Desert lime olive oil, quandong candies, lemon myrtle beer: West Australians gave a million international visitors a unique taste of our wide brown land at Terra Madre Salone del Gusto, …
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Bush booze: Indigenous Australian botanicals make a splash in Italy
Lemon myrtle, wattle seed, sea parsley, bush mint: they’re not the usual ingredients you’d expect to find listed on the back of a bottle of rum, gin or an Italian-made …
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Italy beckons Western Australian indigenous youth in cultural food exchange
I’m thrilled to see my first news article about Terra Madre published on the official Terra Madre Salone del Gusto website. Click here to read the full article. A love …
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Countdown to Terra Madre 2018
Check out my very first published video below (eek!). I’m taking the plunge into video to truly capture the incredible atmosphere, noise and colour that a million or more visitors are …

Portland’s hidden urban farms
Hidden a mere 15-minute drive from downtown Portland, in the city’s North East, is the unexpected semi-rural neighbourhood of Cully, which is brimming with urban farmlets growing food, flowers and …

Fifty Shades of Green
I fell in love with Oregon all over again. Marrying an American means travelling back to the States to visit family is a semi-regular occurrence and one that happily sates …

Italy Mark II: Terra Madre 2018
I’m a big believer that if you open yourself up to opportunities and focus your energy in a chosen direction, the universe will provide. The trick is to recognise those …

Embarking on a year of gastronomic discovery in Italy
I’m saying it out loud, I’m writing it down, I’m telling friends and family, yet still it seems like a delicious fantasy. A wildly adventurous, unashamedly romantic, ridiculously out-of-the-box idea …
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Origins of the name “Edgefield”
I’m often asked why we called our property Edgefield and where the name comes from. It’s actually an amalgamation of ideas that we knew just fit, as soon we said it out loud. Jeff’s …