This week’s boxes include the last avocados of the season from Avoland Avocados; we started buying from Paul and Maria in 2016 when they started...
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Backyard Bounty all-Tasmanian Vegie box: 26th June
We’re pleased to have Mooreville Gardens’ model code eggs back again from July – but this week’s box actually includes one of a range of...
Backyard Bounty all-Tasmanian Vegie box: 19th June
This week’s boxes feature some heavy-hitting cultivars of some of Tasmania’s biggest crops. Packham’s Triumph is the highest selling fresh-market pear in Australia, developed unsurprisingly...
Backyard Bounty all-Tasmanian Vegie box: 12th June
This week’s boxes feature a classic winter alium, and the national emblem of Wales – the leek! Like spring onions, leeks don’t form a tight...
Backyard Bounty all-Tasmanian Vegie box: 5th June
This week we’re truly crossing the threshold into winter – and the weather certainly delivered for deliveries today! Richmond Farm have supplied parsnips and Brussels...
Backyard Bounty all-Tasmanian Vegie box: 29th May
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...
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...