FOR the second year in a row Write Around the Murray gathered around the Community Wood Fired Ovens in Albury.
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Author Jackie French shared stories and recipes with about 150 who assembled at Hovell Tree Park on Sunday afternoon.
The Australian National Children’s Laureate for 2014 and 2015 and the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year told them how she transformed her two-hectare property into a garden that fed her family, neighbours and the menagerie of native animals that sheltered there.
She spoke of hundreds of fruit trees and a garden that was largely perennial.
“I had a share-cow – called Jackie by my neighbour – so I learnt to make green cheese with the excess milk,” she said.
“Green cheese is a soft, young cheese.
“For celebrations like Christmas I add cream to the cheese, sugar and cointreau and finish with chocolate shavings and raspberries.”
The Community Wood Fired Ovens are fired up every second Sunday for free community use.
An oven co-ordinator is on hand to help people bake their bread, pizza, scones, roasts and biscuits.
It next operates on September 18 from 11am until 4pm.
The daylight saving hours of 3pm until 8pm apply from October 2.
The ovens are lit the night before a bake.