A botanical survey of the banks of Enoggera Creek at The Gap, in Brisbane’s north-west, has found the area meets the criteria for critically endangered Lowland Rainforest of Subtropical Australia. The survey involved botanist Rob Price and volunteers identifying plant...
Want to feel hopeful and inspired about doing your bit to adapt to climate change? Actor, director and farmer, Rachel Ward, shows the way in her cracking yarn, Rachel’s Farm: one woman’s journey from ecological despair to finding hope in the soil beneath her feet. The...
When I first moved to the Northern Rivers of NSW, the back garden of my country-town rental abode offered a fruit-salad of mulberries, passionfruit, paw-paw, custard apples… and pineapples! I took great delight in showing friends, old and new, the pineapples. “Do you...
Welcome to Green Shoots, the gardening section. This section focuses on plants grown using permaculture principles. We feature native, home-grown, foraged, healthy and sustainable plants that are edible and ornamental. In our first edition we bring you a healthy and...
Chanterelle Foggin is a forager, wild food educator, mushroom hunter, edible weeds advocate, cooking and food writer writer based in New South Wales. While The Pineapple usually features Queensland writers, this recipe features Bunya Nuts and Davidson Plums, both of...