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Provenance Growers

Locality: Hobart, Tasmania

Address: Salamanca Market 7004 Hobart, TAS, Australia

Website: https://www.provenancegrowers.com.au

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25.01.2022 It's getting cold, and we have the perfect thing to warm you up. Grab a bag of our tomatillos Salamanca Market, perhaps along with one of the little packs of flavour I put together - a bulb of garlic, a handful of green coriander seeds, a few bay leaves, and some gentle Aji Delight, jalapeno & mystery peppers, and make this sort-of birria. Toast and soak a dried ancho or guajillo pepper.... Toast and grind a teaspoon of cumin seeds. Husk and wash your tomatillos, peel and quarter an onion, and put them on a baking tray with the aji peppers and few cloves of garlic, splash with some olive oil and roast in a hot oven. You want a bit of colour - the tomatillos will go a hideous shade of olive green and collapse, and a few caramelly brown edges are super desirable. If you have the inclination to light a fire and grill your ingredients, rather than using the oven, all the better! Meanwhile, if you're a meat-eater, grab a goat shoulder, some lamb shank, a teenage rooster or other braisable cut and salt and brown it all over in a heavy, deep pan that you can put into the oven covered later. Get out a big blender and tip the soaked, dried pepper in, along with the de-stemmed green coriander if you have it, and blitz them. Add the roasted tomatillos, onions, peppers and garlic, the cumin, some black pepper, a lug of good vinegar, and salt to taste - remembering that you've salted the meat. When it's a beautiful puree add a cup or two of stock and pour it over the browned meat. Pop on the lid and cook it slowly all day. If you aren't cooking meat, just simmer the sauce as long as you can and roast some pumpkin - sweet starchy pumpkin is excellent with the tangy tomatillos. You can eat it soupy, perhaps with some rice, or reduce the sauce and shred the meat through it for the best tacos. Whether soupy or taco-enclosed you'll need some fresh coriander, maybe some extra fresh chilli or hot sauce, and a squeeze of lime at the end.

25.01.2022 We have a wee website! https://www.provenancegrowers.com.au/ It still needs a LOT of work, but I've put together a wholesale shop for chefs who'd like to order by Thursday afternoons and collect from us at Salamanca on Saturdays. If you're in hospo and need flowers, herbs or garnishes, please follow the link in the bio, navigate to shop-wholesale and DM me for the password.... There is also the beginning of a retail page with just edible flowers for pre-order, but I'll keep working on it and add more as the season progresses. Big thanks to Digital Ready Tasmania and the awesome Taihlaura at Kingthing Marketing for getting us started!

25.01.2022 We have some beautiful vegetables left over from todays sales - mini purple and red daikon, sweet little Japanese turnips, tomatoes, yacon, tomatillos and more. Ive popped it all in our stall so the possums cant steal it, and you can grab it, Sunday self-serve style tomorrow. Ive also tidied up a few plants for sale - there are feijoas, winter and lemon savoury, hyssop, French tarragon, lovage, rocoto peppers, parsley, heartsease, shungiku and others. Thanks to everyone who has made it down, were so grateful to you!

24.01.2022 Is the festive madness getting you down? We've filled our peaceful little roadside stall with preserves, lovely edible plants and fresh broad beans, and we can pick bunches of stuffing/seasoning herbs, and edible flower posies to order if you message ahead. It's in Betts Rd, Neika, 20 minutes south of Hobart and open for self-serve from 9-6 (at least) every day....Continue reading

24.01.2022 Another gazillion wonderful edible plants. If you pop a pot or two by the doorstep you'll be amazed at how often you find yourself snipping chives, twisting a punchy walking onion shoot, picking mint for tea or cutting lettuce. Even with a market garden at our disposal it's the collection of containers - pots, stainless washing machine spinners, cracked sinks - by the kitchen door that add the best layers of flavour to our dinners, cocktails and tea pots. And who wants to wal...k to the garden in this weather? We've packed lots of plants - herbs, chard, lettuce, the first few tomatoes (eeek!!), the last few seed potatoes, and loads more for Salamanca, from 8.30-1pm tomorrow, and will have a smaller selection on the Neika stall for self-serve (eftpos will be at Salamanca) as well. There will be sprouting broccoli, mildly bitter greens, edible flowers, eggs, lettuce, kasundi, apricot Worcestershire and other delicious things too. We were so grateful to everyone who came to Salamanca last fortnight, and to everyone who has come to the stall, it gives us a huge confidence boost moving our little farm toward the productive months knowing you're along for the ride!

24.01.2022 Very occasionally our plants make people cry, and I feel like our work is worthwhile. I've had people tear up at bunches of collard greens, bags of tomatillos, and once, these cowslips. The woman wielding her handkerchief told me of her childhood as she dabbed at her eyes, of gathering the flowers of cowslips, tying them into giant balls and throwing them to each other. Such a lavish, joyful-sounding game. Plants hold so many incredible stories and are capable of evoking the... most visceral memories - the scent of spring cow paddocks, the feel of dew on fingertips as flowers were gathered, the smile of a childhood friend. Today we've put out a huge selection of edible plants that you can use to evoke old memories, or build new ones. It's a pearler of a day, there's a bushwalk and a magnificent river to sit by at the end of our street after you've visited us. We're in Betts Rd, 20 minutes South of Hobart. We have veg, preserves and the following things for you to grow - some in small quantities (and way too many lettuce seedlings!) and a selection that will grow every week as we move into spring. Seed potatoes: Banana Dutch Cream Kipfler Pinkeye Sapphire Mixed exotics Salad Rose King Edward Oca tubers, mixed varieties for planting Pots: Borage Heartsease/Johnny Jump Up Lebanese Cress Walking Onions Saffron Perennial Leek Wasabi Sculpit/Stridolo Shungiku Leaf Cardamom Feijoa Sorrel Russian Tarragon Rhubarb Lemon Thyme Rocoto Pepper Anise Hyssop Basil Mint Moroccan Mint Pineapple Mint Chocolate Mint Costmary/Alecost/Bible Leaf Salad Burnet Variegated Lemon Balm Sage Dianthus/Clove Pinks Pepino Dill Nasturtium Garlic Chives Cowslip French Tarragon Globe Artichoke Horseradish Roman Chamomile Alpine Strawberries Good King Henry Winter Savoury Hidcote Lavender Rosemary VEGGIE PUNNETS $4- Fordhook Silverbeet Red Creole Onions Coriander Mixed Chicory Yukomo Giant Snowpea Sugarsnap Pea Drunken Woman Lettuce Ricciolina Lettuce Little Gem Cos lettuce Batavian Endive

