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Carly Baker-Burnham (Bonnie Doone Organic Beef) - Winds of change

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:54:00 -0000

Carbon neutral climate positive agriculture is not the first thing many people think of when it comes to cattle farming but in Queensland Carly Baker-Burnham and her family from Bonnie Doone Organic Beef have an incredible story of evolution, generational change and now Australia’s first and largest soil carbon sequestration.

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Tania Walter (Burrum Biodynamics) - a life of creativity, variety, challenge and meaningful rewards

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 00:46:00 -0000

Tania and Stephen Walter are biodynamic grain farmers in north-western Victoria. Burrum Biodynamics is a place of dark cracking soil and grey loam, red clay and sand, underpinning fields and wildlife reserves which attract native birds. The Walters grow oats, wheat, barley, lentils and rye according to biodynamic principles. It’s a life of creativity, variety, challenge and meaningful rewards that go beyond yield and balance sheets.

This episode is part of our miniseries around Grainz, a gathering of producers, bakers, brewers and sourdough enthusiasts. Listen to our episodes with Nick Shelley and Laura Valli, which are also centred on Grainz.

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Tess Sellar (Sellar Farmhouse Creamery) - making a go of dairy farming

Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:43:00 -0000

How many cows do you need to milk to call yourself a dairy farmer?

Tess Sellar has 10 friendly girls at her farm on Dja Dja Wurrung country in central Victoria. As Sellar Farmhouse Creamery, she bottles milk and makes yoghurt, selling both directly to local customers who value short supply chains and delicious dairy.

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Royce Akers (Pep) - adding some spice

Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:00:00 -0000

Royce Akers is one third of Pep, a peppy new Australian brand shaking up the world of pepper. Even though pepper has a dramatic and storied history, a driver of fortunes and cross-cultural connection, Royce and his friends thought it had lost its way a little: ubiquitous but under appreciated, rarely elevated or feted in the same way that salt is, for example.

From lack comes opportunity…

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Sam Lentini (Eastcoast Beverages) - Tree to bottle

Sun, 26 Oct 2025 23:56:00 -0000

For six decades the Lentini Family citrus farm has been passed down through three generations, squeezing love and care into their range of fresh juices. Sam Lentini from Eastcoast Beverages has been a key figure in the longevity of one of Australia’s most influential farming families.

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Ann Lyster (Apple grower) - bravo to great apples

Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:00:00 -0000

West Australian apple grower Ann Lyster is also the chairperson of Fruit West Co-operative. She didn’t start life as a farmer but she finds it extraordinarily satisfying, rich and diverse. Not only is there the joy of feeding people, there are also the challenges and learning opportunities of digging into everything from soil to marketing to intellectual property.

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00:00 Introduction to Lister Orchards

02:59 The Seasonal Cycle of Apple Farming

05:53 Transitioning to Farming Life

08:52 The Bravo Apple: A New Variety

11:33 The Role of Cooperatives in Farming

14:59 Marketing and Exporting Apples

17:33 The Science and Art of Apple Farming

20:48 The Joy of Apples and Their Versatility

23:30 The Beauty of Apple Trees

25:39 Conclusion and Reflections on Farming

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Astrid Birt (Fresh Tracks Farm) - Raise the kids

Tue, 03 Jun 2025 04:21:00 -0000

Keen to escape the city life, Astrid Birt (Fresh Tracks Farm) took over the family property in rural Western Australia where she is now raising a young family, cattle, sheep and chickens on a small-scale regenerative farm.

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Bruce Maynard (Wheat and Sheep farmer) - valuing diversity and soil health

Mon, 26 May 2025 18:00:00 -0000

Bruce Maynard isn’t farming like those around him. His fields at Willydah, west of Dubbo in NSW, look different, greener, wilder, a little more chaotic. He’s a wheat and sheep farmer like many in the region, but he’s just as interested in lizards, migratory birds and native legumes as grain yield. Where the system pushes for simplicity, he’s valuing diversity and soil health, and looking for ways that agriculture can be both profitable and sustainable.

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Grampians Wimmera Mallee Episode 7 - The Producers: Claire Morgan (Rupanyup Living) - farmer, maker and regional advocate

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 18:00:00 -0000

Claire Morgan is a farmer, maker and regional advocate, helping people understand where their food comes from and how important it is to have thriving rural towns. She’s growing chickpeas and making chickpea brownies and along the way she’s showing locals and visitors that Rupanyup really is a ‘town with pulse’.

This episode is part of a special Dirty Linen and Producers series about the Grampians, Wimmera and Mallee regions in western Victoria. We drove the roads, saw the sights, said hello to the roos and emus, met the people, ate the food, drank the wine and generally soaked up the delights.

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Rob Lockhart (Potato Farmer) - celebrating the spud.

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 23:58:00 -0000

Central Victorian farmer Rob Lockhart grows wheat, oats, lambs and beef but potatoes are his main deal. We talk about the ups and downs of farming, small town life and SpudFest, a festival that takes over Trentham on the first weekend in May.

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Gemma Deavin (Mount Henry Honey) - A new story to tell

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 18:00:00 -0000

At the base of the Blue Mountains former journalist Gemma Deavin and her family are producing Mount Henry Honey that truly captures a sense of time and place in each jar.

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Courtney Young (Woodstock Flour) - the flavour of flour

Wed, 12 Feb 2025 03:14:27 -0000

Flour isn’t just the stuff that makes a loaf of bread stand up. It’s an ingredient of provenance, with its own flavour and backstory. At least, that’s how it’s done at Courtney Young’s Woodstock Flour. With husband Ian, she nurtures soil, grows and sources quality grain, and stone-mills it into flour of great character.

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Caroline Kropack (Brazen Brownies) - Fortune favours the brave

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 22:48:00 -0000

After working their entire careers in the corporate world, Caroline Kropack and her husband George decided to throw it all in and do something they love. After years of experimentation they took the leap and Brazen Brownies was born.

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Andrew Fairley (Yarra Valley Cherries) - multi-generational fruit producer

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 17:00:00 -0000

There aren’t many truly seasonal products but cherries are one of those fruits that only appear as the weather warms up. By January they are more or less gone again. For me, they are more exciting than Christmas.

Andrew Fairley is a lawyer and cherry farmer. Yarra Valley Cherries is home to 20,000 trees that provide up to 200 tonnes of cherries every year. This will be Andrew’s 10th harvest on this farm but he is honouring a multi-generational heritage as a fruit producer.

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Genevieve Muir (Coast of Gold) - Shito Hot

Tue, 12 Nov 2024 02:02:04 -0000

After losing her business during Covid, Genevieve Muir spent more time in the kitchen cooking the food of her West African heritage. Keen to master a prized condiment, she spent months tweaking the recipe until her extended family approved. And now, Coast of Gold Shitto is on shelves across the country.

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AgriCULTURED Special Series Episode 4: Annette Reed (Tasmanian Natural Garlic and Tomatoes) - grown with passion and care.

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 00:04:00 -0000

Welcome to the final episode in our miniseries collaboration between Producers podcast and AgriCULTURED, a festival which showcases and connects the produce and people of northern Tasmania, or Lutruwita as it’s called in Aboriginal culture.

So far, we’ve heard from duck farmer Bec Rumble, vegetable grower Wouter Sels, winemaker Linda Morice and finally we’re chatting to Annette Reed from Tasmanian Natural Garlic and Tomatoes. With her husband Nevil, she farms tomatoes and garlic half an hour from Launceston.

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AgriCULTURED Special Series Episode 3: Linda Morice (Sinapius Vineyard) - determination, strong values, tragedy and resilience

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:36:00 -0000

Welcome to the third collaboration between Deep in the Weeds’ Producers podcast and AgriCULTURED, a festival which showcases and connects the produce and people of northern Tasmania, or Lutruwita as it’s called in Aboriginal culture. This is a special part of the world, with beautiful, fertile lands, true seasons, and rich traditions. So far, we’ve heard from duck farmer Bec Rumble, vegetable grower Wouter Sels and today we’re talking to winemaker Linda Morice, of Sinapius.

Sinapius is in the Pipers Brook wine region, north of Launceston and inland from Bass Strait. It’s a closely-planted vineyard, with mostly pinot noir, chardonnay and gamay, produced with low intervention techniques to express the region.

Working this land and living in this community has been a story of determination, strong values, tragedy and resilience.

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AgriCULTURED Special Series Episode 2 - Wouter Sels (Seven Springs Farm) - an isolated life rich in connection

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 18:00:00 -0000

Today, we meet Wouter Sels from Seven Springs Farm. Wouter farms pretty, hilly country nestled in forest almost two hours west of Launceston. Born into a Belgian farming family, Wouter, his wife and their three young children live off-grid, feeding themselves and supplying the community and a select group of chefs with delicious and nutritious produce. Life is somewhat isolated, but it’s rich in connection.

