Nick & Jackie

Well fed birds and a chat around the fire – Receiving seeds 2019 & planning 2020

Sometime after moving to Pomonal post bakery-tour-holiday and starting up a micro-bakery, I thought “I’d like to try growing some wheat and rye”.   An email to the Horsham Genebank, a bit of back and forth to clarify grain types, local region & climate, a signature and soon 49 tiny seed packets arrived in the mail!  …

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Learning about the past to understand the future – Australian Grains Genebank 2018

In December 2018 we started off on our three month holiday-bakery-tour-extravaganza-thingy, the first stop, of course, was the iconic Red Beard bakery in Trentham where we were put up for the night by John and got to hang out for a bake. From there we headed west for a quick visit to my parents’ house …

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