24.01.2022 Broad beans. We have plenty of them for Salamanca Market tomorrow! Forget awful, grey, over-boiled bullets and try some of these delicious preparations to convert any broadie-phobic people in your life.... pod, quickly steam, add to a potato salad with loads of sour cream, chives and pecorino. drop whole pods into a basin of water and throw - still damp - onto a hot grill, brush with olive oil, season with salt, grill until the pods collapse, and eat, edamame-style by scraping the beans from the pods with your teeth. grab your copy of 'The Cook's Companion' and make Stephanie Alexander's delicious byessar dip. I make a big batch and spread it on toast for a hearty breakfast, or serve it with flatbread as a nibble. inspired by our friend Rough Rice we made a version of doubanjiang last year and it is delicious. make falafel or fritters. get the jump on your festive dinner by popping a trashy festive film on, get the kids to pod the beans for you, drop them into boiling water (the beans, not the kids!) for about ten seconds, rinse with cold then drop them into an ice bath before draining well and freezing in a thin layer so they freeze fast. If you shake the container as the beans freeze you'll prevent them from clumping up, then drop them into another pot of salted, boiling water a minute before you want to eat them, drain, and top with some herb butter. you can eat them raw as a snack, mash and eat on toast (the new smashed avo?!?) braise in a rich tomato sauce, maybe add eggs shakshuka-style or for a luxe wine snack, double peel, halve and semi dry them, make a tasty oil with cumin, garlic, chilli, thyme and salt, drench the beans in it before roasting in a hot oven, shaking occasionally, until they're all crisp and toasty. Look to Greece, Egypt, Italy, China and your own imagination!

24.01.2022 We enter the season of green Goodbye red tomatoes! Farewell rainbow oca! See you next autumn orange pumpkins! But, oh so many shades of green.... Shungiku, rapini, kale, Portuguese cabbage, mustard greens, and, I did exaggerate, we do have colour in the rainbow winter radishes, purple topped turnips and spicy rocoto peppers. We will harvest more in the morning- there may yet be yacon, nettles and more - Ill see what the hunt brings, and see you after 11am. Thank you all so much!

23.01.2022 On the road side stall today! Seed spuds, seedlings of lettuce, endive, chicory and many more spring things including Yukomo snow peas, which are lovely and tall with beautiful purple flowers.

23.01.2022 Seeds. We have lots coming to Salamanca Market tomorrow that are perfect to sow now, and a few others for gardeners who with warm gardens or who like a challenge. Mâche/corn salad/lamb's lettuce is sweet, nutty, tender and wonderful. Like mini lettuce. Sow them once, let a few plants go to seed in spring, and you'll have these delightful salad snacks popping up year after year to brighten your winters.... Shungiku/chop suey greens/garland chrysanthemum is a terrific Asian green, used in salads, tempura, as sprouts and, best of all, in steamboats. It has beautiful, beneficial-bug-attracting, edible flowers, is an easily-grown self-seeding annual that has no pests or diseases and feeds you year-round. And it's the coolest chrysanthemum you could give your mum on mother's day. Mustard greens, we have a few varieties of these - hot ones, mild ones, lovely komatsuna and gorgeous hon tsai tai. All of these will make your garden beautiful with their various leaves, and sunny flowers early in spring, and are incredibly nutritious and vibrant things to use in the winter kitchen. We use them in soups, stir-fries, dumpling fillings - and as wrappers for faux dumplings or san choy bao style. And the flower stems of some, especially hon tsai tai, are sweet, succulent treats in late winter. Rainbow broad beans - a mix of coloured seeds and coloured flowers to brighten your kitchen and garden. We recommend sowing a few now, some more in early August, more mid September and some in October for continued harvest rather than a glut. Pinch out the tips when the plants are 30cm tall and braise them with lots of butter- your plants will grow side-shoots and be more productive and wind-hardy. We'll also have a wintry selection of produce, lovely preserves and a huge selection of plants and other seeds. Come early to avoid crowds and queues and to get the best selection!

23.01.2022 Seed spuds are in! Because of uncertainty around markets weve got a little less this year, but plenty of pinkeyes for Christmas lunch. In the roadside stall as of this afternoon are: Kipfler Banana Sapphire... Burgundy Blush Salad Rose King Edward Dutch Cream Pink Eye And if I have time Ill make up some mixed bags for the one of everything folks like me. There will also be little packs of mixed oca/yam tubers, comfrey crowns and a mix of perennial seedlings. The first lettuces will be ready next week with a huge range of other edibles growing in their pots, waiting for a few more warm days to get them going. Hello sprinter!!!!

23.01.2022 Tomorrows stall is looking bountiful. We managed to pick lots of tomatoes before the frost hit, and that frost has sweetened our greens - meaning delicious kale and Portuguese cabbage for you! The mustard greens and turnips in this picture will also be on the stall, along with rocoto peppers, oca, yacon, and if I have time to dig it (after being distracted by giant raptors today !) there will be skirret.... We have plenty of kasundi, flavoured salts, cocktail shrubs and Worcestershire sauce. And there will be plants, a few walking onions, winter savoury, Roman chamomile and other lovely things!! See you here after 11am.

23.01.2022 Shark fin melon, chilacayote, Cucurbita ficifolia. A couple of these are on our stall today, but for the aficionados I do have some one year old specimens available by pre order. You can crack the fresh ones now, steam or roast them until you can tease out the strands, then add them to a delicate broth where theyll tread the line between noodle, vegetable and, perhaps, gelatinous shark fin - not having tasted shark fin I can only use my imagination.... Or, you can leave these young ones on the kitchen bench until their skin hardens, and store them for up to two years (if you see the skin start to soften then you must eat them right away) then crack them - this is often done by dropping the fruit on a stone floor - pick out any black seeds and put these aside to dry - and again roast or steam until tender, then make a syrup of panella or other unrefined sugar, cinnamon and orange juice and zest and simmer gently until the strands are translucent and candied. You can eat it warm from the pot, or Ive put mine in jars and used it for sweet empanadas. Then grab those dried seeds, make toffee and pour it over the seeds to make a pretty brittle. Our friends @tommchugos make a delicious mustard fruits from them - a delicious side for cured meats or cheeses. And the internet will reward you with hundreds of different regional preparations. The big, older ones will be expensive - a fruit with cellaring time! And theyre big, so let me know if youre keen and Ill weigh one and get back to you. But Ive got a few of the smaller ones on the stall today!

22.01.2022 Tomatoes are on the Betts Rd stall in their hundreds today until 4 when they'll be packed in the van to head to Salamanca on Saturday, where we'll be back in our usual Summer site, then they'll be unpacked again - after pancakes - to be back on the roadside stall by 11am on Sunday. There are plenty and we should have them until at least the end of November.

22.01.2022 Our garden is full of Green Rosellas, the biggest rosellas in the world, and endemic to lutrawita/Tasmania. Today one of them left me a gift to find as I got borage seedlings out for tomorrows road side stall at Neika. Along with the borage there will be some lovely, luminous spring seedlings, perennials, greens ready for your kitchen, eggs, preserves, seed potatoes in many shapes and colours and some seeds.... The seedlings - some in limited numbers - are: Buttercrunch lettuce Drunken woman lettuce Little Gem cos lettuce Mixed chicory Batavian endive Red Creole onions (not many of these this week, but more almost ready) and Coriander, along with a selection of perennials.

