Author: Sue Dyson and Roger McShane

Tasmanian Butter Company Cultured Butter

Tasmanian Butter Company: Cultured butter

♥♥♥ The Tasmanian Butter Company, the brainchild of Olivia Morrison, is producing excellent cultured butter taking advantage of the first class dairy produce available in Tasmania. The key to the wonderful flavour is that the cream is cultured before churning. If you want to try this at home you can […]

Elgaar Farm Gate Market

Elgaar Farm: Great Dairy Products

♥♥♥ Elgaar Farm – Introduction Elgaar Farm is a shining example of what can be achieved through organic farm practices. Joe, Antonia and the Gretschmann family produces milk from their Jersey cows with cream that sits proudly in the neck of each old-fashioned glass milk bottle. They farm totally organically […]

Fat Carrot Farm Radicchio

Fat Carrot Farm: Quality Organic Vegetables

Fat Carrot Farm – Introduction Fat Carrot Farm is an organic vegetable producer at Oyster Cove in Tasmania’s south run by Stan and Briony Robert. They grow delicious and nutritious heirloom vegetables such as Chantenay carrots, Italian tomatoes, lovely tomatilloes, squash, pumpkins and Cime di Rapa and other greens. And […]

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Tasmanian Natural Garlic & Tomatoes

♥♥♥ Tasmanian Natural Garlic & Tomatoes – Introduction Annette and Nevil Reed of Tasmanian Natural Garlic & Tomatoes produce high quality garlic on their Selbourne farm. The garlic bulbs are purple in colour and are noticeable because of their plumpness and weight. The cloves are fresh and juicy and full […]

York Town Organics at Eumarrah

York Town Organics: Robust vegetables

♥♥ York Town Organics produces some of the best organic vegetables in Tasmania. Situated up a corrugated road just north of Beaconsfield in the Tamar Valley, Bruce and Clare Jackson have shown just how hard work and dedication can lead to extraordinarily high quality produce. We have been promoting organic […]

The Cat’s Tongue: Amazing Chocolates

♥♥ The Cat’s Tongue – Introduction Andy Abramowich makes the most beautiful chocolates in Tasmania which he sells under The Cat’s Tongue brand. You can find these delicious chocolates at the Wursthaus Kitchen in Salamanca and at the Hill Street Grocer in West Hobart. You will be able to see […]

Pigeon-Whole-Bakers

Pigeon Whole Bakers – Amazing Bread

♥♥♥ Pigeon Whole Bakers – Introduction Pigeon Whole Bakers is run by Emma and Jay Patey who used to own the Pigeon Hole Café in West Hobart. Pigeon Whole Bakers are in the revitalised Mercury building in central Hobart where they have a retail presence. They produce great loaves of […]

Wursthaus in Salamanca

Wursthaus Kitchen – Excellent produce

♥♥ Wursthaus Kitchen – Introduction The Wursthaus Kitchen just off Hobart’s Salamanca Place is a showcase for the best of the state’s produce and for the value-added products produced both on the premises and at the Wursthaus production facility at Cambridge. The Wursthaus was first created in a small shop […]

Vermey’s Quality Meats

♥♥ Vermey’s Quality Meats – Introduction Vermey’s Quality Meats is an excellent butcher in Sandy Bay run by Marcus Vermey who took over the shop from his father. Marcus always has a great assortment of high-quality meat and good availability of less-easy-to-locate items such as offal. The staff are very […]

Agrarian Kitchen Cooking School

♥♥♥ The Agrarian Kitchen currently at Lachlan in Tasmania’s verdant Derwent Valley has rapidly established a reputation as one of the most innovative, yet practical, farm-based cooking schools in Australia. Note that it will soon be moving to New Norfolk next to the Agrarian Kitchen Eatery. Set on five acres, […]