Richard Hay🌾
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Richard Hay🌾
@harvestofhay.bsky.social
Mostly I just grow things hey🌱

Curator: Future Africa Indigenous and Orphan Crops Collection, University of Pretoria

Conservation Project Coordinator: Botanical Society of South Africa
...and my favourite sweet potatoes from our veg garden!
July 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Featuring some insane carrots from our friends at LivingSeeds...
July 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
This forms part of our Giving Garden project, which aims to make more of the unique crop species in our collection available to community food security projects🌱

www.up.ac.za/news/post_32...
UP’s Giving Garden helps community gardeners think differently about growing edible plants | University of Pretoria
Situated in the heart of the Manie van der Schijff Botanical Garden on the Hatfield Campus, it is also a valuable space for practical training and research on edible orphan and indigenous crops for UP...
www.up.ac.za
March 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
These unique onions are easy to grow, perennial, and clump-forming making them well suited to home gardening. Bulbs and leaves can be eaten fresh or cooked, with both packing a strong onion flavour🧅
March 8, 2025 at 7:48 AM
There were!
March 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Mini koeksisters with gingko nut crumb

Waterberry curd slices

Mini milk tartlets with rose-apple jam (5/5)
March 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Lunch consisted of:

Pelargonium ice tea

Roasted cherry tomato and spekboom pesto bruschetta

Quickweed and feta spanakopita

Beef meatballs with marula dipping sauce

Salami and num num jelly sandwiches

Rustic vegetable galette with African thyme (4/5)
March 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
It's always rewarding to see our plants used in such creative ways post harvest, and the students did an incredible job with this lunch😬 (3/5)
March 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This forms part of our on-going work exposing culinary and hospitality students to agrobiodiversity through their practicals by supplying produce from the Future Africa Indigenous and Orphan Crops Collection🌱 (2/5)
March 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM