Three bush foods

Yesterday we walked along the beach and found this barnacle 'vase', standing about 2.5cm at its tallest side. This morning I tested it for water tightness and it leaked like a sieve, so I had to work quickly with my vegetable arrangement.

This morning we drove to Boyd Tower, just a folly now but Ben Boyd, who built it, wanted it to be a light house. Because he'd fallen on hard times, the authorities didn't approve it so it stands with no great purpose but something to look at (see extra). It's nonetheless on a spectacular headland which, although like the rest of the area was badly fire damaged 18 months ago, has plenty of vegetation growing back.

My arrangement shows three native plants from the headland:

Lilly pilly fruit, which is rich in vitamin C, promotes production of collagen and elastin (must eat some), and can be used to make jam. It was consumed by Australia's indigenous people. It is also a nice purple colour which goes well with the barnacle;

Warrigal greens, showing its tiny yellow flower, was harvested by Captain Cook to prevent scurvy among the crew of the Endeavour. It is rich in just about every vitamin and mineral you can think of, but particularly vitamins K, C and B6;

Bracken fern fiddle heads, although the whole fern is poisonous. Indigenous people soaked and dried the fiddle heads before eating.

We're a bit remote here and the internet and Wi-Fi drop in and out so I may get a bit behind in responding to your entries, but will do my best to catch up when I can.

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