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Loubie Rusch
Cape Wild Foods books
Author Loubie Rusch has been exploring the forgotten and underutilised local indigenous foods of the Cape since 2010. The two Guides described below are collaborations with the Sustainability Institute and the Local WILD Food Hub. They bring much more comprehensive information about growing and using Cape foods.
Cape Wild Foods
A Growers Guide by Loubie Rusch
The Growers Guide is aimed at small farmers and home gardeners and provides plant and cultivation information as well as images about a selection of 22 local indigenous food plants. The aim of the book is to encourage people to get to know and grow some of our local indigenous wild foods of the Cape that have fallen out of use in post colonial times.
R300.00
Per copy
Cape Wild Foods
A Cook’s Guide by Loubie Rusch
The Cooks Guide is the sequel and culinary compendium to the Growers Guide, covering the same 22 plants. It is aimed at home and professional cooks, providing ingredient information, menu and cooking ideas and recipes to follow about local foods they may be intrigued by, but are not sure how to use in cooking.
R400.00
Per copy
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Wild Harvest Products
Long ago, and lasting for a period of millennia, the Cape Floristic Region was experienced by its local inhabitants as a richly biodiverse edible landscape.
In the very recent past, however, modern agriculture has come to present the single biggest threat to its biodiversity, while its edibles have become largely forgotten and ignored.
We are, in collaboration with local wild foods innovator and expert Loubie Rusch, cultivating and reviving the use of some of the local indigenous plants that occur naturally in this region, and also using food garden waste that is so copiously generated in our food system.
The WILD HARVEST range of salts, seed mixes and vinegars make use of the nutritious and flavourful, sustainably grown local wild herbs and leafy greens as well as wild weeds and vegetable offcuts that are usually either ignored or thrown onto the compost heap. In buying this product you are supporting the livelihood opportunities as well as the landscape regeneration opportunities the project is enabling.
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