Sweet Potato Leaves Salad Recipe - Serves 2 Ingredients 1 large bunch sweet potato leaves stems removed and cleaned 3 pieces medium tomatoes sliced 1 thumb ginger shredded 1 medium red onion sliced 6 tablespoons sugar cane vinegar (or other vinegar) [...]
Eating ‘root to leaf’ In summer, we grow sweet potatoes throughout our food forest. Anyone who has seen the sweet potato plant grow will know that the tubers grow under [...]
Hi, Happy lunar new year! And happy new year in general. At Green Connect we have celebrated an award and a donation or two, thrown together a video tour of [...]
Carrot bread Ingredients 2 cups flour 1 cup sugar 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda 1 ½ teaspoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon nutmeg 2 ½ cups carrots grated 3 eggs ¾ cup vegetable oil ¼ cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla ¾ cup walnuts chopped Method Preheat oven to 350˚F. Line a 9x5 loaf pan with parchment [...]
Rain, Hail or Shine When we have weeks of rain, like the one we’ve just had, people often ask me: what do you do when it rains? The answer is… [...]
Spanakopita - Serves 4 Ingredients 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 medium brown onions, chopped 2 clove garlic, chopped 1 bunch (1 kilogram) silver beet, trimmed, leaves shredded 200 gram feta [...]
Why Green Connect Fair Food We have been doing a lot of talking lately about how to increase our veg box numbers so that we can fully sustain what we [...]
Roast Carrot and Fennel Ingredients 1 bunch carrot, peeled, cut into lengths 3 baby fennel bulbs 1 large red onion, cut into 1/2-inch wedges 1 medium lemon, thinly sliced 1/4 [...]
A Taste of Florence When we started growing Fennel and including it in our boxes, our customers where a bit unsure of this weird looking, liquorish smelling fluorescent white bulb. [...]
