Category Archives: Day Out

Day Out | Sugar in the Raw

By Nicola | Published: September 27, 2009
Last month, BLDGBLOG and I joined a small group (consisting mostly of wheat farmers on a busman's holiday) to visit Mossman mill, which is just up the road from Cairns. As it happens, we are apparently on the brink of a sugar crisis, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that Americans might face an autumn without sugar
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Day Out | The Mushroom Tunnel

By Nicola | Published: September 9, 2009
As Geoff has already mentioned on BLDGBLOG, we spent our last full day in Australia touring the Li-Sun Exotic Mushroom Farm with its founder and owner, Dr. Noel Arrold. Three weeks earlier at a Sydney farmers' market, we were buying handfuls of his delicious shimeji and chestnut mushrooms to make a risotto, when the vendor told us that they had been grown in a disused railway tunnel in Mittagong.
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