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14 February 202025 April 2025 Janette Bennett

Vegetarians love food, but not fake meat

Food
Vegetarians love food, but not fake meat

More than 35 years ago, I stopped eating flesh because I did not want creatures to be killed to feed me. Since then, I’ve had

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24 January 202020 January 2023 Janette Bennett

Strange tastes indeed

Eastern Cape, Food, Garden, Vegetable gardens
Strange tastes indeed

Why do we consider eating snails from our garden and get excited about finding wild mushrooms? Are we remembering a time when we survived by

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10 July 201210 March 2020 Under the milkwood

Fresh and simple life

Food, Garden
Fresh and simple life

As much as I enjoy going on an amble, one of the most pleasant things about it is coming home. So we’ve had a lovely

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25 May 20126 December 2019 Under the milkwood

Lemon tree very pretty

Food, Garden, Vegetable gardens
Lemon tree very pretty

My lemon tree, slap bang in the middle of the vegetable garden, is a beautiful sight right now. It’s heavy with fruit and full of

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21 May 201220 January 2023 Under the milkwood

When the wind blows

Ambles, Eastern Cape, Food
When the wind blows

When life deals you lemons, the saying goes, make lemonade. In the Eastern Cape, we have our own version: when it’s windy, fly a kite.

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10 April 201224 November 2019 Under the milkwood

Hot and hotter

Food, Garden, Vegetable gardens
Hot and hotter

On weekends, V likes to get busy in the kitchen. It’s his “down-time”, he says. He picks whatever chillis he can find in the garden

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