The new winter issue of Country Life
Yarra Valley and Ranges has come out today and with it an article I have
written about an organic garden in Selby – very near where I live – belonging
to an amazing herbalist called Suzie; and beautiful stonework has been created by
her daughter Holly Carter-Madej (of Holly C Stonework).
Suzie Carter-Madej is an inspiring
woman, passionate about healthy food, who gathers food from her own organic
patch. We both collect seeds from our own vegetable plants for planting later, but
otherwise I found I had a lot to learn from this wise woman.
My favourite lesson, I think, was
discovering the delicious tea that could be made from boiling water poured over
2 sprigs of lemon verbena (Aloysia
triphylla) in the teapot. No tea bags, no packaging, no carbon miles. A
delicious simplicity (representing so much more, of course) that I can only
barely try to replicate in my life.
Jill Weatherhead is horticulturist, garden designer
and principal at Jill Weatherhead Garden Design who lives in the Dandenong
Ranges east of Melbourne (Now
www.jillweatherheadgardendesign.com.au, no longer www.jillweatherhead.com.au)
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