22.01.2022 I'm working on a range of indoor edible plants for next season. So far we're enjoying Oxalis triangularis with its apple-candy-flavoured leaves, leaf cardamom with citrussy, spicy leaves that are incredible in coconut milk curries, and Ceylon spinach which is very happy on the kitchen windowsill and I'm trying very hard to strike cuttings of my coffee plant that has given me about ten coffee berries in as many years, but is so lovely I forgive her recalcitrance! Do you have a...ny favourite indoor edible plants, or have you successfully grown and traditionally outdoor plants inside? **The roadside stall is open today, full of winter veg seedlings, perennial herbs, edible flower plants, veg seeds, preserves and collard greens and kale bunches. Betts Rd, Neika, self-serve, so please bring change.

22.01.2022 Remember the shark fin melon from last week? Well have them on the stall tomorrow - Ill cut some in half for experimenters, or you can take a while one and make soup for the family - along with kale, tomatoes, oca, yacon, turnips, rapini, purple daikon and more!! See you here from 11am on Saturday. Ill post the method for this soup in the comments.

21.01.2022 We spent yesterday labelling tomato seedlings ready for our Neika roadside stall, from 11am on Saturday. There is no rush - we are on schedule to have an ocean of seedlings at Salamanca Market on the 24th for your show-day planting - but we will have a beautiful selection here, in Betts Rd, Neika THIS Saturday, the 17th from 11am. There will be the earliest - Golden Nugget, the most opalescent - Violet Jasper, the most sensible - George, the most productive for a late season ...sauce session - Orange Banana, along with many other varieties, some in low numbers, with many more coming on and available here and at market over the coming month or more. If you do come on Saturday: please angle park in our driveway - please don't block the road for our neighbours. If it's really busy, drive to the end of our street and enjoy the river for a few minutes while the crowd thins. please observe social distancing and please stay home if you're not well, DM and we can work out a hands-free collection for you if you can't safely shop amongst others. please bring a box to keep your seedlings upright and in good nick for planting. If you're buying in advance of planting, keep the plants outside, in full sun - under eaves if you're concerned about looking sneaky frosts, and water deeply every day or two, but make sure plants are able to drain - no sitting them in saucers or buckets! The plants are young at this stage, to remove them from their pots imagine you're tapping a sandcastle out of a bucket. Put your fingers either side of the stem, palm facing the soil, and rotate your hand so your palm faces up. Tap the back of your hand on your knee and the root ball in the pot will come loose so you can lift the pot away and tuck your plant into the soil. If I've still got you after all that, we'd be very grateful if you could bring your pots back. We have never purchased new plastic pots for our nursery thanks to you all!

21.01.2022 We've just updated the wholesale website, provenancegrowers.com.au for hospitality orders to collect at Salamanca on Saturday. It's a first-in, best-flavoured thing, so be quick for the widest selection. For home cooks, these veg and much more, will be on the stall on Saturday!

21.01.2022 I know I post a lot of peas, but I'm spending all day, every day at the propagation bench in the green house and these vines are right behind me. Trouble is I'm procrastination-eating every pea before they get much bigger than this one. We have Yukomo Giant snow peas and Sugar Snaps on the Neika roadside stall today , along with plenty of seed spuds - it's the perfect time to get your festive pink eyes planted - and lots of salad greens, if you tuck them in now you'll be sorted for bbq season!

21.01.2022 We're taking the day off and won't be at Salamanca Market today. Our roadside stall at Neika is open for self-serve today and all week, and we'll be back at market on the 2nd of January. Thank you all again for your support this year, every kind word and act, every sale, every returned plant pot and jar has made us feel part of a magnificent community.

20.01.2022 It's a bit breezy today, so we've closed the roadside stall until it eases mid-Wednesday. Tie down your trampolines, tie up your broad beans and we'll see you on the other side!

20.01.2022 Saturday's the day! We've been picking produce, labelling plants and organising preserves ready for our first Salamanca Market back. We'll be in the middle row as usual, just a few stalls down toward the silos, straight out from Cargo. We have some really lush, beautiful spring seedlings for salads, teas, flavouring - even an ancient hop substitute and the mint used in creme de menthe.... We will still have the roadside stall stocked, but the eftpos machine will be at Salamanca so please bring change. We can't wait to see you all again!!

20.01.2022 Last night's sunset salad. Now is the perfect time to plant salad greens, while the soil is cool but not cold, and keeping the watering up is an easy chore. I'll be here with the stall open and stocked with seedlings, eggs, produce and preserves by 11am. This beauty is ricciolina lettuce, it is sweet and tender, can be picked a leaf at a time to prolong harvest, we'll have it and a lot more delicious plants ready for you!

20.01.2022 We had a nip last week, but after yesterdays shimmering frost Im so grateful we got the last of the tomatoes in or they would have turned to mush. Now we have to sort them into ones that are ripe, others that may ripen and those that will stay green and need pickling. The frost is a glorious reset. Ending lingering summer crops, seeing off warm season pests and giving us the excuse for another cup of tea before heading out in the mornings.

20.01.2022 We're all ready to head to Kingston, Hobart and surrounds tomorrow like farmer-Santas, delivering cheer! If you'd like one of our hampers delivered to a friend, yourself, or to collect from our farm gate at Neika, or our Salamanca Market stall, please hop onto provenancegrowers.com.au We've popped a couple of add-on options too, some tasty garlic and a brilliant bit of boxing day reading. If you'd like to tweak a hamper, delivery date or have any trouble with my luddite websi...te work, please get in touch. We'd love to feed you and yours! Pending interest we may do another delivery day next week. Let us know what works for you.

20.01.2022 Beautiful rainy-day harvest today for Salamanca Market! Picking in the rain can be wonderful. The vegetables stay deliciously fresh and the gardeners calm, worth getting soggy jeans for! Tomorrow we'll have radishes- crunchy cherry belle and meaty, Polish zlata that are brilliant julienned in a salad, pickled or quickly roasted (cooked radishes lose all their pepperiness and become almost unctuous), carrots, beets, broad beans, zucchini, summer squash and more.... There will be preserves, juicy lettuce seedlings that will grow like the wind in warm, damp soil, along with loads of other brilliant edible plants. Come early for the smallest crowds and the best selection of the freshest vegetables. We've had a few smaller restaurant orders this week so there's plenty to go around!

19.01.2022 We have dates! Provenance Growers will be at Salamanca Market on the 26th of September, the 10th of October and 24th of October. The market is currently running from 8am until 1.30pm, parking is super easy early and we would LOVE to see you there! Please see the Salamanca Market page for info on hours, entry and other details. Every other Saturday you can find us at our farm gate in Betts Rd in Neika, only 20 minutes from town. Now that our peak seedling season is on the hor...izon - hello show day tomatoes!! - and our produce will soon be ramping up, we will really need your support. October is traditionally our best time of year and sets our business up for the rest of the growing season. So please choose small business and well ride these strange times through together and come out stronger. PS, if you can please help us by liking or sharing our posts we would be really grateful, thank you!

17.01.2022 Rapini, collard greens, eggs, kasundi, other preserves and plants in the stall now. Perfect for staving off the cold that is coming!