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AgriCULTURED Special Series Episode 1 - Bec Rumble (Lone Goose Farm) - a fascinating farming story

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 18:40:00 -0000

Welcome to the third collaboration between Deep in the Weeds’ Producers podcast and AgriCULTURED, a festival which showcases and connects the produce and people of northern Tasmania, or Lutruwita as it’s called in Aboriginal culture. This is a special part of the world, with beautiful, fertile lands, true seasons, and rich traditions. Many farmers are on generational properties but others - like today’s guest - are producer newbies.

Our first podcast in this series is with duck farmer Bec Rumble, from Lone Goose Farm in the Meander Valley. Like many small farmers in northern Tassie, she’s a corporate escapee from the ‘big island’, having moved from Melbourne with her husband Paul, and learning a lot about Muscovy ducks very, very quickly. Join us as we meet their ‘lone goose’ Gayle and hear a fascinating farming story.

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Brendan Gamze (Gamze Smokehouse) - full of pride

Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:00:00 -0000

Brendan Gamze is part of Gamze Smokehouse, a family-run smallgoods company in north-east Victoria. Building on his father Felix’s work as a butcher, Gamze turns free-range whole beasts into small-batch chemical-free smoked products, working with local farmers, distributors, and retailers near and far to build an ethical business they can stand behind with pride.

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Rhiannon Phillips (Mountain’s Gourmet) - Do it yourself

Mon, 08 Jul 2024 18:00:00 -0000

Disillusioned with conventional farming practises, Rhiannon Phillips set off on a journey to make a change. She started her own farm – Mountains Gourmet where she is committed to growing healthy produce for residents of the Blue Mountains of NSW.

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Narie Preston (Wot’s Ya Caper) - growing, picking and processing

Mon, 01 Jul 2024 23:35:30 -0000

Narie Preston owns the delightfully named Wot’s Ya Caper, a caper and caperberry farm in Bealiba in central Victoria. Narie and her partner Mark didn’t plan to get into capers but somehow this curious plant found them and turned their retirement into a period of dawn rising and hard toil. They’re busy growing, picking and processing a crop that turns into a product they love for its versatility, nourishment and opportunity to share and communicate.

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Jane Casey (Mountain Yuzu) - if life gives you yuzu

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 18:00:00 -0000

Mountain Yuzu is located on the foothills of the Australian Alps in North East Victoria. It is here where Jane Casey and her husband Brian grow an array of unique cold climate culinary citrus including Yuzu, Sudachi, Bergamot and Chinotto.

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Robert Jones (Tuki) - diversification is key

Mon, 13 May 2024 18:00:00 -0000

Robert Jones was born on Stoney Rises, the third generation on his family’s sheep farm in central Victoria. In 1985, he saw the need for diversification in a traditional livestock enterprise so he launched Tuki, a trout fishing venue where visitors could come to catch a fish and - if they wanted - have it cooked for them on the property. Nearly 40 years later, Tuki is a restaurant, farm and accommodation destination, with an exciting new dining chapter underway.

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Tara Croker (Yaala Sparkling) - changing the game

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:00:00 -0000

Wiradjuri woman Tara Croker is the founder of Yaala Sparkling, a purpose-driven flavoured mineral water company that uses native ingredients to create healthy and delicious drinks. Ethics are at the heart of the business: Tara aims to change the game when it comes to the economic pathways of indigenous foods and as Yaala grows, she hopes to create employment for Indigenous people too.

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Debb Makin (Ratio Cocoa Roasters) - chocolate lover

Mon, 25 Mar 2024 17:00:00 -0000

Anyone who’s making 7 different types of chocolate gelato deserves our attention. Debb Makin is a chocolate lover, craftsperson, educator and determined small business owner at Ratio Cocoa Roasters, expanding ideas of how to appreciate and enjoy chocolate. Along the way, she’s also empowering consumers: once people understand the issues embedded in this complicated and often opaque international industry, they are also able to be part of a swing towards ethical consumption and clear-eyed enjoyment.

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Josh Murray (Josh’s Rainbow Eggs) - the boy with a bunch of happy chickens

Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:00:00 -0000

I remember when Josh’s Rainbow Eggs first arrived at my local supermarket 14 or 15 years ago. The brightly coloured box promised free range eggs and the packaging had a photo of a young boy’s face on it - how great to be able to support a kid in his ethical business, I thought. Josh Murray was nine then and he’s 23 now. What is the backstory to this boy with a bunch of happy chickens?

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Ian ‘Herbie’ Hemphill (Herbie’s Spices) - Enthusiastic and endlessly interested

Mon, 12 Feb 2024 17:00:00 -0000

When you talk about herbs and spices in Australia, it won’t be long before you talk about Ian ‘Herbie’ Hemphill. The co-owner of Herbie’s SpiceS has been immersed in food since he was a small child and he’s built a life and career in flavour that’s been fruitful not just for himself but for all those who have learnt and enjoyed alongside him. Enthusiastic and endlessly interested, Herbie is as adept at chatting about the history of cloves or coriander as he is about how to use them.

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James Zerella (Gardner’s Bay Farm) - A gardeners life

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 17:00:00 -0000

After years plying his trade as a chef, James Zerella needed a change but wanted to continue to make a difference in the food industry. It led him to the land where he is part owner of Gardner’s Bay Farm in Southern Tasmania.

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Ann-Marie Monda and Carla Meurs (Holy Goat Cheese) - life choices, connection and commitment

Tue, 23 Jan 2024 01:49:25 -0000

The Producers Podcast visited Holy Goat's Ann-Marie Monda and Carla Meurs in 2021. We sat on the deck at Sutton Grange Farm with their kelpie and a pot of tea, talking about ethics, pathways and - of course - cheese. Like every meeting with these two, it was a conversation with impact, provoking consideration of life choices, connection and commitment. To commemorate, the announcement of Holy Goat's cessation, we re-share this episode.

Since 1999, Ann-Marie Monda and Carla Meurs have been nurturing, creating and crafting at Sutton Grange Farm on Dja Dja Wurrung Country near Castlemaine in Victoria. The goats they milk to make their revered farmhouse cheese are central to the rhythm of their days.

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The Deep in the Weeds Podcast Network Christmas Special - Stocking fillers

Wed, 20 Dec 2023 22:04:05 -0000

It’s the Deep in the Weeds podcast network Christmas episode and we’ve rounded up all our hosts - Dani Valent, Shanteh Wale, John Susman and Anthony Huckstep for a good old chin wag on the year that was, what were hoping for in 2024 and a few Christmas yarns too. Tune in!

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Michelle Morgan (Zokoko Chocolate) - bean to bar

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 23:42:13 -0000

In 2006, Michelle Morgan and her husband Dean founded Zokoko with a shared vision to create artisan chocolate with natural flavours that showcased their origin, retained their natural flavours and seasonal characteristics. Since then, they’ve created one of the world’s most unique premium chocolates that is truly bean to bar.

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Alison Jones (Wandin Valley Farms) - all things cherries

Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:00:00 -0000

In a world where we can get just about anything just about anytime, it’s wonderfully exciting to have truly seasonal crops that mark a time of year. Cherries are certainly in that category. They’re a crop that signals summer, the festive season and a continuing connection to natural cycles. We talk all things cherries with Alison Jones, lifetime cherry farmer and CEO of Wandin Valley Farms.

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Ann Furner (Naturally Dried Prunes) - Nice plums

Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:00:00 -0000

The first of its kind in Australia, Naturally Dried Prunes are the most sustainable prune farm down under, utilising prune drying tunnels that have reduced the carbon footprint by 95% during the drying process. But, as Ann Furner explains that’s just part of their story.

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Katrina Myers (Barham Avocados) - for the love of the avo

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 17:00:00 -0000

Katrina Myers and her husband Tim own Barham Avocados, on the Murray River in New South Wales. It’s Katrina’s family farm but she wasn’t always sure she’d return to it. As it turns out, she loves the beautiful green haven they’ve created in a mostly arid area, and she’s also a huge fan of the avocados they grow for themselves and lucky consumers.

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Giaan Rooney (Macadamia Farmer) - from medals to macadamias

Mon, 13 Nov 2023 17:00:00 -0000

You might know Giaan Rooney as an Olympic swimmer - she won a gold medal for Australia in the 2004 Athens Olympics as part of the 4 x 100m medley relay team. And you might have seen her on TV, presenting everything from the weather to Postcards. But did you know this one time athlete is now also a macadamia farmer? Along with her fifth-generation farmer husband Sam and their kids, Giaan now lives on a farm in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales.

