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,...

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,...

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...

update. glenorie growers market launch was a huge success today, BIG congrats to Vicki n co. for a fabulous start. Great response from the locals, good variety of produce and nice n cozy community feel. We will be attending each month, so if you enjoy a drive out to the serene semi-rural country side glenorie offers, we look forward to seeing you there next month!! (Sunday June 27). — Vicki Brownless is co-ordinating the brand new...

Many people ask me what relish is exactly or want me to explain the difference between relish, chutney and a pickle. So here are my definitions (with some help from wikipedia)… By definition, a “relish” is a cooked, pickled, chopped vegetable or fruit food item which falls into the ‘condiment’ family.  A condiment’s role is to improve or enhance the flavour of your food or meal, similar to sauce,...

The kind editors at SMH Good Living (Sydney Morning Herald’s weekly foodie type lift-out) squeezed in a fantastic blurb about relish this. and our saucy relishes last week!!! (Tuesday 28th July). It reads: Home-made flavours Relish is not for nanas according to Sarah Ladyman, who ditched her corporate marketing job for a lifestyle change and started her own business last year. The relish this range is based on her home-made relish...

We went to bunnings and bought a compact “can – o – worms” worm farm! Ok so it’s not quite the puppy I’ve been wanting for the past 5 years, but I’m still excited to finally have a pet in our ‘pet strict’ unit, and to be able to put all of the vegetable and fruit peelings from my relish making to good use is a great feeling.  It was really easy to put together and you only need to have...

Hungry for change. This movie’s aim is to bring about change and awareness to the ridiculous control the large ‘fastfood’ companies have over our food sources and how the US government departments are happily going along with them – for the profits.  Award-winning film maker Robert Kenner has worked 6 years to bring this book based movie to the table to reveal what people are really eating and exposing the sad...