Chris and I have left the farm to travel to Ireland and England for a much-needed break. We’ll be eating our way around both countries, gathering inspiration as we travel from place to place.
Wild sourplums, or mungomba, as the Tonga people call them, taste like pucker maraschino cherries infused with almond.
It’s taken me longer than usual to craft this blogpost. In truth, I wasn’t sure where to begin.
Our guava season has ended, and what a season it was. For the first time ever, hardly a guava was stung by pests and we had more fruit than we knew what to do with.
I realized just how insignificant I was in this world when Zimbabwean mycologist, Cathy Sharp, held a course about fungi on our farm last weekend.
September and October for us here in the Zambezi Valley is much like it is for haute couture in Paris: it’s Fashion Week.