by Alice Bulmer | Jan 28, 2025 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Food, Metaskills, Tools of resilience, Wellbeing
This is the second post in a series. It’s a follow-up to My friends the plants. You might like to read that one first, for context. Once upon a time, I believed herbalism was a kind of alternative medicine, prescribed by a clinical herbalist. Which it sort of...
by Alice | Apr 12, 2020 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Food
This is the story behind my new book, Meet your greens: Enliven your salads with herbal energetics. It’s about how to make amazing salads, but it’s also about a lot more than that. Meet Your Greens comes out of my lifelong interest in the different flavours of salad...
by Alice | Jan 22, 2020 | Becoming Alice, Ecology, Food
The year I was 15, my father, Ralph, gave me for Christmas a small jar containing strange white curds. He said it was a yoghurt bug. But it wasn’t like any yoghurt bug I’d ever seen. It wasn’t the kind of present Dad usually gave me. He was great at choosing gifts for...
by Alice | Dec 10, 2018 | Ecology, Food
My favourite plant is the nettle. The European stinging nettle, Urtica dioica. There’s a nettle patch at the bottom of my garden. Nettles aren’t pretty or sculptural, unlike many other plants that are considered weeds. But they are interesting and very useful....
by Alice | May 27, 2018 | Alternative economics, Food, New Zealand culture
This is a post about local food. I love eating food grown in my region, the Waikato in New Zealand’s heartland. I don’t think local food is just an idealistic middle class fad, as some cynical commentators claim. But the local food economy is an interesting and...
by Alice | Oct 4, 2016 | Ecology, Food, Wellbeing
It’s important that those of us who care about food quality get our heads clear about why we need organic certification. Recently I’ve been hearing a lot of people dissing organics. Some say, “Organic certification is just too hard and expensive.” Others say,...
