I blame those cooking competitions like Masterchef and the Superfood nuts, for making formerly humble and cheap vegetables like parsnips cost $ 9.99. The standard price for a lowly cabbage is $5 and even at the height of the season, zucchini sold for $ 7.99. I am not sure what do about the rising price of other staples of the impoverished such as lamb shanks and soup bones (osso bucco) - plant a cow? - but I have begun to garden. I am now the proud owner of a small plot in a community garden and it is starting to show promise. The broad beans are up, the kale has yielded a few leaves and the broccoli are heading nicely. I have so many seedlings of Broccoli and Silverbeet that I have been giving them away. Even the weeds are good eating and probably add a few much needed vitamins to the winter food supply. And yes, I have planted parsnips. Community garden - one of several springing up around Hobart My plot in April - it looks better now. (See below) I a...
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