Apples at their finest!
These long hot golden days are lulling us into the belief that summer will go on forever – but our produce knows better. ...read more
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04, 2023
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03, 2023
Peace, Love & Crepes
PEACE, LOVE AND CREPES Cecile Cherrue, crepe maker extraordinaire, cannot conceive of any other lifestyle that would give her the satisfaction she has ...read more
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12, 2022
Blessed are the Cheese makers
Cheese is one of my favourite foods, so it follows that I’m going to love a cheesemaker. And in this case, Deb Allard ...read more
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11, 2022
Heritage Tomatoes are the Tastiest
A friend of mine tells me that they were one of the more compelling reasons for her move to the Northern Rivers. Coopers ...read more
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10, 2022
Everest Farms
Between the water-logged soils of the cane-fields and the inland porous soils lies the fertile property of Everest Farm. At the back of ...read more
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10, 2022
Blueberry Fields Forever
It’s one of the most anticipated seasons of the farmers market year. Those blueberries, fat spheres of juicy sweetness, are such a far ...read more
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10, 2022
It’s a family affair
The Forrest’s ginger is so fat it seems to be bursting out of its thin papery sheath. ‘It looks likes cartoon ginger!’ I ...read more
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07, 2022
Local Dorper Lamb
There was the temptation to replace knife and fork with fingers, to raise that shank in all its unctuous sauce and juices to my ...read more
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07, 2022
Crabbes Creek Woodfired
There’s a contingent of Europeans who don’t mind travelling a considerable distance in order to stock up on Jon and Gina Hutton’s wood-fired bread. ...read more
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06, 2022
Sowing The Seed
I’d had my oregano seedlings for less than a week and I thought they might like the kitchen window sill, where on the rare ...read more