Pick your own blackcurrants $2/kg

FRIDAY 5th 10am – 4pm & SATURDAY 6th 8am – 4pm Location: 710 Glen Huon Rd, Glen Huon. Find it on Google Maps here (don’t be looking for the blackcurrants near the main road, as Google Maps still has them pictured – we grubbed them out years...

BJ – back on the shelves!

I could never call myself a “foodie”, because I just don’t know enough about food. I didn’t even know what an avocado was until I was in my late teens, and hadn’t tasted an olive until I was an adult. But I’ve noticed that foodies...
Vivienne’s blackcurrant tart

Vivienne’s blackcurrant tart

(Recipe created by Vivienne Roberts – a.k.a. “Mum” – in her kitchen at Valleyfield. While her official recipe doesn’t mention it, I reckon a dollop of cream on top doesn’t go astray either.) Makes one shallow 12″ (~30cm)...

Trying another tack with blackcurrants

For a while there things were looking up for the blackcurrants. We’d had orders for a decent tonnage of fruit from a couple of commercial customers with talk of that escalating in a couple of years – still small fry compared to the 180 ton we’ve...

Island Berries & Valleyfield Farm Blackcurrant

A quick shout out and thanks to Island Berries Tasmania for our first commercial order of the season; we pulled the old girl out of the shed yesterday and once again she did a sterling job picking nice, intact, clean fruit. Keep your eye out in IGA for their syrup...