Edible Flowers with Linda Brennan

From ‘Flower Pot’ to ‘Plate’, join ABC Radio Canberra Breakfast host Lish Fejer as she speaks with organic horticulturist, eco educator and author of A Delicious Bunch, Linda Brennan, as they discuss how to sprinkle a bit of Spring into your cooking with Edible Flowers in the second episode of the Floriade: Reimagined Podcast series.

For the foodies looking to turn their hand at gardening, this podcast will inspire you with blooming edible ideas on planning and growing your own edible flower garden. For green-thumbs with a meal in mind, you’ll want to go out and grow a blossoming bed, just for eating.
Guest - Linda Brennan
Linda Brennan is horticulturist specialising in organic gardens, environmental educator and passionate greenthumb goddess. She’s a prominent horticultural figure, devoted to health and vitality through nurturing life, people and the environment. She is an inspiration for adults and children who want to grow bountiful gardens, edible flowers and organic food in abundance.

Her childhood was spent wandering the bush with her parents, picking wild foods, harvesting honey and growing a huge variety of vegies and fruit in the family garden in Gippsland, Victoria. Her first garden by the age of 5 was full of her favourite foods, broad beans, peas, radish, asparagus, sweet corn and dianthus flowers. Her outdoor childhood helped to sow the seeds of a love of nature and the potential for productive gardens.

As an adult, she naturally progressed from a career in midwifery into the equally nurturing field of horticulture, especially organic food, permaculture and education. In between times she also ran her own catering business, making gourmet meals for health-seeking executives and staff. She went on to teach at TAFE in Horticulture, and at several Queensland Universities in both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees around environment and sustainability.

In her spare time, Linda sinks her hands into the soil in her own beautiful organic acreage garden where hundreds of edible, medicinal and useful plants thrive. Edible flowers feature under the orchard trees, through the vegetable patch and are dotted through the beautiful herb and cottage gardens and surround the labyrinth. Her many hives of stingless native bees and European honey bees, pollinate fruit trees and vegies, giving abundant crops.
Most of the family meals originate in the garden and are picked fresh from just metres away. Friends, family and neighbours benefit from the greenthumb in their midst.
Host - Lish Fejer
Lish Fejer presents ABC Radio Canberra’s Breakfast program.

She loves an early start. Growing up in the bush she studied science at ANU.

She’s worked in the field of science communication as a presenter, speaker, writer and exhibition developer including co-hosting ABC TV’s eco-home-reno show Carbon Cops.

Lish rides a bike, does science experiments at parties (she met her husband when she fired a scone out of a potato cannon), spends her down time in the garden and kitchen and loves Canberra.