Personal branding is a topic I’ve been reading about a fair bit lately and feel it’s a trendy topic out there. I suspect the interest may have something to do with the surge in social media platforms like youtube, facebook, twitter etc and the economic, social shift we are experiencing via the online world. Online tools are readily available to enable individuals to create their own profiles, share their opinions, build up a...

Our first “market’her of the month” is my friend Irene and her business – the biscuit tree. Irene and I first met a year or so ago while exhibiting at one of the local markets and – as happens with most market stallholders – we continued to see each other and built up a friendship as we attended other farmers/foodies markets across sydney. As a fairly new stallholder, Irene took me under her wing a bit,...

(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...