The purpose of this blog is to share my food philosophy and to hopefully help people to understand better ways of farming, gardening, cooking and eating. I am confident that the leading cause of disease today is our food. We need to eat healthy nutritous food to lead healthy lives. One way to ensure that we are eating healthy food is to eat food that is produced without or with minimal chemicals. You either need to buy it or produce it yourself. I do produce a lot of our own food but I know that not everyone can. What I would like you to do though is to think about where the food you buy has come from. How was it produced? How far did it have to travel to your local shop? These are the two main questions you need to consider, however when you consider how it was produced, you need to think about so many things: organic, biodynamic, pasture fed, chemical free, hormone free, free range, and the list goes on. Hopefully through this blog you will get a better understanding of these two questions and can then make your own decisions. The food we grow on our farm at the moment includes: beef, chicken, duck, pork, vegetables, milk and eggs. We aren't self sufficient, and it would be difficult to be so as I enjoy cooking too much and need ingredients that I can't grow. I am passionate about food - from growing it, to cooking it, to eating it. I will share my adventures in these endeavours - from sharing recipes to just sharing my experiences.
Not much has changed, although the next couple of posts talked about the fact that we were flood bound, so that has certainly changed. We are currently facing the worst dry period that we've ever had in the almost 30 years that we've owned this property.
This is one of my favourite photos and was taken during that flood.
This makes me happy and sad! I haven't got anything like that in the garden at the moment!
Anyway, I'm still committed to blogging and also updating my Lucy's Kitchen Facebook page. I am still passionate about food and farming and still want to share what we do in the hope that it may inspire someone somewhere to make changes in their own lives and look for food that is grown nutritiously and by farmers who farm regeneratively. That may mean growing your own or buying it in, but either way you will benefit. I haven't grown to much lately in my garden, we've been away to much to keep anything alive in this heat. The first thing I'll do when we move south is get a veggie garden planted.
Yes, we're moving, and hopefully by the end of January/early February.
At this stage we aren't actually sure where we're moving to, but it will be on a small acreage outside Canberra. Kim and I will continue to own Anabank, however we will be leasing it out for the next little while as we see how things go with our change. So I'll keep you all posted where we end up.
I wish you all a Happy New Year and may it be a wetter year than last year.
