At the end of summer we made what seemed like a big decision – to stop growing mushrooms and grow only microgreens. The mushrooms were beautiful and award winning and impressive but at the end of the day they just didn’t give us a reliable enough yield to make it Read more…
The Clare Valley, where we live, does wine really well. It also does restaurants really well. What is doesn’t really do at the moment is paddock to plate food experiences, where visitors can meet with farmers, learn about how a particular food is grown and then eat a meal which Read more…
It seems we’ve been busy the past 12 months as we haven’t put anything on the website since we won a delicious. Produce Award in 2017. And the crazy news is that we’ve won another one! This time it’s for our fabulous King Oyster Mushrooms. Like last year, we are Read more…
Chris and I have been listening to a podcast called Permaculture Voices for a couple of years now. On on of the episodes there was a great quote which went something like “you’ll overestimate what you can achieve in a year and underestimate what you can achieve in five years”. Read more…
We’ll be at our third Barossa Farmers Market this Saturday. When Chris and I first got down to SA we visited all the farmers markets and this one was our favourite. Which given how many excellent farmers markets there are around Adelaide is a big call. But for me, this Read more…
Now that we’ve been mushroom farmers for a whole three months I thought I would do a post about bags for growing oyster mushrooms and what we’ve learned so far. When we started we bought a whole stack of filter patch bags thinking they would be just the right thing Read more…
Well here we are on a spectacular 40 acres in beautiful Watervale, South Australia. There’s a house, a shed, a mud brick studio, a dam, a bore and an abundance of space to DO stuff on. Everything is in need of a bit of love and attention but this is Read more…