Our Producers
I took a road trip to Ballarat today. It’s interesting driving through the landscape and seeing it change from the familiar orange/yellow bush grasses to…
Continue ReadingYou know you’re onto a good thing when producers have an open farm gate policy and are happy to share their story and farming philosophy. …
Continue ReadingIn the 1970s, Ron Laughton used to drive from Melbourne to Rochester and back, as part of his job in the dairy industry. He would…
Continue ReadingHead off the beaten track, beyond Heathcote and deep into the bushland you’ll find Wild Duck Creek. Surrounded by the dark, skinny branches of the…
Continue Reading“As a small winemaker, you don’t need to make a lot of wine that everyone likes. You just have to make wine that enough people…
Continue ReadingI was truly inspired by a talk Anne-Marie gave at a Food Forum in Daylesford a few years back. It really stuck with me. Was…
Continue Reading‘There’s free range, and then there’s Warialda Beef. “It’s a very different management system,” Allen, who runs Warialda with his wife, Lizette, explains. “The cows…
Continue Reading‘The trees are happy. And not just the olive trees with their thick, strong trunks and green branches heaving with olives, it’s the fruit trees…
Continue Reading“The land here is white clay – it was used for brickmaking – and we’re set up in the middle of an industrial estate,” George…
Continue Reading“Marilyn and Ian are a true example of the resilience of Australia’s farming families, and just what can happen when you think outside the box.…
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