17.01.2022 I know I post a lot of peas, but Im spending all day, every day at the propagation bench in the green house and these vines are right behind me. Trouble is Im procrastination-eating every pea before they get much bigger than this one. We have Yukomo Giant snow peas and Sugar Snaps on the Neika roadside stall today , along with plenty of seed spuds - its the perfect time to get your festive pink eyes planted - and lots of salad greens, if you tuck them in now youll be sorted for bbq season!

16.01.2022 Help please!! Years and years ago I sold seedlings of this plant at Farm Gate Market, but now I have lost the stock plant from my garden. If youre a customer from the old days and have this alive in your garden I would love to beg, buy or swap some cuttings, seed, or, best of all, divisions from you. It is a lovely plant and I would love to have it in our selection if we can track it down again!!

16.01.2022 If you can find a spot out of the rain for the solstice on Sunday, you could light a little fire and roast turnips and radishes in the coals. Once theyre cooked the burnt skins slip off and youre left with a nutty, caramely, sweet vegetable that you can eat with a little salt, maybe some olive oil, or a tahini, garlic and yoghurt dressing would be perfect. Ill post the video of me burning my fingertips (again!) in the comments so you can see how easy it is. We did this last week and it was wonderful. Youll find these veggies, and many others on our stall in Betts Rd, Neika, from 11am tomorrow (Saturday) along with plants and preserves. See you then!

15.01.2022 Cant get fresher than that! Picked just this moment, every shade of green, perfect food for stimulating sluggish digestion, nurturing the awakening muscles of spring. Come and get it, Betts Rd, Neika, 20 minutes from town with the loveliest bushwalk to Cathederal Rock at the end of our street to make the trip even more worthwhile. Self serve, so please bring change or DM to arrange direct deposit, thank you!

15.01.2022 Our Houdini chicken gave us boxing day babies. Perfect timing for floofy cuteness!

15.01.2022 We've just updated our wholesale website list for this week. Hospitality folks, please DM me for the password, order by Thursday afternoon and collect from Salamanca Market on Saturday. And for everyone else, please watch this space! We're planning some lovely hampers and a delivery day to CBD and surrounds. We'll post here when they're up on the website, it will be delicious!!

15.01.2022 I dont usually post pictures of my lunch, and this is a particularly ugly one! But I finally got around to making caldo verde, a Portuguese soup of tronchuda cabbage, potato, onion, garlic, stock and chorizo. I have a real love for nourishing, plain food - dont get me wrong, a spicy, herb-laden meal is the stuff of life - but this soup and its ilk, food of the humblest ingredients that alchemically touches and satiates every taste receptor, makes me happy.... Because Im a bit odd, I have two forms of Tronchuda for you on the stall from 11am tomorrow - a broad, sweet salady one, and the one I chose for my pot, which I suspect is the more traditional form - a dense, glaucous-green thing that will see your muscles bulge and your mouth smile. And everything tastes better from my favourite bowl @ridgelinepottery!

15.01.2022 Today on the stall: glorious turnips, squeaky greens, little cabbages for the early birds, rapini, kasundi and some fun plants - cape gooseberries and pepino amongst them nd much more. See you from 11am!

15.01.2022 You don't have too many aphids, you have too few ladybirds! If you have an aphid issue it may be because your plants are too sappy from all that nitrogen-rich compost you gave them, or that they don't have the nutrients they need to build strong cell walls to fight off defenders, or that you don't have enough flowers. I rarely worry about aphids, the first few that turn up in the hot house on seedling tomatoes are squashed lest they spread viruses among our little plants, but... as the season progresses we find firstly little brown native lacewings, then hoverflies turning up to feed on the nectar of the flowering parsley or shungiku we've left to over winter for just that reason, and as it warms, even more carnivores come to the party. Soldier beetles, tiny parasitic wasps, green lacewings and these glorious ladybirds join the feast. If you spray you kill your allies along with your foes. So see that tender green morsel for what it is, a snack for your mates, plant flowers and watch nature help you kick gardening goals!

15.01.2022 These guys are right on schedule for your show day needs. Ive been flat out sowing a massive selection of pumpkins, basils, zucchini, squash, summer annual herbs (hello golden purslane, I CAN NOT WAIT to eat you!), lettuce, chard and a gazzillion more things. And tomatoes, thousands of them. Well let you know when we have Salamanca Market dates confirmed, and the tomato seedlings season weekends when were not there well have driveway sales here at Neika, and perhaps even ...some pick up points around the town. We will keep you posted as we figure things out, but we are up for a delicious, self-sufficient summer and hope youre all keen to play along!! For now we have lots of lettuce, perennial herbs and seed spuds on the roadside stall to get you through until the show day frenzy begins. See more

15.01.2022 Things are looking promising for tomorrows stall. Lots of greens, rocoto peppers, winter radishes, turnips, oca, a few tomatoes, preserves, plants and more!

14.01.2022 I learned, while putting my website list together this week, that rose geranium is an African plant, naturally occurring in Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa. I haven't had time to deep-dive into traditional uses, but it will be a fun journey. For now it's listed on our hospo wholesale website ( provenancegrowers.com.au ) and can be ordered before 11am today for pick up at Salamanca Market Saturday (although we do update the website stock on Tuesday afternoons and love or...ders by Thursday pm so we can pick in the cool of the early morning). If you'd like an SMS when we've updated the site so you can have first dibs on all the best stuff please DM me your phone number. And if there's anything you lovely home cooks have a hankering for, edible flowers or herbs, please get in touch. We can give you plastic-free thyme, lemon balm, lemon savoury and edible flower posies in generous bunches!

14.01.2022 Plants for hard times. These perennial leeks grow and multiply from autumn to spring, with glorious, tall, pom pom flowers in early summer before going dormant in summer - therefore not needing water. And they are delicious!! Just pull side shoots as needed, or dig whole clumps once plants are established and youll have leeks for life. On the stall right now in pots, ready to provide you with food forever.

13.01.2022 BBQ doesn't just mean bangers! Yesterday we barbequed our favourite Elgaar halloumi, alongside our radishes, garlic scapes and broad beans. A quickly grilled radish is crisp, sweet and juicy - they lose all their pungency when cooked, so it's a great way to help non-radish eaters to learn to love them.... We put whole boad bean pods into a bucket of water and throw them, still wet, onto the grill. The burst of steam helps get them cooking, then we brush them with a bit of olive oil and sprinkle with salt while they finish. They're done when the pods are good and limp. You can eat whole young pods, discarding the strings as you go, or gnaw the seeds from older pods edamame style. A great way to convert a non- broad-bean-eater - hand them a cool drink and demonstrate the nibbling technique and you'll soon win them over. We should have both of these things on our Salamanca stall this Saturday if the stars align!

