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
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12, 2024
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12, 2024
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
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12, 2024
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
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11, 2024
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
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11, 2024
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
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10, 2024
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
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10, 2024
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
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10, 2024
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
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07, 2024
Playing with Fire – Native Foods
PLAYING WITH FIRE Their excitement is infectious. Young schoolboys in uniform cluster around Rebecca Barnes’ stall as she passes the finger limes around: ...read more
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06, 2024
Forrest Organic
At the Forrest’s stall while Dave serves and chats to customers, wife Sue is showing me the magazine she’s been editor of for ...read more