Meet Julie Broad, our new cafe manager. Julie grew up on a biodynamic farm and ran the successful Food Store – Deli Cafe. The cafe has changed a lot in the last few weeks so if you haven’t visited for a while, check it out. Seasonal produce, organic foods, friendly service, all surrounded by edible [...]
Join Bradley Backhouse for a free cooking demonstration at 9am this coming Saturday June 25th at Perth City farm Organic Markets. This weeks dishes will be: Beetroot Cured Salmon and Potato Cake, and Poached Egg Bruschetta The demonstration is to promote Bradley’s new cooking classes to be held in conjunction with Perth City Farm commencing Thursday [...]
Participants have started planting of the amphitheatre beds in front of the City Farm Cafe’ with edible Queensland Arrowroot. This variety is the edible Queensland Arrowroot (Achira, Canna). We have grown it ourselves and is certified organic. The arrowroot can grow 2-3 m tall in both boggy, wet soil and drier soils. It is suited to [...]
SBS is looking for expressions of interest from any City Farm members who might like to be filmed demonstrating a recipe of your choice that uses produce either grown in your own garden or at City Farm. Ideally, the recipes have been handed down in some way from within your family and have a story, [...]
Here is a quick snap on Dom Sketchup-ing a storm. Clayton and Dom are super busy drawing every inch of the city farm site into the Google Sketchup. The result will be a full 3D representation of city farm that will be used for our re-design of the city farm site. Very exciting. Here is [...]
Hi All, A sample of the fresh picked produce our Certified Organic growers are bringing to the market place this Saturday Garlic – Broccoli – Pumpkin – Eggfruit – Rhubarb Rainbow Chard – Capsicum – Parsley – Rocket Coriander – Bik Choy – Silver beet – Mizuna Cauliflower – Celery – Lemons – Spring Onion Leek [...]
National Green Jobs Corps (NGJC )is an excellent opportunity for young people between the ages of 17 to 24. They will be provided with training in Certificate 11 in Horticulture and protective clothing (at no cost to the participant). Participants work a total of 25 hours a week spread over four days (a combination of [...]
Join us for a tea or coffee and evening snack while we help demystify issues relating to solar photovoltaic (PV) systems (e.g. solar electricity), including; • The Market – background information on the energy market in WA. • Technologies – looking at different types of PV panels, inverters and other PV equipment. • Renewable Energy [...]
City Farm recently had the pleasure of designing and facilitating the implementation of a small community garden at Love Bentley in collaboration with place making gurus MDC Places and the Brownlie Neighbourhood Project. Love Bentley is a small community centre in Brownlie Towers. Many residents of Brownlie Towers don’t have access to gardens but are keen [...]
