By now, any lingering doubts about the arrival of the silly season should be well and truly extinguished. The coming of a smattering of fresh cherries from All Things Cherry is truly the harbinger of the summer season. We love cherries and everything about their sweet, tender, evocative form. We’re stoked to be welcoming Westerway Berries back into the fold for their seasonal run too.
The amazing folks at Oldway Farm have plenty of stock of their incredible beef, pork, pork sausage and handmade bacon for your upcoming Christmas feasts. You would be remiss not to get around Oldway Farm, we had the pleasure of cooking two whole scotch fillets on the charcoal grill for our annual volunteer and stallholder celebration last week. Words cannot adequately convey how incredible those cuts of beef were. If you want beef, you want Oldway Farm Beef. Believe.
We are very pleased to be welcoming the Women’s Friendship Group to the market in our community engagement space this week. The WFG is a community organisation providing support to the women of the South Sudanese and other immigrant communities in Launceston. Poignantly, they will be selling re-usable face masks for you to wear with pride, an important accessory as Tasmania moves toward open borders and tighter regulations around mask-wearing at the market. Such a wonderful win-win-win of an initiative.
It is the last week for crowd favourites Windara Orchard! They’ll be returning sometime in March 2022, so if you’re after apples you’d better get down to the market pronto. It is your second last chance before Christmas to pick yourself up some of Matt’s amazing Strellyfield duck. Duck, already? I hear you ask. Yes indeed! Confit those bad boys now and they’ll be spotty dog for Christmas lunch. Keep an eye out for our tips and tricks for the perfect confit duck leg in the recipes this week.
Speaking of swansongs, this week we are bidding a bittersweet farewell to Bryony of The Tea Equation, who has gone all the way from conceptualising her business, growing it, managing it and ultimately selling it for a new family to love and cherish. While it is very sad to see her go, we can’t thank Bryony enough for her contributions to the Harvest family over the years and wish her all the very best in the next chapter of her life. Congrats Bryony!
And, we have a debutant on our SOMA stage this week! We’re super excited to be welcoming the funk soul brother stylings of Disco Duma for the wake-up set, followed by the effervescent swing dancers. Yay!
Rolling the arm over the Harvest wicket this week are:
| 41 Degrees South |
| A Pinch of Tasmania |
| All Things Cherry |
| Apiece |
| Artisa |
| Bioberries |
| Brady’s Lookout Cider |
| Bruny Island Oysters |
| Coronea Grove |
| Delicious Little Things |
| Della Valle Gelato |
| Elgaar Farm & The Grain Family |
| Felds Farm |
| Franks Char |
| George Town Seafoods |
| Hazelbrae Hazelnuts |
| Hillwood Fresh Food Co |
| Honey Tas |
| Kabul Vegie Delights |
| Laos Fresh Farm |
| Lentara Grove |
| Meat Bread Cheese |
| Metcalf Distillery |
| Mount Gnomon Farm |
| Mr B & T Mushrooms & Eden Green Garden |
| New Norfolk Distillery |
| Oldway Farm |
| One On The Slide |
| Our Patch Pet Food |
| Plants Direct |
| Provenance Coffee |
| Red Cow Organics |
| Ritual Coffee |
| Sandy’s Sourdough |
| Seoul Food |
| Seven Sheds |
| Sheffield Berry Gardens |
| Small Grain |
| Southern Sky Cheese |
| Steve’s Vegies |
| Strelleyfield Farm |
| Sweet Wheat |
| Takin It Home |
| Tas Juice Press |
| Tasmanian Natural Tomato and Garlic |
| Tassie Hemp Shop |
| Taste of Tam O’Shanter |
| The Green Flower Farm |
| The Tea Equation |
| Thirlstane Gardens |
| Three Peaks Organics |
| Village Olive Grove |
| Wanderer Mead |
| Wanderlust |
| West Bee Honey |
| West Tamar Fungi |
| Westerway Berry Farm |
| Windara Orchard |
Summer has hit, and we couldn’t be more excited for the season.
See you at the market! x
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