Parsley Soup

We have had an abundance of parsley here at Peace Farm and so I've figured this is the medicine of the moment! I was been searching for recipes that use a large amount of parsley and this is the winner...

Parsley Soup:

1 tbsn butter

1 tbsn olive oil

1 onion chopped

2 cloves garlic finely chopped

2 potatoes peeled & chopped

1 large bunch of parsley

1 litre of chicken stock

salt & pepper to taste

Optional: zest & juice of 1 lemon, sprig of thyme & small sprig of rosemary and garnish with parmesan cheese & grated nutmeg

Heat up the oil & butter in large pot then saute the onion & garlic. Add potatoes and the stock and cook for 10 minutes and then add parsley when the potatoes are cooked. Cook for a further 5 minutes and then blend soup in a food processor or with a hand blender.

When the parsley is only cooked for 5 minutes, this creates the most vibrant emerald soup and tastes amazing.

Enjoy!

Autumn Pumpkin, Adzudi, Shitaki Miso Stew

This is a wonderful warming Autumn stew that makes the most of the lovely root vegetables we are harvesting.

Serves 4

¼ large jap pumpkin coarsely chopped

1 large potato coarsely chopped

1 large onion chopped

2 cloves garlic finely chopped

1 knob of fresh garlic grated

4 inch strip of kombu seaweed

2 medium carrots chopped

1 cup dried shitaki mushrooms (pre-soaked and retain liquid for stock)

1/2 cup adzuki beans (soaked overnight)

1 tspn cumin seed

1 stick cinnamon

Salt & pepper to taste

Miso to taste

Optional: nori (seaweed), gomasio (roasted sesame seeds & salt), flat leaf parsley to garnish

& add 1 tin coconut milk for a richer stew 5 minutes before serving

Saute onion and garlic and spices, then add ginger and all vegetables and beans. Cover generously with water and cook for 45 minutes stirring occasionally. When serving up, rub miso around each bowl, serve stew and top with garnish 

Enjoy!

Farm Play - 2014

At the beginning of this year the mama’s of Peace Farm started ‘Farm Play’! 

 

The day is simple and organic. It  includes; nature arts and crafts, singing, dancing and story telling focusing on a feature animal and plant each week.

The children are nourished by our home grown produce at morning tea, before venturing outside for some ‘farm play’. We take our baskets in search of seasonal goodies such as cherry tomatoes, feathers and flowers. After a visit to the chooks, sheep, cows and goats we hike down to the forest, where we make some nature mandalas from the things we have gathered and then wrap up with some more song, dance and forest play!

We will soon be running some Farm Play sessions at our monthly ‘Hands-on-the-Land’ work days. This will help to create a really family friendly and educational day for all!

Ectopia Festival - Sunday 13th April 2014

Peace Farm had a stall at the local Ectopia Festival in Yarra Junction. 

The theme: the honey bee! We proudly displayed our summer harvest and promoted our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Vege Box & membership and we also displayed our Farm Play activities that we make at our weekly play group including: corn dollies, magic feather wands and our beautiful harvest mandala. 

The mandala was constructed by some adults, but mainly by the kids! And featured beans and seeds that were then packaged up and given away in little bags of green manure crop seeds after the mandala was dismantled. In the essence of permiculture, recycling and alchemy!