Heirloom vegetables: Harvest from Simon Rickard's book

By Karen Hardy
Updated September 30 2014 - 10:08am, first published August 25 2014 - 9:46am
Old style: These tomatoes more closely resemble their ancestors than most grown today.
Old style: These tomatoes more closely resemble their ancestors than most grown today.
Heirloom corn.
Heirloom corn.
Heirloom corn.
Heirloom corn.
Old style: These tomatoes more closely resemble their ancestors than most grown today.
Old style: These tomatoes more closely resemble their ancestors than most grown today.

Simon Rickard, music historian, bassoonist, was working at the ANU School of Music lecturing in  music history when he decided he'd rather be mowing lawns and cutting hedges.