle for those chilly Winter days ahead. Girragirra Tomato Passata Recipe: Grow your own, they WILL be tastier than anything you can buy. If[…]

Are we nuts? Why we make activated almonds.

  Activated almonds have become a bit of a “thing” over the last little while. My 88 year old Mum’s having none of it! She tells me it’s a load of hippie rubbish. But I figure if the Ancient civilisations built a tradition around the soaking and drying of nuts[…]

Yoghurt – in 5 easy steps

It’s 44C in the shade today – the perfect temperature to set yoghurt.  But not so great for being outside. So let’s stay inside, make our yoghurt, then set it outside. Win! I was lucky enough to learn this technique from the very clever David Asher. David’s one of the[…]

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