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Maurie Cafra (Cafresco Organics) - remarkably consistent

Mon, 23 Oct 2023 17:00:00 -0000

Maurie Cafra owns Cafresco Organics in Koo Wee Rup in Victoria, a South Gippsland region remarkable for its black soil and suitability for growing food. Maurie grew up on the farm and still lives here so in some ways, things have stayed remarkably consistent. In other ways, a lot has changed. Maurie went against the grain and transitioned to organic farming, becoming certified in 1997. As he tells us, he didn’t get pats on the back from his neighbours, but the proof is in his viable business and the increasing biodiversity on his farm.

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Roz Kaldor-Aroni (Elato ice Cream) - The mathematics of ice cream

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 17:00:00 -0000

Combining her background in applied chemistry with gelato and ice cream training in Australia, Italy and Canada, Roz Kaldor-Aroni from Elato finessed her own formula and developed a patented technique to reduce sugars, remove chemicals and achieve important health star ratings in her ice cream – and it's a flavour bomb too.

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Peter Salleras (Fruit Forest Farm) - farmer, trailblazer and durian lover

Mon, 09 Oct 2023 17:00:00 -0000

Peter and Alison Salleras both grew up on north Queensland cane farms but they took a different path for their own careers - a somewhat radical path, according to many of their contemporaries. Fruit Forest Farm grows dozens of types of tropical fruit - it’s not only the product range that’s different though, it’s also the unique trellised style of caring for trees which is more resistant to cyclone damage. We check in with Peter Salleras, farmer, trailblazer and durian lover.

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Ace Hodgkinson-Jones (Firebreak Farm) - Set sail for land

Tue, 26 Sep 2023 18:00:00 -0000

After a career in the Navy, Ace Hodgkinson-Jones returned home to take over the family farm. Firebreak Farm is situated in the foothills of the Bunya Mountains, where Ace and his family are raising quality pasture-fed lamb and beef, as well as free-range pork and poultry, using regenerative agricultural practices.

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Nathan Creary (Killer Condiments) - We produce flavour

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 21:46:22 -0000

“We produce flavour.” That’s a very nice mission statement from Killer Condiments’ Nathan Creary, a southern Sydney shopfitter turned farmer turned butcher turned condiment king. We dig in with Nathan and learn the story of the homestyle chimichurri that customers loved so much that he turned it into a jarred product, first as a side hustle and now as a growing business.

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Northern Tasmania Special Series Episode 5 - Matthew Young (Elphin Grove Farm) - the King of Celeriac

Mon, 04 Sep 2023 18:00:00 -0000

This is the fifth and final episode in a special series of The Producers. AgriCultured 2023 celebrates the farmers and produce of northern Tasmania. In five conversations, we get to know farmers caring for both land and community. Along the way we hear how strong local food systems and ethical farming not only foster delicious food. They also benefit farmers, eaters and the earth we all share.

Matthew Young owns Elphin Grove farm in northern Tasmania. With the climate consistent and the rainfall reliable, Matt has turned his undulating acres into an incredibly diverse business growing everything from pharmaceutical poppies, peas for processing and a mysterious ugly vegetable that was unknown to him before he started farming it himself. There are three generations of Youngs on this farm, whether they’re eight or 80, they all feel very tied to this patch of land in northern Tasmania.

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Northern Tasmania Special Series Episode 4 Geoff Anderson (Truffles of Tasmania) - a dreamy treechange?

Thu, 31 Aug 2023 02:00:00 -0000

This is the fourth episode in a special series of The Producers. Agricultured 2023 celebrates the farmers and produce of northern Tasmania. In five conversations, we celebrate farmers caring for both land and community. Along the way you’ll hear how strong local food systems and ethical farming not only foster delicious food. They also benefit farmers, eaters and the world we all share.

Geoff and Louisa Anderson moved from the Northern Territory to take on Truffles of Tasmania, the state's largest truffle farm. It was a romantic vision with family as a priority - the farm is blessed with rainfall, extremely pretty and trained truffle dogs came with the purchase. But farming is tough…has it been a dreamy treechange?

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Northern Tasmania Special Series Episode 3: Cynthea Semmens (Marion’s Vineyard) - the view in every bottle

Tue, 29 Aug 2023 18:00:00 -0000

This is the third episode in a special series of The Producers. Agricultured 2023 celebrates the farmers and produce of northern Tasmania. In five conversations, we celebrate farmers caring for both land and community. Along the way you’ll hear how strong local food systems and ethical farming do much more than create delicious food. They also benefit farmers, eaters and the earth we all share.

Marion’s Vineyard is a love story, an immigrant tale, a family legend and an example of what can happen when passion meets philosophy and an appreciation of soil, heritage and legacy. Cynthea Semmens is the second generation to be making wine at this special vineyard overlooking the Tamar River - Kanamaluka, 35km north of Launceston. Her approach: trying to get the view in every bottle.

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Northern Tasmania Special Series Episode 2: Paul Bennett (Ashgrove Cheese) - paddock to plate dairy delights

Mon, 28 Aug 2023 18:00:00 -0000

This is the second episode in a special series of The Producers. Agricultured 2023 celebrates the farmers and produce of northern Tasmania. In five conversations, we celebrate farmers caring for both land and community: a cattle farmer, cheesemaker, vegie growers and a winemaker. Along the way you’ll hear how strong local food systems and ethical farming do much more than create delicious food. They also benefit the farmers themselves, people who enjoy food at home and in restaurants and the earth that we all share.

Grass. Cow. You. That’s the approach at Ashgrove, where family-owned paddock to plate dairy delights are nurtured with full transparency and a sense of responsibility to land, animal and local Tasmanians.

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Northern Tasmania Special Series Episode 1: Pippa Mills (Glen Torrie Pastures) - sustainability and accountability

Mon, 21 Aug 2023 17:00:00 -0000

This is the first episode in a special series of The Producers. Agricultured 2023 celebrates the farmers and produce of northern Tasmania. These stories come from Kanamaluka - the Tamar River - in Lutruwita. In five conversations, we celebrate farmers caring for both land and community: a cattle farmer, cheesemaker, vegie growers and a winemaker. Along the way you’ll hear how strong local food systems and ethical farming do much more than create delicious food. They also benefit the farmers themselves, people eating at home and in restaurants, and the earth as a whole.

From good dirt comes good beef. That’s the motto at Glen Torrie Pastures, where Pippa Mills grows Black Angus beef for the local market. The farm is a deliberately small family enterprise run with sustainability and accountability - to the land, customers, the next generations, the world we share - at front of mind.

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Jaimi Pennell (Forgotten Sound Farm) - Piece of mind

Mon, 14 Aug 2023 18:00:00 -0000

After looking to find a genuine purpose and help deal with post-natal depression, Jaimi Pennell (Forgotten Sound Farm) began growing food at home. With her hands in the soil, it wasn’t long before she yearned to have her own farm to feed the wider community, and one day supply restaurants. She’s now four months into her dream and making a huge impact in the scenic rim.

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Judith Bennett (Belvedere Valley) - Grass is greener

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 00:08:04 -0000

Deep in the southern forests of Western Australia Judith Bennett and her husband Richard (Belvedere Valley) are raising Wagyu on a rotational grazing system. Grass pastures are paired with their own meadow hay to give their cows a happy healthy life completely raised on grass, and delivering a truly unique eating experience.

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Emelia Prendergast (The Saucy Australian) - Queen of Conserves

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 18:00:00 -0000

Emelia Prendergast is known as the Queen of Conserves. Under her The Saucy Australian brand she produces and sells a vast range of 54 condiments from the familiar - tomato sauce, apple sauce - to the quirky - one is called Sweet Serendipity, another is a Crustacean dressing. No matter what, they all have Emelia’s mysterious secret ingredient. I wonder if she’ll tell us what it is...

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Tim Wimborne (Braidwood Food Company) - Flour and water

Tue, 18 Jul 2023 08:12:43 -0000

After a career traversing the globe as a photojournalist, Tim Wimborne and his family moved to regional NSW and his new food journey began, first with native mountain pepper, and now with an incredible pasta and flat bread offering under the banner of Braidwood Food Company.

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Jake Wolki (Wolki Farm) - couldn’t love it more

Mon, 10 Jul 2023 18:01:00 -0000

Jake Wolki and his wife Ann run Wolki farm and butchery in Albury in New South Wales.

They started the farm in 2019 on a hobby block that his dad used for conventional cattle. Things changed very quickly, thanks to YouTube rabbitholes and a deepening commitment to doing things differently. The Wolkis farm according to five principles: animal welfare, environmental backbone, healing food, community and profit. It’s been a radical life shift for Jake from fast food and poor health to regenerative farming and vitality. He couldn’t love it more.

