by Marshall | Dec 20, 2018 | News
Pick your own raspberries @ $12 per kilogram, Saturday 22nd December 2108 9am – 12pm. $5 entry per party/family, which covers the fruit we encourage you to taste while you pick. This is not a ticketed event, and depending on how this one goes, what’s...
by Marshall | Jun 11, 2017 | Musings, News
WARNING This post contains images some readers may find disturbing. But if you signed the petition to stop the work of Hermann Nitsch at Dark Mofo, and then went home to eat a steak, I reckon you should look at them anyway. Lucky he didn’t go to Dark...
by Marshall | Jan 20, 2017 | News
The short story: chemical residue tests showed that despite our initial concern, our raspberries returned the same results as raspberries purchased from a supermarket. Background As explained in this post, I cancelled heaps of raspberry orders after getting soil test...
by Marshall | Jan 20, 2017 | News
SATURDAY Jan 21st 10am – 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 ago). Once you get to the...
by Marshall | Dec 25, 2016 | News
UPDATE: the fruit test results are back – all ok – read about them here. …an apology, by way of explanation… The short version Our raspberries are growing on an old apple orchard site, in which old pesticides were used for some years. As a...
by Marshall | Jul 27, 2016 | News
This kind of thing (and its geopolitical implications) is probably what scares me most about climate change. With snow on the surrounding hills, here are our raspberries, shooting from the buds, before the leaves have even dropped completely. I’m a new hand with...