13.01.2022 Very occasionally our plants make people cry, and I feel like our work is worthwhile. Ive had people tear up at bunches of collard greens, bags of tomatillos, and once, these cowslips. The woman wielding her handkerchief told me of her childhood as she dabbed at her eyes, of gathering the flowers of cowslips, tying them into giant balls and throwing them to each other. Such a lavish, joyful-sounding game. Plants hold so many incredible stories and are capable of evoking the... most visceral memories - the scent of spring cow paddocks, the feel of dew on fingertips as flowers were gathered, the smile of a childhood friend. Today weve put out a huge selection of edible plants that you can use to evoke old memories, or build new ones. Its a pearler of a day, theres a bushwalk and a magnificent river to sit by at the end of our street after youve visited us. Were in Betts Rd, 20 minutes South of Hobart. We have veg, preserves and the following things for you to grow - some in small quantities (and way too many lettuce seedlings!) and a selection that will grow every week as we move into spring. Seed potatoes: Banana Dutch Cream Kipfler Pinkeye Sapphire Mixed exotics Salad Rose King Edward Oca tubers, mixed varieties for planting Pots: Borage Heartsease/Johnny Jump Up Lebanese Cress Walking Onions Saffron Perennial Leek Wasabi Sculpit/Stridolo Shungiku Leaf Cardamom Feijoa Sorrel Russian Tarragon Rhubarb Lemon Thyme Rocoto Pepper Anise Hyssop Basil Mint Moroccan Mint Pineapple Mint Chocolate Mint Costmary/Alecost/Bible Leaf Salad Burnet Variegated Lemon Balm Sage Dianthus/Clove Pinks Pepino Dill Nasturtium Garlic Chives Cowslip French Tarragon Globe Artichoke Horseradish Roman Chamomile Alpine Strawberries Good King Henry Winter Savoury Hidcote Lavender Rosemary VEGGIE PUNNETS $4- Fordhook Silverbeet Red Creole Onions Coriander Mixed Chicory Yukomo Giant Snowpea Sugarsnap Pea Drunken Woman Lettuce Ricciolina Lettuce Little Gem Cos lettuce Batavian Endive

12.01.2022 Todays offerings at the stall, its quiet today so there is plenty to go around!

12.01.2022 I wanted to take a picture of the kale, broccoli, oca, carrots, pumpkin and Jerusalem artichokes we harvested for Salamanca Market tomorrow, but by the time I found my camera it was too dark! But it was such a lovely, wet day - the kale squeaked as I picked it, and the rain on the broccoli looked like little diamonds. We'll also have lots of vegetable seeds, delicious edible plants and preserves for you.

11.01.2022 A cup full of boys. These are male native pepper cuttings, Tasmannia lanceolata, and theres a tray of girls already done, tucked in the shade of a nursery bench. Propagation season is here, and weve decided to go big this year, although these peppers wont be ready until next winter at the earliest, were planning a very exciting range of edibles for your horticultural, and culinary, pleasure.... Tomorrow Ill be sowing seeds of classic, perennial herbs - thyme, sage and savoury and doing cuttings and divisions of wasabi, perennial leeks, walking onions and, if I can find them in their dormant state, lots of mints. We only use scavenged pots, and home made potting mix, and never any herbicide, pesticides or ginormous plastic labels, and we are super excited about helping you all feed yourselves sustainably this coming growing season. Get your compost, some seaweed, and cardboard boxes out, find a sunny corner of the yard that you pass often so you can tend it easily and sheet mulch that lawn away. Maybe start some more compost so youve got some gold to tuck your seedlings in with. Fence out the dog, chooks and possums to avoid heartbreak and well see you when that lawn is dead, the worms and other soil organisms have done their work!

11.01.2022 A little update Were generating spring laser-focus after taking some time to enjoy this magical island we live on. If youre from away this will be a boring post with dates and such, so keep on scrolling, but if you are one of our beloved customers please read on!... Salamanca Market is re-opening as Tasmanias Own, a much smaller market, divided into two sections and most likely offering an alternating fortnightly cast of stalls. We wont be joining until mid-September at this point because, while we were away a giant flock of wood ducks ate pretty much everything. Also because we want to take some extra time nailing our plant offerings and market garden successions to offer you the healthiest, tastiest, grooviest plants and veg around. We are really looking forward to joining our brilliant market community again! In the meantime our roadside stall is open. There will be greens stocked on Saturdays, eggs when the girls lay them (thats improving as the days lengthen) preserves and an ever-increasing range of plants every day. Please bring cash or message ahead to arrange direct deposit as we will be slaving away at the potting bench. We can arrange to pick things to order, this has to be easy for us to be financially viable, so until I build my website please be patient with us replying, but we can gather edible flowers, kale, and other things the ducks left us, to order. As always were on the hunt for forestry tubes and can pay you for bulk lots (100 or more) to keep our no-new-plastic dream alive. We are stupendously grateful to everyone who has stopped in, turning our fear into an amazing camaraderie - never before have we felt such a part of the community. We look forward to growing that love, along with lots of food, with you as the weather warms.

11.01.2022 The soil is warm, the spring is (relatively) gentle and we have a van full of plants - putting your wonderful van benches to good use, thanks @islandherbs! We just tucked our tomatoes in yesterday, you can plant well into December for a great crop, we have many kinds of cucumbers, herbs, a nice selection of peppers too! There are radishes, celtuce, fresh herbs, garlic scapes and other fresh veg, along with lots of delicious preserves from our garden - very good choices if yo...u want to knock some festive shopping over early (and if you tell the recipients that they can return our jars, they'll be local and minimal waste gifts!). And we'll unpack the van onto our self-serve Betts Rd stall by 11am on Sunday if you can't make the market.

10.01.2022 Last autumn, during the strangest of times, I spent a lot of time noticing the little things. We were lucky, avoiding shops was easy for us, and the reluctant-to-ripen tomatoes that we'd been cursing all summer proved to be a boon, bringing people to our farm stand when the market was closed, and keeping us well occupied. One of the little things I deeply enjoyed was the Pêche Jaune tomatoes that hung, happily, on their vines, getting sweeter every day, well into June in our ...greenhouse. A customer last weekend told me she'd heard that the similarly fuzzy-skinned Wapsipinnicon Peach had long-keeping qualities due to that downy skin which made my Pêche Jaune experience make even more sense. You wouldn't notice it at all when you eat the fruit, it's not as fluffy as a peach, but these are both terrific tomatoes, and I wonder if their sweet, gentle flavour could make them a candidate for people who find tomatoes hard to eat. If you have a spot sheltered from the frost, or can pull your plants and hang them in a cool shed to continue ripening, it's a great way to extend the salad season and to give yourself the little moments of bliss I found, standing in a frosty garden, nibbling on a deliciously sweet fresh tomato.

10.01.2022 Many, many lovely things for Salamanca Market tomorrow. Russian garlic, zucchini, snow peas, broad beans, beets, carrots, zlata radish, preserves and more for your kitchen. For your garden we have the indispensable, summer-hardy herbs rosemary and thyme, South American tuberous crops: yacon - Smallanthus sonchifolius, oca - Oxalis tuberosa and mashua - Tropaeolum tuberosum, two forms of mitsuba - a lovely, perennial Japanese, parsley-like perennial herb, Greek mountain tea, Sideritus syriaca, lots of lovely lettuce seedlings (finally the sparrows let them grow, yay!!) and many other delicious, curious and wonderful edible plants.

