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Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you had a safe, happy and celebratory time. I was extremely fortunate to have the opportunity to appear at a 3-day festival over New Year, which was a great place to be for the festivities! It was a local eco-friendly music festival, with additional healing spaces, arts spaces, kids spaces, and camping. ...

Summer CBD Mocktails

Happy Summertime! It is almost Summer Solstice, and almost Christmas. Here in the Harmony Gardens kitchen, it has also been Mocktail Time.I have been developing alcohol-free, allergy-friendly recipes for delicious summertime party drinks, with the option of incorporating medicinal cannabis. These mocktails were inspired by the very tasty-looking Pina Colada. Unfortunately, the original contains lots of rum, but the rum is definitely not missed in this version! I used whole fruit, ...

Summer holidays and Road Trips

Hi everybody, I hope you are well and enjoying the run-up to the end of the year.I have been continuing with my road-tripping. I have been catching up with customers; talking to new people about the joys and benefits of medicinal cannabis; and taking bookings for workshops. Watch this space in the New Year for information about:Garden-to-table workshops and cooking classesMedicinal cannabis workshops and cooking classesI am available to speak to groups as well, eg health professionals / practiti...

Christmas holidays

It is almost December, and Christmas is just around the corner. It has been a very busy and productive time here at HG&G. The kitchen team have been making festive medicinal foods and drinks for the season. These products are perfect if you wish to be alcohol-free, and / or if you have multiple food allergies / sensitivities.New recipes include:Lime, ginger and canna-honey syrup: use this as a base for your mocktails. Simply add soda water, garnish with strawberries and mint leaves...

Flowers!

It is almost summer here at Harmony Gardens and Grub. The gardens are growing thick and fast, and I have now achieved my mission of having flowers popping out, and colour in the garden, year-round.It is now quite a rainbow… 🌈...

Garden Salad

It has been beautiful weather here in the Bay.Today I have been prepping for a working bee tomorrow. The gardens are quite overgrown, and we will be trimming back, making structures for plants to grow up (as opposed to across the pathways…!), and adding to the compost pile. One of the joys of a garden is the harvest. I have been making a chicken soup, and also a bone broth, and it is lovely to add fresh garden produce to the mix. Today I harvested SpinachSorrelNasturtiumsBaby ge...

Breakfast of Champions!

Spring has well and truly sprung here at Harmony Gardens and Grub Ltd 🌻Now that the temperature has turned warm, our thoughts have turned to breakfast options which are suitable for the weather.Did you know - Certain foods have the same terpenes as found in cannabis, and mango is one of those foods.Mango contains the terpene Mycrene, which is present in cannabis. Some studies show that consuming mango whilst consuming cannabis, can help the cannabinoids to penetrate the blood-brain barrier mo...

Sunflower Season!

It is almost spring here in the Southern Hemisphere, and the returning signs of life are very welcome. There are lots of lovely magnolias blooming in the parks, the daffodils are all out, and the willow trees are already showing lots of green leaves. We hope you are enjoying spring weather in your corner of the world!My sunflowers are popping up already, and I have potted up the first batch. I have planted a bulk load this year, as I want to make sunflower teepees - they are so much fun! I also ...

From the garden….

It has been an extremely rainy winter here in the Hawkes Bay, and the gardens are looking a bit swampy and soggy. My original plan for the gardens was to have flowers all year round, and I am very pleased to say that I have achieved that so far. At the moment I have beautiful blue cornflowers growing and flourishing. They are the most vivid blue, in all kinds of weather, even when it is very rainy and the rest of the garden looks washed out.As well as being beautiful, cornflowers are a...

Birthday Celebrations

As you may know by now, we are very keen on celebrations here at Harmony Gardens and Grub Ltd. 💃Life is a celebration, and it is possible to celebrate life at all and every stage of it.One of the ways in which we celebrate, is to make Very Special Green Fairy cakes for birthdays. Our cakes are all free from:GlutenSugarDairy productsCaffeineAlcohol Known carcinogens eg aspartameAny artificial ingredients, sweeteners, preservatives, colourings etcThey contain superfood ingredients, as...

Persimmon Season!

For those of you who know me, you will know that persimmons are one of my very favourite fruit. They are particularly special because they are in season around the time of my birthday, which makes them a bit more celebratory for me personally. Persimmons were not available in the UK, where I grew up before I moved to New Zealand, so that makes them even more special, as well as being totally delicious!...

Off Grid Living

It is a beautiful autumn here in the Hawkes Bay, and the changing colours of the trees and orchards are stunning. Here at Harmony Gardens and Grub Ltd, we have been blessed with a permanent spot to live and build our gardens, and we have been extra-blessed with a transition into off-grid living!. Off grid living can mean many different things for people, and it doesn’t have to be totally off grid all at once. There are many ways to incorporate off-grid principles into your lifestyle, no m...

How D’you like Them Apples…..

It is well and truly autumn here in the Hawkes Bay; the first snows have been spotted on the mountains, and we even had some hail at Harmony Gardens in the recent storms! We hope that you are keeping warm and dry, and getting ready for the colder season. Here at Harmony Gardens and Grub Ltd, we are very much enjoying the harvest, of all kinds of fruits and vegetables. We have been making some delicious chicken and corn soup, with fresh ginger, to keep us warm as we work, and we topped it of...