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Julie Martyn (Artisa) - Where’s the cheese?

Tue, 04 Jul 2023 01:21:21 -0000

After more than 20 years involvement in scientific research Julie Martyn (Artisa) moved to Tasmania and began looking for opportunities where she could indulge in her foodie interests. A mix of opportunity and science lead her to exploring plant-based cheese, especially those that might incorporate some of the amazing Tasmanian produce.

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Mark Foletta (Yin Barun Farm) - a focus on regeneration

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 18:00:00 -0000

Mark Foletta grew up on a farm near Benalla, a couple of hours from Melbourne, and ended up buying the farm next door. Yin Barun is a diverse business with everything from cherries to pumpkins, pine mushrooms, wine and livestock. Mark has a focus on regeneration, soil health and strong human connections, not just in his regional area but also with prominent city chefs who use and appreciate the food he grows and forages. Sustainability isn’t just about the environment, it’s about the people who tend and benefit from its bounty.

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Brian Johnson (Jammin’ Jerk) - A new Jam

Mon, 19 Jun 2023 18:00:00 -0000

After having an average experience eating Jamaican food at a festival Brian Johnson (Jammin’ Jerk) suddenly got an urge to try and do it better. He delved into the food of his heritage and soon discovered the complexities and challenges of dishing up food of a high standard. But after trial and error, he’s become one of the best producers of Jamaican Jerk spice rubs and hot sauces downunder.

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Charlie Scott (Redgate Farm Quail) - a remarkable bird

Mon, 12 Jun 2023 18:00:00 -0000

Fourth generation farmer Charlie Scott was always going to return to the land but it’s fair to say he didn’t dream about quail farming as a boy. A combination of luck, nous, trial, error and endless hard work led to him developing a successful business around his own breed of quail. As he comes towards the end of his farming journey, Charlie looks back on a business that’s driven him hard and brought him enormous satisfaction.

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Giorgio Linguanti (That’s Amore) - For the love

Tue, 06 Jun 2023 01:35:46 -0000

After arriving in Australia in 2004 Giorgio Linguanti (That’s Amore) wanted to create something different that not only fulfilled his creative side, but added to the evolving culinary landscape. He became a cheese maker for the love of creating almost an unlimited number of cheese products from just one simple ingredient, milk.

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Ben Circosta (Bippi) - infused with pride

Mon, 29 May 2023 18:00:00 -0000

Growing up in the Victorian produce hub of Mildura, Ben Circosta’s family pantry was always well-stocked with ‘bippi’. The Calabrian word for chilli is now the name of his brand of Italian chilli pastes, based on the recipe that his Nonna Emilia brought with her from Calabria. Ben’s pandemic project has turned into a thriving young business infused with pride, not just in Italian culinary traditions but also in migrant endeavour and enterprise.

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Henning Skallebaek (Aurum Poultry Co.) - Passion for poultry

Mon, 22 May 2023 18:00:00 -0000

Victorian-based Aurum poultry are specialists that focus on producing the finest chicken, cockerel, ducks and game birds for avid cooks who appreciate the flavours and textures of traditionally raised birds. And according to Henning Skallebaek they have become the go to poultry supplier for some of Australia’s most influential chefs too.

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Caley Callope (Black Duck Foods) - generosity and community

Mon, 15 May 2023 18:00:00 -0000

Caley Callope works with Black Duck Foods, an Indigenous produce enterprise that encompasses farming, learning, connection and culture on Yuin Country in East Gippsland, Victoria. Caley brings her whole self to her role: there’s her rich and proud Aboriginal heritage, the complexity in how she was raised in generosity and community, and an academic lens which also informs her intention and ambition.

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Kim Turner (The Paddock) - Grow and thrive

Mon, 08 May 2023 18:00:00 -0000

For the last 18 years, The Paddock in Leopold has offered people with a disability the chance to learn new skills, and thanks to The Paddock’s Kim Turner the fruits of their labour are now appearing on restaurant menus across the region.

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John Ford (Unearthed Mushrooms) - The Mushroom Guy

Mon, 01 May 2023 18:00:00 -0000

John Ford and his team at Unearthed Mushrooms grow gourmet culinary mushrooms in Victoria’s Yarra Valley, supplying restaurants and a few retailers in Melbourne, Sydney and Adelaide. John has loved mushrooms since he was a teenager and eventually turned his hobby into a business. It’s been far from easy but he’s as curious and passionate about fungi as he ever was and is very happy to wear the mantle of ‘The Mushroom Guy’.

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Georgina Baker (Bello Beef) - Bringing back local food systems

Mon, 24 Apr 2023 18:00:00 -0000

Levenvale Farm is a place that nourishes the soil, the plants, the animals and where farmer Georgina Baker (Bello Beef) and her husband Sam are rearing the amazing cattle to produce grass fed Bello Beef. A farm that helps build community and bring back localised food systems.

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Cathy Palmer (How Now Dairy) - from music to milk

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 18:00:00 -0000

Cathy Palmer is just about getting used to the idea that she’s a dairy farmer. After a career in music management she followed a passion for animal welfare into ethical milk production. On her northern Victorian dairy farm, calves aren’t ripped away from their mums soon after birth. Instead, cows and calves stay together through to weaning. Cathy ensures a calm, happy life for her own cows, and she gets rave reviews for her milk, but How Now is also a showpiece, proving that dairy can be done differently, with kindness as a driving principle.

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Andrew Yeo (Yeo Farm) - For the locals

Mon, 10 Apr 2023 18:00:00 -0000

Andrew Yeo (Yeo Farm) runs a small lamb operation on 100 acres in Bulahdelah on the Mid North Coast of NSW. It’s a small farm dedicated to the locals where Andrew runs 160 Australian White Sheep to bring fresh pasture raised lamb to the area.

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Gerardo Lopez (La Tortilleria) - pride, commitment and the joys of maize

Mon, 03 Apr 2023 18:00:00 -0000

In 2012, the Australian culinary landscape was experiencing a Mexican food wave. But there were a few things missing. Mexican-born Gerardo Lopez especially lamented the lack of traditional corn tortillas. He got busy researching, testing, and eventually making tortillas from locally grown grain. The vision has since expanded from a small-scale side hustle to La Tortilleria, a factory that processes hundreds of tonnes of corn annually, sends tortillas all around Australia and exports them to Asia too. It’s a company built on pride, commitment and the joys of maize.

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Jenn Nestor (Coolamon Cheese Company) - The cool hand

Mon, 27 Mar 2023 17:00:00 -0000

Coolamon Cheese Company is located in the heart of the Riverina, an area renowned for its abundance of high-quality produce, especially dairy products. It’s here that cheese maker Jenn Nestor creates an innovative range of handcrafted cheeses that are a sensual delight.

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Cecilia 'CC' Diaz-Petersen (CC's Kitchen) - sustainability, community and legacy

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:00:00 -0000

Cecilia 'CC' Diaz-Petersen grows one of Australia’s only commercial crops of wild hibiscus - also known as rosella - alongside an eclectic mix of Asian and Mexican vegetables and exotic fruits on her family’s 50-acre farm at Woolooga, three hours north of Brisbane. Born in the Philippines, CC was a real estate agent when she was swept up by the world of food. Obsessed with sustainability, community and legacy, CC is a grower and maker, passionate about connecting consumers with the land.

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Donato Toce (Gelato Messina) - Cow to cone

Mon, 13 Mar 2023 17:00:00 -0000

It’s become one of the most celebrated gelato brands in the country, but Gelato Messina has stayed true to its roots, ethics and offering to ensure the quality of its product. And as Donato Toce explains it has a cow to cone approach too.

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Liam Spurrell (Spurrell Foraging) - a tangible connection to nature.

Mon, 06 Mar 2023 17:00:00 -0000

Lots of chefs talk about foraging these days but what about someone who makes foraging their business? Liam Spurrell grew up in the hills on Melbourne’s outskirts where he now forages consistently and carefully, picking hundreds of herbs, fruits and plants and delivering them to top restaurants. Up at dawn, he's able to gather in the morning and have ingredients on Melbourne restaurant tables in time for lunch. It’s about flavour, creativity, a narrative and - more than anything - a tangible connection to nature.

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Kosta Papanikitas (The Fermentalists) - Some like it hot

Mon, 27 Feb 2023 17:00:00 -0000

The Fermentalists and its range of hot sauces was initially a weekend hobby but positive feedback from friends and family encouraged Kosta Papanikitas and his partners to continue developing new recipes and expanding the range. The team still make everything by hand in Sydney, but things are a little bit bigger than they envisaged.

