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Podcast: Saturday Morning with Jack Tame
Episode: Ruud Kleinpaste: Harvesting fruit and making jam
Description: A few weeks ago, I came across one of my favourite Native trees: the Tree Fuchsia. Most people in the world that grow house plants know Fuchsia as an elegant producer of flowers. I took my Dutch Cousin to Banks Peninsula, and he simply thought I was taking the micky: how can you have a Fuchsia species that grows up to 12 meters? The flowers are beautiful and the bark is outstanding – literally. But the seeds are something else again, dark purple, soft and edible.  Instead of eating these seeds raw or cooking them int...