Beef in the black
The grass is slick with rain at David and Sara Roe’s 1930 hectare grazing property Benalong, west of Gingin, and their handsome black angus...
Powered by the sun
The Loose Leaf Lettuce Company doesn’t need much by way of introduction. A Gingin success story, the company now harvests as much as 5...
Feast of Northern Valleys Flavours competition
We’re calling all local producers, food professionals and home cooks to send in a recipe which uses locally produced, in-season produce. The top 12...
Magnificent Mangoes
Locally grown mangoes are just weeks away from their peak, and the magnificent mango trees at Tony and Jenny Maddern’s Avalon orchard in Gingin...
Ripe for picking
Ann Graham of Burroloo Well Hydroponics is enjoying a bumper season of tomatoes this year, and the 500 odd plants in her hydroponics growing...
Chittering Farmers Markets
At the recent Lower Chittering Farmers Markets people came from near and far to enjoy a beautiful day outdoors at the Lower Chittering Hall.
In...
Check out citrus!
Mandarins are fast becoming the favoured choice as they offer the perfect lunch box addition, easy to peel and less mess than oranges.
Imperials are...
Citrus Season
The citrus season is here and the message from citrus growers is ‘buy WA citrus’!
To celebrate the beginning of the season the WA citrus...
This, our daily bread
New Norcia’s resident master baker, the charismatic Terry Nuske is adamant that baking bread is as easy as cooking a roast. The ingredients
are simple...
Old vine discovery
When Gail & Dan Bam purchased the 100 acre ‘Glenowen’ property in Bindoon in 1996 they had no idea about winemaking, just a lifelong...
Blooming Blueberries
Father and son, Derek and Marek Fisher, are understandably pretty excited about their new horticulture venture, blueberries.
For the last few years they have built...
A hard nut to crack
May2012
Brenda and Bill Denham have a Macadamia farm of 800 trees in Chittering.
They planted all the trees themselves, the first 200 were planted about...