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Sophie O’Neil (Torello Farm) - creating connections

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 17:00:00 -0000

Sophie O’Neil is an owner of Torello Farm, a mixed business and farm gate on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. Founded in 2016, Torello sells Sophie’s own beef and lamb as well as curating produce from around 70 other local growers. It’s a bountiful business that creates connection and brings nourishment and joy as well as offering an ethical model for contemporary food systems.

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Krsna Rajalingam (Basik Chocolates) - For the love of chocolate

Mon, 13 Feb 2023 18:27:57 -0000

Basik Chocolates was founded by Krsna Rajalingam with a simple belief: That every chocoholic deserves a perfect bonbon that speaks to them. After painstaking research, and trial and error he’s creating some of the most stunning chocolates in Australia – and they’re delicious too.

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Rikki Goldman (Tahini Neri) - from small beginnings

Mon, 06 Feb 2023 16:00:00 -0000

Founded in Melbourne in 2016, the Tahini Neri vision is tahini schmeared on just about everything. From small beginnings selling homemade tahini on the pavement, Rikki Goldman and her husband Neri’s products are now stocked in major supermarkets in Australia and even overseas. The early impetus was to take tahini from a niche dip to an everyday staple. Along the way, they’ve expanded the range to a bestselling hummus and become somewhat accustomed to the highs and lows of running a family business.

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Rebecca Barnes (Playing With Fire Native Foods) - playing with fire

Mon, 30 Jan 2023 17:00:00 -0000

After moving to Bundjalung country - Byron Bay Rebecca Barnes started to explore Native Ingredients. Twenty years later and Playing with Fire Native Foods is not only showcasing the culinary possibilities of native foods, but is helping create career pathways for first nations people too.

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Gamila MacRury (Gamila at Beechworth) - connected to the land

Mon, 23 Jan 2023 22:17:54 -0000

How would you go farming for a year to end up with 200 grams of product? That’s life - in a good year! - for saffron farmer Gamila MacRury. As well as saffron, Gamila grows olives in Victoria’s High Country. She’s always been connected to the land - and especially this part of north-eastern Victoria - but Gamila trained as an engineer and worked in Melbourne before buying a 12-acre block. She’s steadily built an agribusiness around her two boutique crops and has found that the problem solving aspects of engineering have been a boon in her new life as a farmer.

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Greg Cromwell (Cromwell Farms) - Family first

Mon, 16 Jan 2023 19:23:59 -0000

With farming roots that go back many generations Greg Cromwell (Cromwell Farms) is carrying on the tradition in the Byron Bay Hinterland with wife and daughters where they are using regenerative practises to pasture-raise rare heritage breeds of animals.

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Rowan Little (Montague Plums) - delighting consumers with wonderful flavour

Mon, 09 Jan 2023 17:00:00 -0000

Rowan Little is the Chief Innovation Officer at Montague, a family-owned fruit growing company headquartered in Victoria and now into its third generation. Montague started with an apple orchard in the 1950s and has more recently expanded into stone fruit. Today, the company tends five million trees spread across south-eastern Australia with the focus squarely on delighting consumers with wonderful flavour.

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Justin Hartley (Duck Foot Farm) - A big change

Mon, 02 Jan 2023 17:00:00 -0000

Duck Foot Farm owned by Justin Hartley is the ultimate example of small-scale farming that relies on land share arrangements between young farmers and landowners. It proves that small scale farming has a big role to play in the future food system and ultimately, the health of people too.

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Lisa Valmormida (Pidapipo Gelato, Melbourne) - scooping smiles day after day.

Mon, 19 Dec 2022 17:00:00 -0000

Is there anything better than gelato? Lisa Valmormida and her brother Jamie come from an entrepreneurial food-loving Italian family, so when Lisa identified a gap in the Australian market for high quality gelato, it set them on the pathway to Pidapipo. Ten years later, there are three popular Melbourne stores and a new Laboratorio making small batch and bespoke flavours. Pidapipo is one of the city’s leading artisanal gelato businesses, scooping smiles day after day.

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Karen Kelly (Pud For All Seasons) - Good bit of pud

Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:00:00 -0000

It might be hot downunder, but Christmas pudding is still a key feature for so many when the festive season arrives. There are few better than Pud For All Seasons, owned by Karen Kelly who started it all with her grandmother’s secret recipe 22 years ago.

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Lucy Mackenzie (U Goose) - geese freak

Mon, 05 Dec 2022 17:00:00 -0000

Lucy Mackenzie and her husband Herb were running a drought-affected cattle farm with cashflow issues when they decided to branch out into free-range geese. It’s been hard. It’s been huge. They moved the whole operation from northern New South Wales to southern Victoria on the eve of the pandemic, reestablishing both farm and family. Along the way U Goose has pleased discerning poultry purveyors, won the hearts of some of Australia’s top chefs and turned Lucy Mackenzie into a huge geese freak.

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Xavier Prime (Chooks At The Rooke) - A new lease on life

Mon, 28 Nov 2022 17:00:00 -0000

Chooks At The Rooke is owned by Xavier Prime and Kimberley Burridge. Along with a small team, they produce Premium Pastured Eggs centred around Animal Welfare and Sustainable Farming Practises. But even more interestingly, they’re started rearing Cockerels that would not have otherwise had the full rich lives they’re now experiencing.

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Yarrie Bangura (Aunty’s Ginger Tonic) - showcasing remembered joys

Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:00:00 -0000

Yarrie Bangura is the founder and owner of Aunty’s Ginger Tonic. Her delicious beverage is a vehicle for her entrepreneurial ambitions and a tribute to something she grew up making and enjoying as a child in Sierra Leone. After the good times turned to hard times, Yarrie ended up coming to Australia as a 12-year-old refugee. She sees her business as a way of showcasing remembered joys of her birthplace and contributing to the country she now calls home.

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Katerina Lazareva (Byron Fermentery) - for the future

Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:00:00 -0000

Byron Fermentary is the creation of Katerina Lazareva, a trained Chef living, farming and making in Byron Bay, Australia. Byron Fermentary is the manifestation of her experience and ancestral traditions in a range of unique fermented products made from seasonal organic produce.

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Matt Palise (Kensington Pride Mangoes) - fruity business

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 17:00:00 -0000

It’s hard to get your head around picking and packing half a million dollars worth of produce in a single day. But for the six weeks that Kensington Pride mangoes are in season, that’s exactly what happens on Matt Palise’s farm in the Northern Territory. Red Rich Fruits is a family farming business, with Matt part of the third generation. The family started in Victoria’s Yarra Valley but now farms much further afield, working through apples, pears, stone fruit, mandarins, mangoes and citrus to ensure a year-round fruity business.

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Giovanni Pilu (Pilu Bottarga di Muggine) - Hand and heart

Mon, 31 Oct 2022 17:00:00 -0000

He may be renowned as one of Australia’s best chefs, but Giovanni Pilu (Pilu Bottarga di Muggine) is making a name for himself by producing Bottarga – a key ingredient of the food from his homeland Sardinia. The story of how it all started, is quite extraordinary.

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Ian Fullerton (Pineapple Farmer) - grown with integrity and pride

Mon, 24 Oct 2022 17:00:00 -0000

Ian Fullerton is a second generation pineapple farmer on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. Growing 1900 tonnes of pineapples a year is more than a business, it’s almost a calling. Unflappable and stoic, Ian has opinions on employment policy, farming tech and the economics of agriculture. But in the end, there’s one thing that makes it all worth it: juicy fresh pineapples grown with integrity and pride.

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Simon Schulz (Schulz Organic Dairy) - grass to glass

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 17:00:00 -0000

Simon Schulz runs Schulz Organic Dairy, a family company with 50 years of history across three generations. Based in pretty Timboon west of Melbourne, Simon produces organic milk, yoghurt, cream and quark from a single herd of Friesian and Jersey cows. Focused on the impact he can have by putting climate positive operations at the heart of his ambitions, every creamy caffe latte, every dollop of yoghurt on a bowl of muesli is a vote of confidence in Simon Schulz’s small batch, grass-to-grass pathway.

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John Gunn (Cooroibah Greens) - Change of the better

Mon, 10 Oct 2022 17:00:00 -0000

After making a great connection with a local hydroponic farmer, former sparky John Gunn fostered a real interest in this intensive kind of farming. When the opportunity came to take over the farm at Cooroibah Greens, he jumped in with both feet.

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Launceston: Michael Townsend and Fergus Brown (Mr Brown and Towns Mushrooms) - a business and lifestyle

Thu, 15 Sep 2022 19:05:00 -0000

This the seventh and final episode of The Producers in Launceston, a special podcast series celebrating the food, wine and people of this very special part of Tasmania.

