Sustain

Yesterday I made the trek into Moore Park to go to the Sustain organic expo with my Aunty Jo & Breanna. Had a fantastic time looking at the different products, sampling wares and spending time with Jo. I still haven't worked out how to get photos on. I know the theory but can't do it from my phone & I can't find where on my computer my photo files are! When I do I'll put up pics of my stash. In the meantime here's a small run down on what I got: Subscriptions to both ABC Organic Gardener & earth Garden. Two fantastic magazines that I buy. At Organic Gardener I got a free gardening book for liking them on Facebook. At Earth Garden I bought a bread book, bok choy seeds & spinach seeds ( these will be for the greedy chickens). Speaking of seeds I also got butternut pumpkin, gramma pumpkin, chiggioa beet root & lots of garlic. Coconut oil, flour, dried coconut, proper chocolate. I have never tried cooking with coconut flour but I'll have an attempt today. Tri coloured quinoa. Again haven't used it but have wanted to try. Stainless steel divided children's plates, reusable snack & sandwich bags, reusable produce bags. These are because I'm trying to limit the amount of plastic we use as a family. Soap nuts, bamboo brush. From the same guy I get my bamboo toothbrushes from. Coconut milk in BPA free cans. Why do we use BPA? Rock dust to help improve my soil condition. Kombucha. I also got a ton of freebie magazines, food samples etc. big Thankyou to Mojo Kombucha for the free bottle, TOM for the sample and Spiral Foods. Where I live they do coal seam gas, so I also signed petitions, got stickers, posters & a bag against coal seam & mining in food production areas (food security is close to my heart). Also signed petitions against GM foods. Lunch was a sourdough steak sandwich with rocket, beet root & caramelised onion followed by a glass of organic cab sav. It was fantastic to be at an expo and be able to use real silver wear, glasses and plates. Heaps better for the environment and made you feel like "yes I'm a person who can actually eat of china without breaking it". So many expos & shows make you use plastic. Today after doing the usual cleaning & cooking thing, I'm going to sit down and read through the literature that I recieved yesterday.