(this post follows on from the first introductory post on Seth Godin’s book Linchpin here: linchpin. the new world of work) part two. This next chapter of linchpin ‘indoctrination: how we got here‘ has hit a real nerve with me, a deep personal one. This chapter is definitely interesting, a little radical and will open your mind – if it’s not already of course. It’s a courageous chapter and I’m so...

introduction. I have just started to read seth godin’s latest book ‘LINCHPIN Are you indispensable? How to drive your career and create a remarkable future’ and within a few paragraphs I am nodding, I am inspired and basically, hooked and I’m only on page one.  Godin is the international bestselling author of the popular Purple Cow, The Dip, All Marketers are Liars and Tribes (to name a few) which have changed the...

I thought it would be neat to find out a little more about the other entrepreneural women I’ve met at various markets, who also started their own foodie business and sell their products at farmers markets around australia too. They have their own story to tell to inspire us all and create deliciously good products I’d love to share with you, including gourmet chocolates, belgian chocolate brownies,  homemade biscotti,...

mr relish and I packed up our tent, a few boxes of relish and jumped in the car for an adventure to the Wollombi Valley market during the Queens Birthday long weekend. Located at the Wollombi saleyards in the heart of the historic colonial village of Wollombi, it takes just over an hour or so from Sydney (just before Cessnock in the Hunter Valley wine region). The market is held four times a year on the Monday of each long weekend and...

mr relish LOVES pizza. Whenever I ask him what he wants for dinner, he always says, without a doubt…”PIZZA!”.  So when I found out one of my favourite bread men at the taylor square markets had sourdough pizza bases I had to grab some (Berry Woodfired | Sourdough – yes from the “best sourdough bread bakery in Berry!”). The packet contained two bases the size of a typical ’small’ pizza, so the...

I think it is time to bring out a new product line for relish this.  After many requests for a pickle I’ve decided to start playing around with them and bring a few out. A pickle is actually a relish, and is commonly a fruit / vegetable pickled in vinegar (i.e. gerkins/dill pickles, pickled onions, pickled beets etc). So what do you think  – “pickle this. It’s not just for poppas” !? teehee. I love the play...

Apparently I’m a bootstrapper. An entrepreneur who is willing to invest all her life savings and time into a start up venture without any help from an external source of dosh. And on a shoestring budget. Well then, I guess I am. Mr relish covered the majority of our living costs for the first 12 months of building relish this, so my savings and time could be spent on building the business.  This was a great advantage, yet it was...

A story with heart and soil. This looks like a great educational and fundamentally important documentary showcasing the world we live in and the relationship we have with it – from the perspective of living DIRT! The trailer shows snippets of another eye opening movement (similar to Food Inc),  to help us respect the resources we have access to, the way we choose to live and how we all may need to start making some changes.  And...