The north-west of Tasmania has some distinct advantages for farming – rich volcanic soils, a moderate but warm climate – and as is often the...
Archive for category: vegie boxes
Backyard Bounty all-Tasmanian Vegie box: 19th February
This week’s box almost feels like a different season to last week’s! Fruit supplements and boxes include freshly picked certified organic Gravenstein apples from Mark...
Backyard Bounty all-Tasmanian Vegie box: 12th February
This week’s boxes feature a flood of baby salad and cooking greens, washed, picked and ready to eat or cook with! Organic baby silverbeet from...
Backyard Bounty all-Tasmanian Vegie box: 5th February
Cucurbits – a family of fruiting plants whose edible members include zucchini, pumpkin and cucumbers – prefer warm growing conditions, but unlike tomatoes, capsicum and...
Backyard Bounty all-Tasmanian Vegie box: 29th January
Canes Stonefruit at Franklin is a Tasmanian institution – David and Diane pick all the fruit on their orchard with exacting standards, and while we’re...
Backyard Bounty all-Tasmanian Vegie box: 22nd January
During our break in January we visited four of our growers in the north of Tasmania, and all four are represented in this week’s box!...
Backyard Bounty all-Tasmanian Vegie box: 15th January
It’s amazing how much changes when you take a couple of weeks off… this week’s boxes look quite different to our last boxes in December!...
Backyard Bounty all-Tasmanian Vegie box: 18th December
2020 marks the seventh year that we’ve been operating our all-Tasmanian vegie box service, and whilst it started out largely like every other year, back...
Backyard Bounty all-Tasmanian Vegie box: 11th December
This week’s boxes feature cherries from Cherries Tasmania, an 85 hectare cherry orchard in Old Beach, established in 2003 by Nic and Traci Hansen. Cherries...
Backyard Bounty all-Tasmanian Vegie box: 4th December
This week’s boxes feature a bounty of berries – raspberries from Lucaston Park Orchard in $20 and $40 boxes, strawberries from Hillwood Berries in the...