indira naidoo the edible city

‘Floating above the concrete and steel and gritty tarmac of the Cross is the most wondrous, improbable urban oasis I’ve ever seen’
— Indira Naidoo

About The Edible City

Following the runaway success of her bestselling debut The Edible Balcony, Indira Naidoo returns with The Edible City, an inspirational collection of stories of ‘green guerrillas’ all over the country on a mission to convert wasted urban land into productive spaces to grow food.

We join Indira as she visits some of Australia’s most innovative and memorable kitchen gardens and urban green spaces — the audacious garden in the sky providing a haven (and honey) for homeless visitors, the school bush-tucker garden reconnecting Indigenous kids with their heritage, the rooftop worm farm combatting food waste at a Melbourne restaurant, and the community gardens bringing neighbours together to share meals and stories.

The book is interspersed with practical information about how to build your own community garden including choosing a location, seeking permission to use it and how, when and what to plant. Indira also shares vital ‘how-to’ information on seed saving and composting, as well as a bibliography with invaluable resources and references.

Forty delicious garden-inspired recipes will leave your mouth watering including edible flower salad, prosciutto and blue cheese tart, baked Greek chicken with olives and sinful cheesecake brownies with pistachio pashmak.

This warm and engaging book will inspire even the most reluctant green thumbs to channel their inner gardeners and reconnect with nature, while also saving money and reducing their carbon footprint.

About Indira Naidoo

Indira Naidoo’s television broadcast career has spanned more than two decades. She has anchored and reported for some of the country’s most distinguished news and current affair programmes, including the ABC’s Late Edition nightly news and SBS TV’s award-winning World News Tonight.

In 2009 she was selected from 2000 applicants to be trained by former US President Al Gore as a climate change presenter. In 2013 she was appointed an ambassador for the Sydney homeless centre the Wayside Chapel and conducts weekly gardening classes on its award-winning rooftop vegetable garden.

Indira’s bestselling book The Edible Balcony documented her adventures growing fruit and vegetables on her inner-city balcony and then making them into delicious recipes. She also writes the popular food and gardening blog at saucyonion.blogspot.com.

Archive:

Indira Naidoo — The Edible City: Grow Cook Share

Tuesday, 2 February 2016, 12:30pm – 1:30pm

Venue: Mitchell Theatre

Join TV broadcaster and best-selling author Indira Naidoo as she discusses the inspiring green guerrillas who are turning wasted urban space into food gardens to feed their communities — and how you can, too!

When Indira transformed her tiny thirteenth-floor balcony into a bountiful kitchen garden, it changed her life forever. She also came to realise that gardening spaces in cities are limited only by the imagination .

Indira will also provide tips on how to compost, keep a worm farm or backyard beehive and share some of her delicious garden-fresh recipes from her new book The Edible City.

Indira Naidoo — The Edible City: Grow Cook Share

FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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