Happy Valentine’s Day 💓

Christmas has been and gone; we have seen the New Year in; now it’s time to start thinking about treats for you and your sweetheart, to celebrate Valentine’s Day 💓Valentine’s Day falls on February 14th, but did you also know that the celebration of love can begin a full week beforehand? It’s true! According to the Hindustan Times (www.hindustantimes.com), there are seven days of love: February 7th - Rose Day - where people send roses to their sweetheart or crush, to express ...

New treats and products

As we progress into the New Year, we are taking the opportunity to work with new ingredients, and create some new recipes and products.Our latest culinary adventure has been into the world of cacao butter, and freeze dried fruit powders. Freeze dried fruit powders come in a variety of flavours, such as banana, strawberry, raspberry, mango, feijoa. They are a great way to add in the vitamins and minerals of fruit, without the moisture or the pulp, eg when making pancakes, biscuits, meringues, or ...

New Year, New Recipe

It’s a New Year, and here at Harmony Gardens and Grub we have been busy in the Research and Development kitchen. Summertime is a very sociable time here in the Southern hemisphere, with lots of BBQs, dinners, lunches, breakfasts, brunches, and general get togethers. Often people with multiple food allergies can struggle during these times, as the majority of our Western diet is based around sugar, wheat, and dairy produce. Here at HG&G, we hope to alleviate some of that struggle,...

Happy Christmas from Harmony Gardens and Grub!

It’s Christmas! The festive season is upon us, and also the long summer holidays. Here at Harmony Gardens and Grub, it is also our busy season. We are continuing with building our new gardens, and planting out in them, we are continuing to develop products in our kitchen, and we are continuing with our work as a Green Fairy service....

Cbd Christmas treats for your pets

Christmas is fast approaching, with only just a week to go until Santa gets here! 🧚‍♀️🤓 we have been busy in our kitchen today. We are making CBD Christmas gifts for our loved pets 🌲These are gummies, made with home-made chicken bone broth, and cbd-infused coconut oil. They are great to help your pets with natural pain relief, sleep, recovery from injury or surgery, and to help with anxiety at times of stress. They are super nourishing, and will help your pet to live their be...

Pre Christmas Green Fairy Pop-up

Harmony Gardens Pre Christmas Pop-upIt’s almost Christmas, and here at Harmony Gardens and Grub we have been very busy in our kitchen and Green Fairy department. We recently held a mini pre-Christmas pop-up, to showcase our medicinal cannabis edibles and drinkables, as well as our range of medicinal oils and healing balms. Thank you to everyone who came along, listened to us talk about our mission and philosophy, tried our samples, and purchased our products....

Calendula for skin health

Here at Harmony Gardens and Grub, the gardens are coming along nicely. One of the first plants I planted were calendulas, as they flower constantly, and the bees love them. They spread from a tiny seedling into a huge patch of stunning and cheerful orange and yellow flowers, and they require very little maintenance other than regular deadheading....

Medicinal cannabis for nutrition

Here at Harmony Gardens and Grub, we often talk to customers about the medicinal benefits of cannabis - pain relief, resetting the nervous system, balancing the body’s systems, cellular repair and regeneration, etc. However, cannabis is about more than just medicine. Did you know that it has a lot of nutritional properties as well? It’s true! Raw cannabis fan leaves do not contain any measurable levels of thc, and contain barely traceable levels of cbd. They do contain a rich abund...

Edible flowers

Edible Flowers For Beauty and Health Hi everyone, we hope you are enjoying the beautiful spring weather. It has been fantastic for our new gardens, and they are growing amazingly. Here at Harmony Gardens and Grub, we are building an off-grid living space and kitchen, and we are building gardens to provide produce. Our gardens are not certified organic, but all our plants are grown in organic conditions. We do not use any pesticides or herbicides, not even slug pellets! We work with the cycl...

Holidays, stress and medicinal cbd

It’s the long weekend!  For many people, it’s a chance to have a bit extra time away from work, and some time to de-stress. Holidays are often times when people reflect on their current life, and think about any changes that they would like to make. Stress seems to be our new best friend, with over 50% of New Zealanders reporting that they feel stressed to the point where it impacts their lives, and also feeling like they could not cope or deal with things. One in four New Zealande...

Garden-to-table delicious nourishing foods

We have been very busy in the kitchen, here at Harmony Gardens and Grub Ltd. We are very pleased to let you know that our garden-to-table foods are now available to order through the Open Food network at our virtual shop, Harmony Gardens and Grub Ltd (local customers only).Here we are, with the fruits of our labour. We made delicious chicken bone broth, with coconut oil, all kinds of nutritious veges, beetroot leaves from the garden, turmeric and other garden herbs and spices for health and nutr...

Is Medicinal cannabis right for you?

Many people turn to Green Fairies because they are currently being treated by the Western medical model of using multiple medications to stop symptoms. However, this method does not promote any cellular healing, and the combined side effects of the multiple medications are causing more complications and illness. Also, many of our current diseases and illnesses are caused by lifestyle choices, eg junk food, alcohol and caffeine, high stress, pollution. The good news is that these diseases ar...