Mr Brown and Towns is an urban mushroom farm in the city of Launceston. Best mates Michael Townsend and Fergus Brown grow exotic mushrooms in an old abattoir that’s been given new life as a hub for small businesses and startups. Mushrooms are a business but growing them also offers a lifestyle: Michael and Fergus want work to be enjoyable and to gel with the lives they’re aiming to craft.

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Launceston: Anthony Ashe (Rosella Roost) - more than just producing tasty eggs

Wed, 14 Sep 2022 18:00:00 -0000

This the sixth episode of The Producers in Launceston, a special podcast series celebrating the food, wine and people of this very special part of Tasmania.

Anthony Ashe and his wife Paula run pastured chickens for their eggs at Rosella Roost in Rosevale, 25km west of Launceston. New to farming, they’ve plunged in, using their expertise in other areas of science and agriculture to get things rolling, with as much attention to regenerating the soil and giving their chickens a good life as to producing tasty eggs.

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Launceston: Ian White (Clover Hill) - a sparkling region

Tue, 13 Sep 2022 18:00:00 -0000

This the fifth episode of The Producers in Launceston, a special podcast series celebrating the food, wine and people of this special part of Tasmania.

Ian White is the cellar door manager at Clover Hill, a sparkling wine producer 50km northeast of Launceston in the Pipers River wine region. He talks about dismantling the elitism of the Champagne world with sparklingly inclusive experiences and explains why Tasmania is such a great place to do it.

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Launceston: Liz Mahnken (Summerlea Farm) - nurturing the land

Mon, 12 Sep 2022 19:59:00 -0000

This is the fourth episode of The Producers in Launceston, a special series celebrating the producers and people of northern Tasmania, in partnership with AgriCULTURED.

Liz and Rick Mahnken grow Angus beef on Summerlea Farm in north Lilydale, 35km north of Launceston. Their children are the 7th generation of Mahnkens on this farm. After a tragic start to their working life here, Liz and Rick are farming with purpose: it’s small scale with a focus on animal welfare and meat quality, and a keen eye on nurturing the land.

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Launceston: Simon Dornauf (Hillwood Berries) - spreading joy

Wed, 07 Sep 2022 18:00:00 -0000

We continue our special series The Producers in Launceston. Hillwood Berries is a family-run berry farm 25km north of Launceston in the heart of the Tamar Valley. Launched in 2010 off the back of three generations of farming experience in the region, this hilly farm has grown from a two-hectare strawberry patch to more than 40 hectares of strawberries, raspberries, blackberries and blueberries. Simon Dornauf works with his family to grow berries and also to nurture the 60 staff - many of them overseas workers - that make the Hillwood project possible.

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Launceston: Massimo Mele (Grains of Silo) - nurture, highlight and champion

Tue, 06 Sep 2022 18:00:00 -0000

For the second episode of The Producers in Launceston, we chat to Massimo Mele, a local chef and restaurateur who has made it a mission to nurture, highlight and champion local farmers and the produce they grow, make and coax into being. We talk about his transformation from a chef who ticked items off an order sheet for next-day delivery to a collaborator who plans menus months in advance alongside farmers.

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Launceston: Kim and Daniel Croker (Fork It Farm) - forking good pork

Mon, 05 Sep 2022 18:00:00 -0000

The Producers in Launceston is a special series celebrating the farmers and produce of northern Tasmania.

Our first episode is with pig farmers Kim and Daniel Croker, who live and work on idyllic Fork It Farm in northern Tasmania. Their rare-breed Berkshire porkers forage, socialise and wallow their way around a small, pretty farm half an hour from Launceston. Their pork is incredibly tasty, rich and satisfying, with a golden crisp crackling. Kim and Daniel share the story behind this paragon of porchetta.

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Dan Reid (Mimosa Valley Lamb) - The Lamb man and his ute

Mon, 29 Aug 2022 18:00:00 -0000

The Reids, have been farming in Mimosa for over one hundred years. Six generations of sheep farmers that have perfected sustainable and low stress methods of farming. Lamb man Dan Reid (Mimosa Valley Lamb) and his family, farm in the heart of the Riverina in Southern NSW and supply Sydney with some of the best quality lamb in the country.

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Zane McMillan (Uncle Charlie's Tastes of Country) - storytelling, connection and understanding

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 18:00:00 -0000

Wiradjuri man Zane McMillan is the co-CEO of Uncle Charlie's Tastes of Country, an Aboriginal-owned family company that makes popcorn seasoned with Indigenous flavours. Uncle Charlie's is a new company but it’s anchored in more than 60,000 years of Aboriginal connection to the land and has broad ambitions beyond offering a tasty commercial snack. It’s as much about storytelling, connection and understanding throughout Australia, and employment in rural New South Wales, as it is about balance sheets. Find Uncle Charlie's at Fine Food Australia in Melbourne September 5-8.

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Esme Atkinson (Shima Wasabi) - The real deal

Mon, 15 Aug 2022 18:00:00 -0000

Shima Wasabi is in northern Tasmania, and shares its latitude with southern Japan. Tasmania’s cool climate is the ideal year-round environment in which to grow this rare plant to create genuine wasabi products and for Esme Atkinson, working with this amazing plant has changed her life.

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Reuben Mardan (Sample Coffee) - an enriching industry

Mon, 08 Aug 2022 18:11:00 -0000

Reuben Mardan is the founder and owner of Sample Coffee, a cafe, roastery, retailer and wholesaler in Sydney. Reuben first worked in coffee as a side job but his engagement grew as the specialty coffee scene burgeoned and the first Sample outlet opened in 2011. After a decade in the business, Reuben still finds the industry enriching, especially because it allows him to connect with people at the source of production right through to those who drink it.

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Cam Birt, (Fabbrica Pasta) - Power of pasta

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 18:00:00 -0000

When the pandemic landed, it forced most in the food industry to re-think offering. With a handful of successful restaurants, the likes of Dear Saint Eloise, Love Tilly Devine and Ragazzi a young dynamic group began making fresh pasta to heat and serve at home. Cam Birt, a professional in the realms of artisan, bespoke food products saw an opportunity, not just as a stop gap, but to create a whole new brand and business, Fabbrica, and it has become one of the best quality retail heat and serve pasta offerings in the country.

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Catherine Velisha (Velisha Farms) - nourishing in every way

Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:00:00 -0000

Third-generation farmer Catherine Velisha is the managing director of Velisha Farms, based in Werribee South on the outskirts of Melbourne. She’s also the founder of VegEducation, a training organisation that promotes the diverse opportunities in farm work, as well as extolling the virtues of veg to the broader community. The way she sees it, horticulture is nourishing in every way: a great business that’s good for the people who work in it and those who consume its products. In fact, according to Catherine, vegetables are going to save the planet.

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Joel Mevissen (Westmont Pickles) - in a pickle

Mon, 18 Jul 2022 18:00:00 -0000

After living in New York and embracing the deli culture Joel Mevissen (Westmont Pickles) saw an opportunity for quality Australian pickled cucumbers. Over a couple of beers in the backyard with good mate and chef Calvin Lidden they began working with a local farm network to develop and foster a local market for pickling cucumbers.

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Tony Poyner (Nerada Tea) - steeped in tea culture

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 18:00:00 -0000

Other than water, tea is the most popular beverage in the world. We drink our share of tea in Australia but we are far from a major grower. Given that, it’s a surprise to learn that Nerada Tea in Queensland grows enough tea to make 750 million cuppas every year. Managing director Tony Poyner fell into the industry but working at Nerada soon swept him up and he became happily steeped in tea culture.

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https://www.mistycreekagroforestry.com.au

Tom Bjorksten (Misty Creek Agroforestry) - Let nature do its thing

Tue, 05 Jul 2022 03:15:00 -0000

Having grown up on a farm, Tom Bjorksten (Misty Creek Agroforestry) witnessed the challenges of working the land and set his sites on a career in Sydney. But, after studying and landing a government job he had a yearning to be back on the land. Together with his wife Nicole, they headed to Northern New south Wales where they now run a Syntropic agroforestry farm.

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Ed Nolle (Dollar Bill Brewing) - crafted with love, care and passion

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 18:00:00 -0000

Ed Nolle brews sour beer at Dollar Bill Brewing in the Australian beer capital of Ballarat. In 1870, as Australia’s gold rush tailed off, Ballarat had more than 500 pubs - panning for gold is clearly extremely thirsty work! The gold is mostly gone but Ballarat is still a beer centre, with a culture of brewing nurtured by local Federation University which offers courses in malting and brewing. Ed and wife Fiona are the people behind Dollar Bill Brewing - it’s craft beer by name and it’s also crafted with love, care and passion.

