Ep 023 - Garden Recipes, Growing for your Family & Gardening Dreams with Paul West

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11/09/23 • 55 min

In this episode, Averill and Bernadette chat with Paul West. Paul West is a chef, passionate gardener, sustainability advocate and popular media personality. Paul reminisces with Averill and Bernadette about some River Cottage Australia memories, they share recipes and gardening dreams, and talk about his latest project; Grow It Local. We also take listeners through Paul's book; Homegrown - a year of cooking and eating.
Links for further information:
Home - Grow it Local
Homegrown, A year of growing, cooking and eating by Paul West
River Cottage Australia - Wikipedia
WWOOF Australia | WWOOF – World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms
Home - National Arboretum
Home - Live Better, Longer - Blue Zones
Churchill Trust

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Dirt and Daisy Facebook
Grape Hyacinth Simple Syrup Recipe - Modern Homestead Mama
Eco-Friendly Laundry Detergent Sheets Australia | Lucent Globe
Homesteading - Wikipedia
Kalamunda Garden Festival

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Home Soil - Rachael & Damian (@home.soil) • Instagram
Charles Dowding: Home
Dr. Elaine’sTM Soil Food Web School - Regenerating Soil - Regenerative Agriculture Courses
The Next Green Revolution - National Geographic
Call of the Reed Warbler, Revised Edition by Charles Massy
The Third Plate, Field Notes on the Future of Food by Dan Barber

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Seedy Chats Garden & Lifestyle Podcast - Ep 023 - Garden Recipes, Growing for your Family & Gardening Dreams with Paul West

Transcript

Before we start today, Seedy Chats would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri country, recognising their continued connection to this land. Traditional custodians of all our lands from the water running through our creeks, the air we breathe in our mountains and the stars that shine brightly in the sky. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. Oh hello and welcome. Welcome. to Seedy Chats. Hello and welcome back. Welcome to Seedy Chats, t