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Food for Walk

As students sought inspiration and had some really good
during lockdown, our Student responses. The Walking Guide took
Environment Committee turned a bit more work, including having a
really good look at online information,
its mind to finding creative checking out Google Maps, and then
ways to help everyone navigate walking the paths ourselves to check
the various stages of COVID for local knowledge and tips. There was
restrictions. Dr Powell caught also a lot of sharing in terms of others in
the College with local knowledge – we
up with Bec Carra, Chair of the set out to find local walks that looked
Committee, to talk about two amazing and we would want to do
initiatives that were particularly ourselves.
popular: a Walking Guide, and a
Vegetarian Cookbook. Any revelations? Favourite recipes?
In terms of the Cookbook, I used it to
Bec, what inspired you to put together Melbourne is pretty amazing, with cook a fantastic meal over the holidays.
some really good walks close to
the JCH Walking Guide? Balsamic glazed chick peas and Swiss
College. The surprise for me was to chard linguine, which I thoroughly
come across walks that were nearby
As restrictions came into effect lots of recommend. One suggested recipe
people were going on walks, and by the and involved historical landmarks, which did catch my eye was ‘Onions’.
indigenous heritage, colonial sites, and
middle of the year everyone was getting That’s it – onions!
a bit tired of taking the same routes, so amazing flora and fauna – including the
bats down at Yarra Bend, which have
we thought we’d try to find some new
options. Although the numbers kept the biggest mammal migration in the
Southern Hemisphere.
changing, getting outside for exercise
was one of the small number of things
we were allowed to do in groups, so
we really wanted to encourage people
to get out of the building and take in a
bit of nature.

And what about the Cookbook?
What was the inspiration for that?

Partly that was a chance to spread the
joy of vegetarian and vegan food. Partly
it was in response to demand from
students who were planning to move
out of College and needed some tips for
easy and tasty recipes.

So how did you go about compiling
your information?

It was different for each. We did a
shout out to students in terms of the
Cookbook,

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