A Palace of Spices
It’s one of several missions Spice Palace’s Bex is currently on. The luscious dips, the zingy spice mixes, the salsas and the hummuses ...read more
Nourish Your Body
You never want to eat again. Weeks of rich food and perhaps excessive alcohol have left you heavy and jaded at a time ...read more
Crabbes Creek Woodfired Sourdough
CRABBES CREEK SOURDOUGH It’s the fragrance of burning wood which seduces me first. Before me, flames roar in the low-domed, three-meter-deep brick cavity, ...read more
Award Winning Woodland Valley Farm
No strangers to awards, the latest for Fabian Fabbro and Jodie Vickers of Woodland Valley Farm, however, blew them away. In October they ...read more
Brunswick Valley Seed Oysters
Noel Baggaley’s not been long back at the markets. He’s had a rough couple of years – the heat at Christmas plus flooding ...read more
Greens from The Farm
GREENS FROM THE FARM The scapes, by the time you read this, may no longer be around. The long green shoots which grow ...read more
The Legendary Coopers Shoot Tomatoes
The day I visit my friend Lynette she’s preparing a second round of snacks for her boys, not long returned from the farmers’ ...read more
Breadicine – The Gut Friendly Bakers
‘It’s so hard to find good gluten-free stuff’, says a woman buying a muffin from the Breadicine stall. She’s merely one of a ...read more
School Holidays Fun
School holidays again – and don’t they seem to roll around with alarming frequency? The dilemma, however, of what to do with restless ...read more
Berries Galore
STRAWBERRIES AND BLUEBERRIES ‘The buckets are in!’ Dean tells me. Sure enough, those white plastic buckets filled with 1.25kg of blueberries command one ...read more
