Winter fruits Apples Avocados Cumquats Grapefruit Lemons Limes Mandarins Navel oranges Pears Persimmon Quinces Rhubarb Tangelos Tangerines Winter vegetables Bok choy Beetroot Broccoli Brussels sprouts Cabbage Carrots Cauliflower Celeriac Celery Chicory Choy sum Daikon radish Fennel Garlic Horseradish Jerusalem artichoke Kale Kohlrabi Okra Olives Onions Parsnip Peas Potato Pumpkin Shallots Silverbeet Spinach Swede Sweet potato Turnip
Mercy Place Rice Village planted their very own vegetable garden in 2016 to grow fresh produce to use in their daily meals. Five years on it is still thriving and yields and abundance of salad greens, silverbeet, lemongrass and fresh herbs. The garden is maintained by two residents with keen green thumbs and Mercy Place […]
Last month in Sydney we filmed the last three episodes for our training modules that we are developing with Altura. This is creating much excitement as there will be 11 modules in total, they will be available sometime after October this year and distributed by Altura to, we hope, several thousand cooks and chefs in […]
As I write this, Victoria is again locked down. Such difficulties that we hardly can imagine for those caring for Older Australians within Aged Care Homes. I can only hope that the COVID vaccinations complete their roll out with the greatest of urgency. There are so many things happening in the world of Aged Care; […]
Maggie recently shared her passion for good food and aim to improve the standard of food served in aged care homes, at the ‘Food, Flavours and Friendships – nourishment for a good life’ event at Salisbury’s Jack Young Centre in May. The food icon was the special guest at the Council of the Ageing (COTA) […]
