Roots

Our soil is our culture and future. It defines who we are. The terroir of the land, showering us with distinctive local characteristics, shapes the plants, products, and cultural life of a region.

Each plant, each garden and its web of life carries its own personality and shares it bounty unreservedly. This collection ranges far and wide. Sometimes tracing a plant's ancestry and trading routes as it morphs into an important food source. Other times, it highlights the tides of change that elevate the old to the new or uncovers a plants culinary myths, mysteries, and other miscellany.

At its root, the purpose is to ignite an appreciation of the natural world.

Rubescent Seeds of Fertility, Entrapment & Death

How many times do I walk past you every day? A worn track, a desire line that marks my travels, opens the tale to answer the question...

The Sumptuous Fig

In winters cold, as wind shuffles through my bare branches that look like the gangly limbs of youth searching for their boundaries, my story begins...

A Miscellany of Strawberries

For centuries, the strawberry has been interwoven with our lives. In our cuisine, folklore, art, and herbal medicine...

Keeping up with the Beet

Following our English culinary ancestry, beetroot remained relatively neglected until it took a turn in the 1960’s. Tinned food and electric can ...

Rhubarb Renaissance: A Curious plant

Originally, rhubarb (Rheum palmatumn) was valued for its medicinal prowess. Native to the wintry steppes of Central Asia, Himalayas ...

A Hand Spinners Delight

It was a hot spring day in 2012 when the four of us set off in the big silver Ute-the F250-to buy two coloured cross breed wethers from ...