Farming – cold, wet, hot and boring – but I love it.

Farming is awful – the weather’s terrible, it’s cold and wet or really hot, it’s boring – but I love it and I wouldn’t do anything else.  Katherine Gillet ,Two and Five’s farm manager is beautifully honest about her job, The one day a week I’m in the office I really hate it. Two and Five Farm just north of Geelong […]

It takes an extended family to raise a crop. A bit chilli at Fair Food this week.

I just re-watched the video interview we made with Madeline 4 years ago when she was 21.  It’s still amazes me how grounded and focussed she was back then especially when I compare her to the rocket-head I and most of my peers were at that age.Four years on I caught up with Madeline to see how things have changed from […]

For Love of Onions

It used to be there were just a few onions carefully rotating themselves each week in my root vegetable basket forming a beautiful symbiosis with the potatoes, parsnips, turnips and beetroot residing within.  Together, they made beautiful, mouth-watering dishes with a mere dollop of butter and a slow roast in the oven. But that was […]