The Werks Farm
The Werks Farm is a small semi-rural property on the New South Wales Central Coast in Australia. John and Hong used permaculture design to make it more sustainable and self-reliant. This blog made by hobbyists has articles about life on our farm and health topics.
Farm life
Sweet potato leaves Paneer
Again this farm cook had a spark of inspiration of preparing the well know Indian dish Palak Paneer. I ventured into this dish during the past Easter when we had a guest couple here. Yes that was a bit risky if it wouldn’t succeed for our Easter vegetarian dinner. Delightedly surprised, we found the dish turned out very good, as delicious as the original Palak Paneer. The principle is using as much as possible substitutes from my garden as ingredients instead of commercial ones from supermarket. I replaced the Palak (which means English spinach) with the abundant sweet potato leaves from out garden, added our home grown ginger, tomatoes and shallots. Ingredients: A few tips on preparing the dish. Instructions
Health
Miscellaneous
2,200 year-old irrigation system still operating in Dujiangyan
In March, during our holidays in China, we visited the famous irrigation system at Dujiangyan in Sichuan province. We had less than 2 hours to visit the place. While it was scenic, I couldn’t figure out how it worked until I researched it once I was back home.