09.01.2022 We've just marked our tomato seedlings down, $3 each or 4 for $10. They'll be on the roadside stall in Betts rd, Neika, for self-serve, until 3pm today, at Salamanca Market tomorrow, then back on the roadside stall on Sunday from 11am. We have also got a huge range of pumpkin seedlings, zucchini and summer squash and lots of herbs for planting, along with fresh herbs, garlic scapes and preserves for your kitchen all ready for tomorrow's market.

09.01.2022 I'm picking lots of sprouting broccoli and greens for the stall tomorrow, and can also pick the following to order. I'll be here with eftpos from 11am to 2pm tomorrow, or please bring change to self-serve. We look forward to seeing you! Produce available for pre-order for Betts Rd, Neika pick-up tomorrow, Saturday the 12th. Some things in limited quantities, some plentiful!... Please DM to order by 3pm today, but I'll do my best for later orders. Pay with cash, or eftpos is available between 11am and 2pm Saturday. Purple sprouting broccoli bunches $5 Broccoli leaf and kale, big bunches $5 Sweet cicely, the perfect bright anise celebration of early spring! $7.50 a tub Veggie-fed eggs $10 Bronze fennel fronds $5.50 a tub Edible flowers, mixed for sweet or savoury, or single varieties $10 tub of 50+ Lemon balm, the best tea or gentle, herbaceous lemon flavouring $5 Bulk sorrel, mix of perfect garnish and bigger soup or puree greens $30kg, 1/2 kgs available Lots of preserves, seed spuds, seedlings and edible perennials available too, I'll post a list of them when I've finished getting plants out later today.

08.01.2022 We're NOT at Salamanca this weekend, but will be there the following one. This Saturday the Neika roadside stall will be open from 11-2, we have a family celebration, so have to close a little early to get our glad rags on! PS If you were planning to pop by for self-serve tomorrow (Friday) it might be good to leave it for another day and avoid the wild winds.

08.01.2022 Tomorrow, from 11am, the stall will be stocked with collard greens, kale, brassica shoots, mustard greens, eggs, kasundi, pepperberry jelly, plum Worcestershire and more. For your garden we will have oca, a rainbow of seed potatoes - along with some classic favourites - and our ever-expanding range of plants.

08.01.2022 Stacks on stacks. Even though the topset onions on this Egyptian Walking Onion plant have only just burst their papery sheath they're already forming their own itty-bitty topsets, ready to walk across the garden. I think because it's been a little damper this year the plants are growing green plantlets rather than their usual papery-skinned little onions on top - I reckon those plantlets would aid in faster world domination for the plants in good seasons, and the harder-skinn...ed onions they usually produce are well suited to waiting dormant until autumn rains trigger growth. If you want food in the apocalypse then I think you can't go past these smart alliums and their cousins. You can eat them at every stage of growth, they'll adapt to the weather conditions nature throws at them and they'll happily march about under your peach tree and you'll never be wanting for baby pickling onions, side shoots like strong spring onions or, if you let the plants dry out in summer, shallot-like bulbs underneath. A proliferation of Allium cepa var. proliferum is the kind of wealth we all need. We have lots of these on our roadside stall, and will bring plenty to Salamanca Market on Saturday.

08.01.2022 Today is tomato day! Ill be filling pots, sowing, labelling and wondering at my seed-hoarding, plant-curiosity habits as I try to keep track of the gazillion plants were growing for you this spring. The second picture here is rather ugly. I was cleaning second hand pots in preparation for today and this is just a little of the plastic junk that comes off of pots, along with plastic stickers, those stout plastic stakes that serve no purpose other than holding up more plastic... tags. It breaks my heart that we make strong, durable things from plastic that are only meant to be used for a fleeting moment at point of sale, then go in a bin. Ive asked a wholesale nursery if theyd re-use them but they said no.... So, this spring were asking you to choose a low-plastic nursery, wherever you are. To bring back clean pots - killing snails and spiders and sterilising pots that arrive here full of gunk after theyve languished in the back corner of a garden for a season or two is a difficult task and makes the costs of using reclaimed plastic higher than buying new (which we will never do!). And please be patient! We grow your seedlings in unheated greenhouses, apart from a couple of weeks on a heat bed as they germinate in August and September, so they wont be early like the chain nursery seedlings are, but they will be stout and strong, all hardened off ready to grow!!!!

07.01.2022 A gazillion tomato seedlings, peppers, herbs, mints, so many plants for @salamancamarket tomorrow. I'd write more to entice you, but I have so many labels to write....! Please come down and we'll send you on a magical, culinary-horticultural adventure.... And if you don't have a green thumb we can stock your pantry with seasonings, kasundi and apricot Worcestershire to cheer your bbq season.

07.01.2022 Weve been trying to harvest in the morning before the stall opens at 11, but with the longest night so near, and more frosts than I can remember, weve taken pity on our own frozen fingers and harvested a few things early. So, in Betts Rd, Neika, from 11am on Saturday you will find: Mustard greens Kale... Cime di rapa Oca Italian turnips Winter radish Jerusalem artichokes Chilacayote The VERY last tomatoes Plants to eat Worcestershire sauce Tomato sauce Flavoured salts Cocktail shrubs Nannas jams And whatever other tasty things we can rustle up from the icy soil. See more

07.01.2022 Sometimes the pestilence in your garden gets their own pestilence. These snug, fluffy cocoons belong to a murderous race of parasitic wasps that eat caterpillars from the inside out. We leave herbs to flower - shungiku, coriander and parsley were all in the greenhouse to attract the seemingly innocent, nectar-feeding, tiny, adult wasps who then go on to pierce unwitting caterpillars with their pointy ovipositors, laying eggs that will hatch inside the poor creature and eat it... from the inside out, crushing its hopes of a winged, cabbage white, adult life. If we picked up pesticide, particularly those hideous systemic ones that make even nectar toxic to feeding insects, these predators would be gone. Similarly if I somehow managed to squish every caterpillar in the garden these parasites would have no hosts. So we ask that you tolerate a nibble here and there from your greens - another wormhole I could take you down is the one about chemicals that grazed plants produce to protect themselves from insects that are actually nutrients for humans, but theres no time for that now, Matts just poured me a glass of wine. Happy weekend everyone !

07.01.2022 We're all picked and packed on this perfect afternoon. At Salamanca Market tomorrow we'll have tomatillos, tomatoes, zucchini, carrots, kasundi, pepperberry jelly, damson and sloe paste, apricot shrub and more. And there are kale, broccoli and lettuce seedlings, Russian, French and Mexican tarragon, apple, chocolate, Moroccan, ginger and pineapple mints, yacon, tamarillo, orange peel thyme among many other tasty plants as well as some lovely seeds.

07.01.2022 Today was glorious, perfect harvest weather. Tomorrow at Salamanca Market we will have tomatoes, tomatillos, carrots, zucchini, garlic, seeds, plants and preserves. It's looking like it'll get windy later, so come early for the calmest market visit.

07.01.2022 This is what happiness looks like! Being part of a food community full of big hearts! We couldnt resist dropping our order into Tom McHugos and walking out with a serve of this, and the most delicious lamb pie in the universe, to eat at home.

