Regional Foodie makes an onsite visit to Noosaville’s most popular urban farm, oyster mushroom growers, Noosa Earth, as part of FAN’s (Food and Agribusiness Network) farm and factory tours for network members. Truth be known, it was not my first visit to Noosa Earth, having visited last year, but as part of FAN’s ongoing commitment [...]
Over the years I have visited New Zealand a number of times, which made it all the more wondrous to me that I had never heard of Waiheke Island. Waiheke Island is probably one of New Zealand’s best-kept secrets. However, since returning home, upon mentioning it to fellow travellers and friends, I have discovered it [...]
Baranbali Farm, is the farm story that dreams are made of. It has all of the dreamy elements; the rolling green hills of the Witta landscape unravelling before you, beautiful rippling waters of an amply sized dam filling the void in between. Sheep, horses, pigs, cattle, chickens and ducks. Vegie gardens. Wonderful out buildings and [...]
Thursday night was a pretty special night for Black Bunny Kitchen. It was their first Wild Food and Wild Beer 8 course degustation. Now, for those who missed out, I gave you plenty of warning, and you truly DID miss out! What a fabulous evening! I hung out in the kitchen for the evening with [...]
I have wanted to visit Hinterland Feijoas for quite some time, but only just managed a visit last week as part one of the FAN – Food and Agribusiness Network events last week for the How To Run A Successful Farm Gate Workshop. Hinterland Feijoas is a grower of that much sought after Kiwi fruit, [...]
Roses are not generally something that you expect to find growing abundantly in the tropical gardens of the Sunshine Coast, but Caz Owens, a most lovely rose gardener, recently introduced me to her beautiful little patch of earth where roses flourish unexpectedly in her own wonderful secret garden. I have long held a passion for [...]
I love the innovation on the Sunshine Coast. New food trends see new businesses catering to these trends, and I love how producers have become so adaptable and intuitive to the needs of chefs and the culinary creative. This is very much the case with The Greenshed, a Sunshine Coast business that specialises in chemical [...]
Spanner crabs are not new to me, but it has been some time since I had quality fresh spanner crab and I forgot how GOOD it is. There is nothing quite like a spanner crab, live, straight from the boat and into the boiling water. Sensational! And before I get any hate mail, I numbed [...]
I have been quite fascinated by the whole concept of foraging. It has always been on my radar, and over the years I have met a number of chefs / cooks / producers and people who just love doing it, who have broadened their own food horizons to include a number of wild foods. However, [...]
I am a sucker for a pig story. I don’t know what it is but I just love pigs – both on the plate and off! If there is an opportunity to visit a farm and interact with some piggies, it doesn’t take much to convince me. It was with this in mind that I [...]
