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Finger Limes and Mountain Pepper growing well at Peppermint Ridge

By Julie Weatherhead | December 10, 2014

This new summer rain has given a great growth boost to our bush food plants. We will have a great crop of finger limes and mountain pepper and the  new anise myrtle plants are growing fast in their pots. I have been experimenting with grinding up the fresh leaves of our native herbs with salt and…

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Experimenting with Bush Food at Peppermint Ridge Farm’s Native Creative Cooking School

By Julie Weatherhead | November 12, 2014

We are always thinking up new ideas here at Peppermint Ridge for using bush foods to encourage others to put these wonderful plants in their gardens. We know that as soon as we increased the diversity of plants in our gardens the diversity of native animals and insects increased too. We now have an exciting…

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Welcome to the new Bushfood Blog!

By Julie Weatherhead | June 7, 2014

Hello from Peppermint Ridge Farm!  We’re delighted to begin our first ever blog about bush foods.  We’re passionate foodies and have grown and cooked with bush foods for more than 15 years.

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  • The Low Salt Movement – Part II
  • The Low Salt Movement – Part I
  • Fresh Honey from Lemon Myrtle Blossoms
  • Native Tamarind (Diploglottis campellii) Fruits at Peppermint Ridge
  • Making Flour from Lomandra longifolia (Spiny Headed Mat Rush)

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Peppermint Ridge Farm acknowledges the Bunurong people as the first inhabitants and Traditional Custodians of this land where we live, learn and work.

We also acknowledge the Wurundjeri and Gunai Kurnai peoples as the first inhabitants and Traditional Custodians of the lands that border Bunurong country where we also work.

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