06.01.2022 I've just topped up the stall, plenty of edible plants, preserves, garlic scapes and broad beans, and some mixed herb bunches, edible flowers and eggs. Open all day, peaceful, with a restorative river to sit by and find your calm at the end of our street. Betts Rd, Neika, please bring change or DM to arrange alternative payment.... All the best to you and yours!

06.01.2022 Today we have eggs, kasundi, seedlings, delicious sprouting broccoli, a limited variety of seed potatoes, and a huge variety of edible plants on our Neika roadside stall from 11am until 2pm. There will be an amazingly lush tray of buttercrunch lettuce seedlings, perfect to tuck in before the coming deluge! We'll be at Salamanca again on the 10th of October with the first of our tomato seedlings.

06.01.2022 Im picking lots of sprouting broccoli and greens for the stall tomorrow, and can also pick the following to order. Ill be here with eftpos from 11am to 2pm tomorrow, or please bring change to self-serve. We look forward to seeing you! Produce available for pre-order for Betts Rd, Neika pick-up tomorrow, Saturday the 12th. Some things in limited quantities, some plentiful!... Please DM to order by 3pm today, but Ill do my best for later orders. Pay with cash, or eftpos is available between 11am and 2pm Saturday. Purple sprouting broccoli bunches $5 Broccoli leaf and kale, big bunches $5 Sweet cicely, the perfect bright anise celebration of early spring! $7.50 a tub Veggie-fed eggs $10 Bronze fennel fronds $5.50 a tub Edible flowers, mixed for sweet or savoury, or single varieties $10 tub of 50+ Lemon balm, the best tea or gentle, herbaceous lemon flavouring $5 Bulk sorrel, mix of perfect garnish and bigger soup or puree greens $30kg, 1/2 kgs available Lots of preserves, seed spuds, seedlings and edible perennials available too, Ill post a list of them when Ive finished getting plants out later today.

06.01.2022 Todays top tip. Tuck a bay leaf or two on top of your pickles to keep them under the vinegar. There can never be enough pickled peppers, and very few dishes that arent improved by them. Were planning on going big on seedlings this spring, so start saving jars now!

05.01.2022 Tomorrow, Saturday the 29th, on the roadside stall, in Betts Rd, Neika, from 11am you shall find: Kale Collards Sprouting broccoli Kasundi... Apricot worcestershire Pepperberry jelly Nannas jam Seed potatoes of many colours And an avant-garde assortment of edible plants and seeds. See more

05.01.2022 <3 Im pinning this post and will update it as we replenish the stall or as things change. Thanks so much for all the shares and encouragement. we will get though this better together <3 UPDATE Well have the stall open every day with plants, preserves and eggs as theyre laid, and stocked with fresh greens on Saturdays from 11am but for self-serve only so that we can focus our energies on exciting Spring sowings! With the loss of Salamanca Market, and the wonderful res...taurants that have supported us no longer able to order, our stall is currently our only point of sale. For our business it compounds a challenging season with a long dry summer lack of water preventing us from planting our usual winter vegetables - which has left us without the variety needed to supply the very frequently requested veggie boxes. Our plan B was making preserves for tourists (boy do those mainlanders love Worcestershire sauce and pepperberries!) but those tourists are gone for a long while now, so it brings our focus back to where it always should have been - feeding you! Our self-serve roadside stall, is in Betts Rd, Neika, 20 minutes South of Hobart - you cant miss it - will be open every day, with tomatoes, preserves and plants. If you are after a particular plant or preserve and want to check if its available please let me know, we can also package orders - with clean, sanitised hands and leave them out for you to minimise handling. Please bring plenty of change so you wont need to handle cash, or get in touch to organise alternative payment methods, we can come to you with our square reader if were nearby, or arrange direct deposit - our phone numbers are in a sign in the drive if youre stuck. We will be cleaning the door handles of the stall throughout the day, and we would greatly appreciate you washing and sanitising your hands before you come, and only handle what you intend to buy. Please stay home if you feel at all unwell. Please be considerate of both our neighbours - please park in the driveway, and of our privacy - the stall is self-serve, but you are welcome to message ahead if you need us. We wish you and your family all the best, Paulette and Matt Preserves: Spicy Kasundi $10 Apricot Worcestershire $10 Pepperberry Jelly $6.50 Pepperberry Salt $6.50 Makrut Lime and Chilli Salt $6.50 Wakame and Saltbush Salt $6.50 And if you need a tasty, tart syrup to go with your calming tipple at the end of the day we have Apricot and Bay Shrub and Banana Passionfruit and Kunzea Shrub, both rather good with some fizzy water, ice and a dash of gin. Greens and other veg by 11am on Saturday - but if youre heading past get in touch and well see if we can feed you at other times!! Plants - a fun range of perennial edibles at the moment.

05.01.2022 We're looking forward to a lovely, sunny market this Saturday. Contact tracing is now required, so if you'd like to smooth out your morning download the 'Check in Tas' app before you head down, scan the QR code on the market posters and show it to a safety angel on your way in. Or there will be paper forms if you'd like to do it that way. See you on Saturday!

04.01.2022 Its cold and everything is slow; plants are growing slowly, our muscles are taking longer to warm in one mornings, and our little roadside stall is a bit sluggish. This Saturday well still stock it with greens, turnips, rocoto peppers, nettles, preserves, plants and other good things, all from our garden, but well be busy inside building our website, planning crops and walking on the beach. So please, stop by, but bring change or message me to arrange direct deposit.... We have been so grateful to everyone who has stopped by, we are missing the market and our special community there immensely (especially you @harvestfeast! ) so those of you who have taken the trouble to come by have made this time so much easier and we thank you with all our hearts. We are planning for the most epic, diverse, delicious, verdant spring you can imagine, so start that compost heap now, dig out the tomato stakes, scour tip shops for planting vessels and weave yourself a bean trellis and we will have fun together!! For those of you without a garden we also have grand plans to feed you too.

04.01.2022 We're at Salamanca, but we've been so busy I haven't had time to tell you about it! Here until 3, the soil is damp, it'll be 28 on Tuesday and it's the perfect time to plant. We'll have the plants out on the road side stall in Betts Rd from 11am tomorrow and from 9.30 weekdays if you can't make it to Salamanca.

03.01.2022 The stall is full of amazing food today, possibly the last tomatoes, and every shade of green. Tonight would be the perfect night for nettle gnocchi, braised cavolo nero or roasted oca, and we would love to see you!!

03.01.2022 Our last Wednesday! There are turnips, red daikon, tomatoes, oca, warrigal greens, mustard greens, kale and more. Ive also popped out pepino and lemon savoury plants.... Weve decided just to move to Saturdays, from 11am as the produce slows, but there will still be plants, preserves and some shelf-stable produce out every day. Thanks so much for your support!!

