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Welcome to my blog. I hope that by sharing my journey - getting to know and use some of the indigenous foods that grow in the Western Cape, South Africa, where I live - I might entice others to join in. 

Many of the ingredients I have been exploring are Sand Fynbos plants, but I do also experiment with any other local indigenous foods I might come across as I venture around and out of town.

It really makes little sense to me that we live in one of the worlds most rich plant kingdoms and yet we eat virtually nothing of what is around us.

Several of our indigenous garden plants that are available in nurseries are edible, and these are the easy ones to start getting to know, grow and use. In time, I hope to see some of the lesser known wild food plants grown, sold and used as well. 

I have started to collaborate with some of our local food growing organisations like Abalimi Bezekhaya, SEED, Food and Trees for Africa, Together Trust and Oranjezicht City Farm, in the hopes of encouraging larger scale growing across a range of communities. 

Interested people can buy some of my small runs of bottled produce at the various courses and talks I present. Or can get a taste of indigenous at the cooking classes and dinners where I hope to tantalize others into embarking on their own indigenous culinary journeys.

I hope this blog will provide a more comprehensive and easily accessible way of sharing than my Making KOS page has given, where inevitably posts gradually disappear down ones timeline.

And then, in due course, there will be a book ...