It was great to watch the delight of the many locals who turned out to the Tomato Tasting and Peoples Choice awards at the Southern Harvest Farmers Market. A huge range of sizes and colours of tomatoes had everyone intrigued, from Tommy Toe, Tiny Tim, Green Grape, Jeunne Flamee, Granny’s Throwing Tomato and more.
Saturday February 11th 9am til Noon, Bungendore Anglican Hall, Butmaroo St
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igerella, San Marzano, Jaune Flammee, Tommy Toe, Green Zebra, Ox Heart, Yellow Pear, Black Krim, Brandy Wine Pink, Wapsipinicon Peach, Amish Paste …
The varieties are almost endless, are you ready to taste them […]
Braidwood is fast becoming the garlic capital of Australia, and this year the Braidwood Garlic Growers Group hopes to supply local garlic in most months of 2017.
Most members of the group, representing at least 30 growers, are in the process of harvesting their late season garlic crop. This should mean that consumers and growers in our […]
Buying seasonal food makes sense for a lot of reasons. Eating with the natural seasonal cycle means your food is at its peak taste, offers good value for money, requires less resources to grow and, if purchased directly from your local farmer, or local businesses that support local farmers, doesn’t need to be transported far.
Eating […]
Lots. Let’s start with farmers not being paid well by major retail chains for the food they grow and raise for us. Then there’s excessive food imports that unfairly disadvantage not only Australian farmers and farm workers but our food processors as well. And about much of that imported food… do we really know how […]
Celebrate Fair Food Week on Saturday 15th October with a dinner menu full of seasonal, local and chemical free produce sourced from producers across the Capital Region.
Southern Harvest Association has been working hard to grow fresh food producers across the ACT and Southern NSW through education, community building, and our local farmers market in Bungendore. What better […]
It’s September and Spring is in the air, the birds are returning, the bees are buzzing, the air is alive with their noises and the smells of pollen and nectar. The plants have had so much water this Winter, they look like they are going to grow at a phenomenal rate.
We will see. I hear […]
Over an action packed week, FOOD STORIES examines that web of interactions within the food system of the hugely successful SAGE Farmers Market in Moruya.
Commencing at the Tuesday market, you will witness the extraordinary vitality of this enterprise. In a deliberate way we are starting at the end, at the market itself. From […]
A new Food Box Initiative is being started thanks to Canberra City Farm. It will be run from their site at Dairy Flat, near Fyshwick. They are currently looking for producers who would be interested in participating in the initiative – no washing or packaging of produce is required – the members will do […]
Buying seasonal food makes sense for a lot of reasons. Eating with the natural seasonal cycle means your food requires less resources to grow and often doesn’t need to be transported as far. That means it’s often cheaper, too.
Eating with the seasons makes eating well easy, because foods that come into season at the same […]
