Welcome to the issue
Within days of Jo Immig filing her piece on microplastics in our oceans and all the horrors that entails, the ABC ran a story on the same subject in its Catalyst program. The program showed how the levels found in the bodies of sea creatures were measurable and scary, providing yet more bad news about our food sources and cause to think more deeply about food safety. And what can be safer than growing your own? So what are we growing in the pages of this issue? Jennifer Stackhouse writes on sweet potato, olives, cauliflower and mushrooms, as well as clever crops jaboticaba and marrowfat peas — the kind used for English-style mushy peas and Japanese wasabi peas. Meanwhile, Melissa King says it’s time to plant sage and oregano, flavours no cook…