After 45 years living on their Grose Vale property an hour out of Sydney in the foothills of the Blue Mountains, The Maguire family is passionate about their product, way of life and sharing with others. As founding members of Hawkesbury Harvest, a group committed to increasin...

“Living history” is how many people describe John Watkins’ mandarin and prawn trawling business at Wisemans Ferry on the Hawkesbury River north west of Sydney. Watkins Orchard has been a family-owned and managed operation since 1836 with the current orchard established at Wise...

The day Robert and Tracey Williams found syringes in the laneway behind their Melbourne home was the day they made up their minds to go bush and forge a new career in the countryside. That was four years ago and the couple haven’t looked back, but finding their dream block of ...

Mark Bancroft swapped a career managing a university bookshop in Bathurst, in central western NSW, to managing a walnut and chestnut enterprise just outside of Sydney and he’s delighted with his seachange. Kookootonga Walnut and Chestnut Farm is located on the Bells Line of Ro...

Burnt Orange is a café and retail combination that has proved a winning formula in its first year of operation on Sydney’s lower north shore. Opened last September in Middle Head Rd, Mosman, the shop cum café is located in a 1930s converted sandstone golf clubhouse with sweepi...

Damian and Emma Amery’s Berkshire pig operation in South Australia began as a sideline but has grown to be a substantial part of their farming operation. Schu Am’s free range pork is well regarded in its home’s state – and outside, having collected a medal at the recent Delici...

Eric Robinson and his wife and business partner Monica set themselves ambitious targets when they launched The Other Chef brand five years ago – now one of them has just been realised. The couple have just leased a factory about 20 minutes from their home and are about to put ...

Marketing an unknown (to Australians) exotic new fruit can be a long and laborious process – just ask Sydney’s Helen Hill. Helen and her husband Bruce are partners in an Australian venture aimed at growing the Bolivian native fruit Achacha in sufficient quantities to be a comm...

Redgate Farm’s Charlie Scott has spent more than 30 years working on the research and selective breeding of quail – the result being what he believes is the heaviest table quail sold worldwide. Charlie took the species, renowned for being small and bony, and developed it into ...

Far north Queensland will this week join the growing list of Australian regions that celebrate their unique produce when the inaugural Taste Paradise launches at Palm Cove on Friday. Federal funding in the form of a grant has kick-started the festival which organisers anticipa...

Courage, determination, perseverance – all apply in equal measure to Richard Mohan and Margie Cronin’s single-handed efforts to create a niche market in Australia for Pimientos de Padron peppers. Pimientos de Padron are small green peppers (five to seven centimeters long) whic...

Tasmanian couple, Nicky and Terry Noonan are acknowledged as the pioneers of saffron growing in Australia – an odyssey which owes everything to their decision two decades ago to cook an authentic paella for friends visiting from the mainland. The city couple had embarked on a ...

Blackmore Wagyu Beef founders, David and Julie Blackmore, have achieved extensive worldwide market penetration with their product - but the next 12 months could be one of their best yet. When OnFood contacted David, he’d just arrived home after a successful trip to Los Angeles...

There are many berry farms vying for the attention of tourists and locals in the NSW Southern Highlands but Cuttaway Creek raspberry farm is the standout. Before 2002, owner Dave Fenn and his wife Nicki were city dwellers. Dave held down a high-powered job in Sydney working in...

They are not commercially grown and they are so exclusive you will never find them in a supermarket but once you’ve eaten one, every other tomato will taste like a fake. Andrew Word and his business partner, Jill McCalman, moved to central Victoria four years ago and embarked ...