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High Merit Award
The Food Forest has won a High Merit Award, the highest award given at the recent judging of organic wines in association with the World Organic Wine and Viticulture Conference in Adelaide.
The wine is the 2004 Jelly Palm Liqueur... described by the judges as 'Out of the box! Luscious, sweet and with lots of complexity, with balanced sugar and alcohol'.
This is just one of the wines produced in the strawbale cellars of the farm; port, cider and perry are also produced.
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Storing nuts in their shells is nature's way of giving you a fresh, crunchy treat. The shell contains anti-oxidants that prevent the rancidity that drives you crazy when you buy the inevitably stale packets of kernels from supermarkets. But where do you get efficient high speed nutcrackers for difficult nuts like macadamias, pecans and walnuts?
That was Graham Brookman's problem: he had beautiful, fresh, organically grown nuts to sell but people shied away from buying them in-shell because cr...
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Messages of congratulation from around the world have flooded into South Australia for Manfred, a goose that had lived for much of its life as a male but is now the proud mother of ten goslings.
Manfred was reared as an orphan by two humans and a small dog and received a male name as white geese in the Gawler region are males. But tragedy struck the family when the small dog died. Manfred was somehow implicated in the death and the grieving parents wanted another dog, so Manfred was sent...
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This section presents papers and links to permaculture sites with significant academic content. We thank the school students, uni students, graduates, teachers and lecturers who have generated this unique material. Contributions are welcome whether in Word, PDF or web format. Please send by email. All submissions will be considered but selection will be based totally on the decision of the Food Forest webmaster.
You will need Acrobat Reader on your computer to view some papers.
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The Food Forest's new beekeeper Mark Johns has brought a novel range of tricks to the enterprise including tasteful second-hand carpet squares to prevent weed growth around the hives and ant proof frames to prevent ant attack of the hives. He also has a permacultural way of enabling bees to get a drink without drowning...
Wine corks are captured in light galvanised mesh which floats as a water-conducting raft in stock troughs. We expect this year's Gawler Rver red-gum honey to be the best ever!...
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With the help of the Adelaide and Mt Lofty Ranges NRM Board and the Gawler Regional Natural Resource Centre the Food Forest has produced a 40 minute film showing effective ways of restoring the seasonal rivers that flow into St Vincent’s Gulf.
The film will be launched on Wednesday 13 March at 6pm by local MP Tony Piccolo and Minister for Communities and Social Inclusion. The public is welcome to attend this free premiere screening in the Hewett Centre, 28 Kingfisher Drive, Hewett (Gawler...
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Is there enough food to feed the world’s growing population? What impact might climate change, water shortages, poor soils and crop disease have on Australian agriculture in the future? Does science have the answers to these questions or do we need to change our attitudes and behaviours toward food?
Panel: Graham Brookman - The Food Forest, Prof Randy Stringer – University of Adelaide and Prof Dana Cordell – University of Technology Sydney
Date: Sunday 9 March 4.00pm - 5.00pm at ‘The P...
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