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Brent Old (Coole Acres Organic Lamb) - Lamb and a glass of red

Tue, 21 Jun 2022 18:00:00 -0000

After years of having a few lamb on the vineyard to eat the weeds amongst the vines on their property, Brent Old (Coole Acres Organic Lamb) realised an opportunity. He set about finding the right breed of lamb, and the means needed to farm organic Dorper lamb that now not only services the local food-loving community but has caught the attention of chefs and butchers in Sydney too.

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https://trufflemelbourne.com

Nigel Wood (Truffle Melbourne) - flavour and romance

Mon, 13 Jun 2022 18:00:00 -0000

Nigel Wood grows truffles at Truffle Paddock, a small farm outside Melbourne where 600 trees coax

Tuber melanosporum into existence. He also sources truffles to make products including truffle honey and truffle salt, and is the founder of the Truffle Melbourne festival. When Nigel bought his farm, he thought he might grow grapes for wine but the aroma, flavour and romance of truffles hooked him in and he became a pioneer in an Australian industry that’s grown exponentially in the past 20 years.

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https://thefoodfarm.com.au

Tim Eyes (The Food Farm) - For the region

Mon, 06 Jun 2022 18:00:00 -0000

Looking to find a better way to do things, Tim Eyes (The Food Farm) and his wife Hannah started to look at the world of farming differently. They devised a plan to lease a series of properties to move cattle and chickens around constantly to ensure a regenerative farming method and a real connection with the community in the region too.

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Anne Coote (Cattle Farmer) - a necessary rethink

Mon, 30 May 2022 18:00:00 -0000

Anne Coote runs a small cattle station near Moree in northern New South Wales. The way she sees it, she’s farming soil and dung beetles as much as she’s farming cattle. Focusing on the soil and the carbon cycle that supports it is a necessary rethink, an essential mindset for our farming - and eating - future.

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https://www.bluedogfarm.com.au

Jacki Hinchey (Blue Dog Farm) - To the salad bar

Mon, 23 May 2022 18:00:00 -0000

After growing up on a sheep and cattle property Jacki Hinchey (Blue Dog Farm) headed to the city to build a career. But the strong connection to the land drew her back and now she supplies salad leaves to the community and some of Queensland’s best chefs too.

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Nick Holliday (Belvedere Farm) - shaking up the system

Mon, 16 May 2022 18:00:00 -0000

Nick Holliday runs Belvedere Farm on Jinibara country in the Sunshine Coast hinterland in Queensland. Nick was a lawyer and union organiser before buying a property he originally thought would be a fun weekender...but then he got more serious. Working alongside his wife Brydie, their approach goes beyond regenerative farming to agro-ecological principles with building community at its heart. It’s about beef, pork and eggs, but it’s also about land care, engagement with Indigenous owners and shaking up the system.

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https://www.longviewgarlic.com.au

The Producers: Lee Towle (Longview Garlic) - A new perspective

Mon, 09 May 2022 18:00:00 -0000

After a long career in the city Lee Towle (Longview Garlic) had a yearning for an off-grid lifestyle. Lee and her husband set the GPS for the Southern Tablelands and not only built a sustainable off gird farm, but now produce some of the best garlic in the country too.

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Georgie Rogers (Rogers Farm, Barossa) - provenance and flavour

Mon, 02 May 2022 18:00:00 -0000

Georgie Rogers raises White Suffolk sheep on the edge of the Barossa Valley in South Australia. As a solo newbie hogget farmer, the four-year journey has been challenging but rewarding despite - and even because - she occasionally has her arm up to the elbow inside a pregnant ewe.

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https://lowanparkproduce.com.au

Lucy Dodd (Lowan Park Produce) - Back to the farm

Mon, 25 Apr 2022 18:00:00 -0000

After a career in environmental management and finding more sustainable farming practises fourth generation farmer Lucy Dodd (Lowan Park Produce) returned to the farm in the Dodd family since the late 1920’s. Her passion to create and sustain regional communities through sustainable agriculture has seen her taking on the challenge of farming pasture-raised chickens with outstanding results.

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https://cuveechocolate.com.au

Deniz Karaca (Cuvee Chocolate) - the world of chocolate

Mon, 18 Apr 2022 18:00:00 -0000

Pastry chef, chocolatier and chocolate maker Deniz Karaca is so embedded in the world of chocolate that he sees it as part of him: it’s his identity and passion, it’s who he is. But chocolate has also pushed Deniz to question, explore and change, as he’s transitioned from creative patissier to craft producer. Cuvee Chocolate, his bean-to-bar operation on the outskirts of Melbourne, has ethics at its foundation and unique flavour and texture as its goal.

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Stan Robert (Fat Carrot Farm) - Dangle a carrot

Mon, 11 Apr 2022 18:01:00 -0000

Inspired by the farmers’ markets while working as scientists in the US, Stan Robert (Fat Carrot Farm, Tasmania) started forming a greater connection to the food that fuelled their bodies. It led to a yearning to grow their own, and now they have an organic vegetable farm that supplies some of Hobart’s best restaurants.

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Sallie Jones (Gippsland Jersey) - kindness foremost in mind

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 18:00:00 -0000

After growing up - and running wild - on a dairy farm, Sallie Jones founded Gippsland Jersey in 2016. She ensures farmers are paid a fair price for milk, promotes mental health and wellbeing in rural communities and approaches every business situation with kindness foremost in mind. It's been a complex and challenging journey fortified by community at every step of the way.

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https://www.bendigobrittle.com.au

Greta Donaldson (Bendigo Brittle) - finding balance and bringing joy

Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:00:00 -0000

Greta Donaldson eased her way into confectionery as an escape and alternative from her stressful work in public relations. Slowly and surely, her passion has turned into a thriving sweet treat business that’s allowed her to make deep connections with her regional community, find balance and bring joy to brittle lovers all around Australia.

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https://www.wormticklers.com

Jordan Sly (Wormticklers) - As the worm turns

Mon, 14 Mar 2022 17:00:00 -0000

After building a career in the hospitality sector, Jordan Sly (Wormticklers) had a yearning for a greater connection to produce. He set himself a mission to grow the best quality organic seedlings and he’s now become one of the most important parts in the organic food chain on the east coast of Australia.

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https://spudsisters.com.au

Kerri Farrell (Spud Sisters) - Spud specialists

Mon, 28 Feb 2022 17:00:00 -0000

Victorian producer Kerri Farrell and her spud sister Catherine farm potatoes, source potatoes and sell potatoes to fine dining restaurants, farmers’ markets and online. Third generation farmers and providores, Kerri loves being a spud specialist, enjoys the opportunities for connection and education and truly believes you can never be too enthusiastic about potatoes.

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https://www.margralamb.com

Tim Leahy (Margra Lamb) - Making your Margra

Mon, 21 Feb 2022 17:00:00 -0000

Inspired by native haired sheep seen on their travels to South America, the Gilmore Brothers set out to breed a fully haired meat sheep intended for Australian conditions. Through years of careful breeding using the latest technology and techniques, they succeeded in their venture, developing a unique breed of lamb, certified as the Australian White, and as Tim Leahy (Margra Lamb) explains, some of Australia’s best chefs are taking note.

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Sharan West Rivett (Pepo Farms) - health benefits and culinary potential

Mon, 14 Feb 2022 17:00:00 -0000

If you eat Australian-grown pumpkin seeds, you can be sure they’re from Pepo Farms, a unique farming and production business based in northern Victoria. For owner Sharan West Rivett, Pepo’s mission isn’t just growing and selling a product, but also advocating for its health benefits and culinary potential, and enriching the land which makes it all possible.

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https://www.achacha.com.au

Helen Hill (Achacha) - Tropical treasures

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 17:00:00 -0000

The Achacha has been domestically cultivated for centuries in the tropical lowlands of the Amazon Basin. But after being introduced to the tropical fruit by a friend, Helen Hill and her husband Bruce (Achacha) set about creating the world’s first commercial plantation in Far North Queensland– and the world is taking note.

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https://www.tuerongfarm.com.au

Jason Cotter (Tuerong Farm, Mornington Peninsula) - a different path

Mon, 31 Jan 2022 17:00:00 -0000

Jason Cotter grows heritage wheat and mills it into flour at Tuerong Farm on the Mornington Peninsula. The Peninsula, an hour from Melbourne, is better known as a wine region but Jason's interest in local grain economies and his fascination with the fundamental place of wheat in the human story has taken him down a different path.

