Mar 9, 2022
Permaculture is the development of agricultural systems that are sustainable and self-sufficient.
Anna, more widely known as "The
Urban Nanna", is a former primary school teacher with a
horticultural background. Nowadays, rather than a stuffy building,
the great outdoors is her classroom. Anna teaches traditional ways
of crafting, preserving, and cooking, all the while living in the
precarious rental market of suburban Australia.
Olivia spoke with Anna at her wifi-less home, to discuss how
foraging goes far beyond food, and the reviving of cultural
traditions involving connection to Country and community. Listening
to this episode will make you see the urban world around you in a
completely new way, from using roses for flavour, to hawthorn for
lowering blood pressure, wild violet and cherry blossom for infused
sugars, and pine mushrooms for pizzas, stocks, and
risottos.