by Mara | Sep 2, 2024 | Design, Fauna & Flora, In the Garden
This article was first published in The Diggers Club Magazine I truly, deeply love my garden. I love it as much as I love people and that’s because gardens are powerful healers and essential to our wellbeing. In their absence urban & rural towns become...
by Mara | Jul 22, 2024 | Fauna & Flora, In the Garden
This article was first published in Sanctuary Magazine Issue 67 Words and photography: Mara Ripani There’s nothing lovelier than a bouquet of blooms, except perhaps one picked fresh from your own garden. Expert gardenerMara Ripani sings the praises of good...
by Mara | May 31, 2024 | Baking, In the kitchen, Uncategorized
I love to teach the Bake’s Percentage. A simple set of parameters that allow you to free form the bread making process. The Baker’s Percentage states that every ingredient is a % of the total flour amount. If I am making 3 loaves of bread and each loaf...
by Mara | Dec 31, 2023 | In the Garden, In the kitchen
I met my first best gift in year ten. A girl called Sam. Then along the way I met other gifts, Kulja, Jane, Lise, Amber. All of them great listeners, open, vulnerable, authentic, real, and all of them made me feel needed. Twenty five years later they are still with me...
by Mara | Oct 5, 2023 | Fauna & Flora, Harvests, In the Garden, In the kitchen
This was first published in Sanctuary Magazine Issue 64 You are probably familiar with fruit cordials; perhaps you even have a family recipe that comes out in time for summer. But did you know that delicious drinks can be made using wild floral infusions? Mara Ripani...