03.01.2022 I've just popped some hampers on the website. You can collect them from Salamanca, site 204 on Saturdays until Christmas, or we are having a delivery day to Hobart, Kingston and close surrounds on Thursday the 17th. There are still some kinks in the website that this little luddite is trying to iron out, so please DM me with any questions or requests. Thank you! https://www.provenancegrowers.com.au/retail-shop/hampers

03.01.2022 The stall is loaded with seedlings - literally heaving with tomatoes, a few climbing beans, a delicious flavour spectrum of mints, a big variety of pumpkins large and small, many lovely and unusual self-seeding herbs and salad greens, thymes, lavenders, a rainbow of edible flowers. Betts Rd, Neika, 20 minutes South of Hobart, a few minutes from Kingston. It's self-serve today, so please bring change or please get in touch to arrange alternative payments. It will be open Mond...ay-Thursday 9-5.30, Friday 9-3 and we'll be back at Salamanca on Saturday. Today's tomatoes at $3.50 include: Big coloured kinds- rainbow tomato tarts are magical things, and the flavour differences between each variety are wonderful fun to explore. Evergreen Tasmanian Yellow Black Krim Yellow Oxheart Japanese Black Trifele Big Red- Maltese Black George (classic bush tomato for all you relish makers!) Brandywine Leicester Jones George Mortgage Lifter College Challenger Rouge de Marmande Olomovic Medium-small- St Pierre Debaro Stupice Super Luscious Siberian Wapsipinnicon Peach Peche Jaunne Nyagous Gold Dust Jaunne Flamme Violet Jasper Perfect paste varieties, few seeds, which makes for dense, lush passata - Roma San Marzano Orange Banana Cherry- Black Cherry Riesentraube Coeur de Pigeon Sunrise Bumblebee And quite a few others.

03.01.2022 These guys are right on schedule for your show day needs. I've been flat out sowing a massive selection of pumpkins, basils, zucchini, squash, summer annual herbs (hello golden purslane, I CAN NOT WAIT to eat you!), lettuce, chard and a gazzillion more things. And tomatoes, thousands of them. We'll let you know when we have Salamanca Market dates confirmed, and the tomato seedlings season weekends when we're not there we'll have driveway sales here at Neika, and perhaps even ...some pick up points around the town. We will keep you posted as we figure things out, but we are up for a delicious, self-sufficient summer and hope you're all keen to play along!! For now we have lots of lettuce, perennial herbs and seed spuds on the roadside stall to get you through until the show day frenzy begins. See more

03.01.2022 <3 I'm pinning this post and will update it as we replenish the stall or as things change. Thanks so much for all the shares and encouragement. we will get though this better together <3 Through October we're alternating weekend trade between Salamanca market and the Neika roadside stall. Salamanca: October 10th and 24th for the SHOW DAY TOMATO FRENZY! ... Our self-serve roadside stall, is in Betts Rd, Neika, 20 minutes South of Hobart - you can't miss it - will be open every day with preserves and plants. If you are after a particular plant or preserve and want to check if it’s available please let me know, we can also package orders - with clean, sanitised hands and leave them out for you to minimise handling. Please bring plenty of change so you won’t need to handle cash, or get in touch to organise alternative payment methods, we can come to you with our square reader if we're nearby, or arrange direct deposit - our phone numbers are in a sign in the drive if you're stuck. We will be cleaning the door handles of the stall throughout the day, and we would greatly appreciate you washing and sanitising your hands before you come, and only handle what you intend to buy. Please stay home if you feel at all unwell. Please be considerate of both our neighbours - please park in the driveway, and of our privacy - the stall is self-serve, but you are welcome to message ahead if you need us. We wish you and your family all the best, Paulette and Matt Preserves: Spicy Kasundi $10 Apricot Worcestershire $10 Pepperberry Jelly $6.50 Pepperberry Salt $6.50 Makrut Lime and Chilli Salt $6.50 Wakame and Saltbush Salt $6.50 And if you need a tasty, tart syrup to go with your calming tipple at the end of the day we have Apricot and Bay Shrub and Banana Passionfruit and Kunzea Shrub, both rather good with some fizzy water, ice and a dash of gin. Greens and other veg by 11am on Saturday - but if you're heading past get in touch and we'll see if we can feed you at other times!! Plants - a fun range of perennial edibles. Lettuce, chard, parsley and more

02.01.2022 If you're keen to gamble a couple of bucks on a mild spring and an early zucchini or summer squash harvest then we have the plants for you! There will be a veritable edible jungle on our @salamancamarket stall on Saturday, and a smaller, but still great, selection on our farm gate stand as well (although eftpos will only be available at Salamanca). Succession is key with zucchini and summer squash, plant some now, some in November and more in late December and you can yank ou...t the first plants as they tire and have new ones hitting their stride. Head down to the market early, it opens at 8.30, when parking is easy, it finishes at 1.30 at the moment, so don't be late. If you've avoided the market in the past because of crowds now is the time for you to come back. We, and all of our fellow makers and growers are excited to be back and would love to see you! Please follow along to see where we'll be, Salamanca is fortnightly for us at the moment, but things may change.

02.01.2022 *No produce this weekend* Weve spent today at the beach, and will spend the weekend soaking up the last of the school holidays with the kids, so wont be stocking the stall this Saturday. If you are desperate for some green goodies please get in touch, I can answer messages and harvest on Tuesday. We will be putting all of our energy after this relaxing time into the most incredible spring yet - watch this space!!

02.01.2022 Last nights sunset salad. Now is the perfect time to plant salad greens, while the soil is cool but not cold, and keeping the watering up is an easy chore. Ill be here with the stall open and stocked with seedlings, eggs, produce and preserves by 11am. This beauty is ricciolina lettuce, it is sweet and tender, can be picked a leaf at a time to prolong harvest, well have it and a lot more delicious plants ready for you!

02.01.2022 Were planning this springs tomato seedlings and our mouths are already watering! 54 varieties - tall and short plants, tiny and huge fruit, in shades of red, orange, yellow, black and green, and plenty with pretty stripes too. There are hollow ones for stuffing, meaty ones for sauces, luscious ones for salads, sweet cherries for popping in your mouth, and rich little ones for drying. You can grow them in pots or gardens, with or without stakes, and we have plants that thriv...e in cool summers, others that like it hot. We dont like to rush them - plants put early into cold soil are often overtaken by those planted when its warmed, so plan for our full range in mid-October, but we will have some earlier for the gamblers and those with warm gardens. Do you have a favourite variety that youd like us to grow? All with no new plastic, no pesticides and in our herbicide-free nursery. And all alongside a brilliant variety of pumpkins, cucumbers, herbs, zucchini, greens and a ludicrous amount of other plants. See more

01.01.2022 Dear friends, the begging season is here! I've been so busy potting up that I didn't notice how few pots were in the shed. If you have any square forestry tubes lingering in your garage, or smallish round pots we'd be super grateful. If you have more than 100 and are on the route of our travels we can come by and collect and pay or trade you, or you can drop them at our farm gate any time, or our Salamanca stall this Saturday (hooray!), the orach in this picture will be on the stall, and the tomatoes aren't far behind. We have an excess of big pots I'll leave at our farm gate, along with a bucket of succulents and some out of date but probably fine seed packets for you to help yourself to, or please dm me if you have a lot and would like cash, plants or credit in exchange. Thank you!!