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Tom Eadie (Berkelo) - rise as one

Mon, 24 Jan 2022 17:00:00 -0000

With a goal to create delicious food from sustainable produce, Tom Eadie (Berkelo) not only built one of the best sourdough bakeries in the country but actively supported healthier local communities in the process.

https://berkelo.com.au

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Ian Henderson (Lirah Australian Vinegar) - values of vinegar

Mon, 17 Jan 2022 17:00:00 -0000

What makes someone go into vinegar production? And what keeps them in love with their business every single day? We talk to Ian Henderson, owner of Australian Vinegar and the artisan Lirah brand. Ian shares his extraordinary foundation story, the values that power his business and the reasons we should all be using and enjoying more vinegar.

https://lirah.com.au

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https://www.neighbourhoodfarm.com.au

Matt Bakker and Micah Oberon (Neighbourhood Farm, Brisbane) - capturing hearts

Mon, 10 Jan 2022 17:00:00 -0000

Looking for a greater connection to the local community, Matt Bakker and Micah Oberon joined forces to create Neighbourhood Farm - a small-scale bio-intensive market garden based in Oxley, Brisbane. Using the best organic and regenerative farming practices they’ve not only captured the hearts of the neighbourhood, but the attention of some of Brisbane’s best chefs too.

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Jemal Murat (Jack Murat Coffee) - a lifetime commitment

Mon, 03 Jan 2022 17:00:00 -0000

Jemal Murat founded Australian coffee company Jack Murat with his brothers and father. The Murats grow coffee beans in north Queensland on land previously used for tobacco and vegetables. With coffee, they’ve found a project promising enough to engage the whole family in a lifetime commitment - to the farm, the crop and a unique high quality product that will hopefully be enjoyed in cafes around the world.

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https://www.gingerbreadfolk.com.au

Karen Sharman (Gingerbread Folk) - Building the gingerbread house

Mon, 20 Dec 2021 17:00:00 -0000

Two decades ago Karen Sharman (Gingerbread Folk) left behind a corporate lifestyle to experience the beauty of the Australian outback. With freedom to visualise new directions, a small baking business was born inspired by her obsession with gingerbread and a yearning to have deeper meaning in everything she does.

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The Deep in the Weeds Network Christmas Special - Deep in the mistletoe

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 20:58:00 -0000

A fish fiend, wine nerd, journo activist and Santa look-a-like walk into Rockpool Bar & Grill…. And just like that we have a Christmas special where the hosts - John Susman, Shanteh Wale, Dani Valent & Anthony Huckstep (plus executive producer Rob Locke) - of all the shows on the Deep in the Weeds food podcast network are finally in the same room at the same time. Strap in for all the views on the year that was, the year to come and a few festive yarns too.

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https://cherryhill.com.au

Stephen Riseborough (CherryHill Orchards) - cherish the cherry.

Mon, 13 Dec 2021 17:00:00 -0000

You know the Australian summer has arrived when cherries turn up in the markets. Third generation cherry farmer Stephen Riseborough is director of his family’s CherryHill Orchards. A spread of central and northern Victorian farms allow the Riseboroughs to produce cherries through the late spring and summer harvesting season. What are the rhythms of the seasons, the challenges of growing a temperamental crop in variable weather conditions and the satisfactions of producing a fruit that people anticipate with excitement and eat with passion and a fond sense of tradition?

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https://www.bodalladairy.com.au

Sandra McCuaig (Bodalla Dairy) - From cow to ice cream

Mon, 06 Dec 2021 17:00:00 -0000

Coming from a 6th generation farming family and after a career as a journalist Sandra McCuaig (Bodalla Dairy) yearned to be on the land again. She found wonderment in the small town of Bodalla, a town once famous for its cheese, and set about celebrating of the region by producing award-winning cheese and ice cream.

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https://www.otwaypasta.com.au

Steve Robinson (Otway Pasta) - premium pasta

Mon, 29 Nov 2021 17:00:00 -0000

Steve Robinson grew up on a farm but he didn't realise exactly how much made-from-scratch ethics influenced him until he was a stay-at-home dad making pasta for his young family. Steve's kitchen bench hobby slowly morphed into one of Australia's most prominent premium pasta companies. Otway Pasta has a focus on quality ingredients, traditional methods and looking after the people that work there.

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Claire Longbottom (Freshwater Turkeys) - Turkey takeover

Mon, 22 Nov 2021 17:00:00 -0000

In Australia turkey often plays second fiddle to chickens, but things are changing. An idea to have a few turkeys on the farm led Claire Longbottom (Freshwater Turkeys, SA) down a path to breed and pasture-raise rare heritage turkeys in the Clare Valley, South Australia. These incredible birds grow slowly and are free to roam outside and embrace an active lifestyle, and the proof lies in some of the most sort after turkey in the country.

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https://www.prettyproduce.com.au

Simone Jelley (Pretty Produce) - an endless journey of discovery

Mon, 15 Nov 2021 17:00:00 -0000

What if you farmed as much for beauty, joy and creativity as sustenance? Simone Jelley runs Pretty Produce, an edible flower grower in Queensland, supplying chefs and restaurants, and making value-added products that she offers direct to consumer. It's an endless journey of discovery, working with plants that aren't always appreciated for their edibility, that are strictly seasonal and extremely perishable.

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https://block11organics.com.au

Greg Kocanda (Block 11 Organics) - The way it is

Mon, 08 Nov 2021 17:00:00 -0000

For three generations Greg Kocanda’s (Block 11 Organics) family have had their hands in the soil producing organic fruit and vegetables on farms in New South Wales Central West and The Hawksbury. Organics isn’t a marketing catch cry for the Kocanda’s, for 80-odd years it’s simply the only way they have ever farmed.

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https://honesteggsco.com.au

Paul Righetti (Honest Eggs) - doing things differently

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 17:00:00 -0000

Paul Righetti is a founder and owner of Honest Eggs, a central Victorian regenerative farm where they take pride in doing things differently. Paul grazes cattle, sheep and chickens, moving them through pastures in a nurturing cycle that works well for the produce and the land. Honest Eggs goes way beyond "free range" in terms of animal welfare, environmental impact and - crucially - flavour, and he reckons farming like this is good for the soul.

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Nicole Gilliver Nicole Gilliver (Grandvewe Cheese, Tasmania) - For the love of cheese

Mon, 25 Oct 2021 17:00:00 -0000

Great cheese takes time, takes patience and takes a lot of care. For Nicole Gilliver (Grandvewe) it all starts with a great life for the sheep. Everything Nicole and her family do is founded on respect for their sheep, respect for the environment and a love of exceptional cheese.

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Ben Blackmore (Blackmore Wagyu) - an unending commitment to quality

Mon, 18 Oct 2021 17:00:00 -0000

Ben Blackmore is a sixth generation farmer and the custodian of Blackmore Wagyu, launched by his father David more than 30 years ago. Their wagyu is one of the most respected and adored meat products in the world, a testament to genetics, breeding, feed, animal care and an unending commitment to quality. But what's it like to run a family farm in an arena that's stocked with corporates and in a world that's facing climate change?

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https://www.argyleaustraliansaffron.com.au

Angela Argyle (Argyle Australian Saffron) - By the gram

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 17:01:00 -0000

For farmer Angela Argyle (Argyle Australian Saffron), location was vital for the success of their foray into saffron. The regional New South Wales town Orange is perfect for Saffron, which demands four distinct seasons to thrive. In just five years Angela and Brendan are not only producing some of the best saffron in the world, but are living proof that belief, grit and determination fosters the most fruitful outcomes.

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https://www.ebbrewing.com.au

Doug Brooke (East Bendigo Brewing Company) - thinking local

Mon, 04 Oct 2021 17:00:00 -0000

Doug Brooke is owner and brewer at East Bendigo Brewing Company, an independent beer manufacturer in central Victoria. Some producers look for broad distribution networks and national - even international - acclaim and success. Doug prefers to think local: if you live here, or if you visit, he wants you to encounter and enjoy a beer that expresses and honours the region.

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https://grasslandpoultry.com.au

Kim Kiss (Grassland Poultry) - The way they used to taste

Mon, 27 Sep 2021 18:02:00 -0000

For Kim Kiss and her husband Bryan, Grassland Poultry is more than just producing chicken meat. For over 30 years they’ve practised regenerative farming, and in recent years they’ve added their prized Australian Heritage Breed Sommerlad Chickens to the mix – ethically grown, and free to roam – just as nature intended.

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Jonas Widjaja (Fair Game Wild Venison) - Wild ideas

Mon, 20 Sep 2021 18:00:00 -0000

If one thing defines Jonas Widjaja (Fair Game Wild Venison), it's a passionate dislike for waste. After discovering he was unable to donate excess meat after a hunting trip, he realized he could make a difference. With wild deer being culled and left in the field to go to waste in Northern New South Wales, he embarked on a journey to bring wild venison to the plates of diners down under.

https://www.fairgame.com.au

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