This week we’re celebrating some smaller growers: The chillies in $30 and $40 boxes this week come from Justin, who has a quarter acre block...
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Backyard Bounty all-Tasmanian Vegie box: 22nd May
Potatoes don’t grow particularly well in winter, but are generally looked on as a winter vegetable as the main crop is often dug in autumn...
Backyard Bounty all-Tasmanian Vegie box: 15th May
The modern carrot owes its existence to the trade routes known as the “silk road”, and is a genuinely international affair. Wild carrots, which had...
Backyard Bounty all-Tasmanian Vegie box: 8th May
This week’s $30 and $40 boxes include celeriac (also apparently known as “knob celery”, which I’m thinking would be a fun name to popularise…), which...
Backyard Bounty all-Tasmanian Vegie box: 1st May
Pumpkin – like many other vegetables we enjoy today – is a “New World” crop, meaning that it didn’t arrive in Europe until the second...
Backyard Bounty all-Tasmanian Vegie box: 24th April
In a cold to temperate climate like Tasmania’s, the natural fruit season is fairly short – generally strawberries begin in spring, followed by other berries...
Backyard Bounty all-Tasmanian Vegie box: 17th April
King Edward potatoes – as the name hints at – were first developed as a variety around the time of the coronation of King Edward...
Backyard Bounty all-Tasmanian Vegie box: 9th April
Getting boxes out a day early this week presented plenty of logistical challenges – generally I start liaising with growers on Monday each week to...
Backyard Bounty all-Tasmanian Vegie box: 3rd April
Southern Fields, based in Forcett, are one of a fairly limited number of large-scale vegetable growers in the south of Tasmania – there are fewer...
Backyard Bounty all-Tasmanian Vegie box: 27th March
With such a huge increase in demand this week, we’re pleased that we’ve still been able to include some special items in boxes. $20 and...