The Epsom Herb Group

08/09/2025

Amazing entree of Salmon fin’s which Shelly made for Father’s Day. Really delicious and so good to have Mike and Carli back home after 5 weeks.

03/09/2025

Where is my page

20/08/2023

We went to the Collective botanical market today at the glass house in Morningside. It was the best craft market I have been to and extremely good standard.

15/06/2023

The Cult of the Lawn.
Lawns became a “thing” in the 16th and 17th centuries, a way for the upper classes to show off…a demonstration of their dominance, that they had the resources to create ornamental gardens around their homes. Resources included bucket loads of servants who used sickles and scissors to maintain the short grass carpets. These short areas of grass were kept for games such as lawn tennis and croquet. And drinking tea.
Then, with the invention of the lawnmower, the middle classes made an effort to emulate the posh people by keeping a lawn. A demonstration that they had more than enough land , that they did not need to grow food on every last inch of it.
They had made it.
My lawn is self willed and it’s community is decided by the land here. I am addicted to lying in it because the honey smell of the clover (native to Ireland) makes everything better in my world. It’s intoxicating and hopping with pollinators.
How anyone would think a toxic bowling green lawn is better than this needs to wake up and smell the honey.
It’s time to let go of all those colonial underpinnings…a new world beckons.
Next weeks article in the is all about lawns. With providing the photos x

16/03/2023

We meet every 2nd Thursday of the month in the Epsom Community centre 202 Gillies Ave Epsom at 10am

13/02/2023

02/08/2022

Thought of the Day

02/08/2022

22/07/2022

Belated Birthday lunch for John at Ahi commercial bay. Scampi hot dogs and duck parfait tart. Butter fish and Red deer fillet wit broccoli and young kale.
Absolutely superb.

16/07/2022

Auckland at its best after 5 days of incessant rain.