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The West Is Red

by Roger Chao
04 May 2025

The West is red, the tweets are loud, the slogans reach the sky, The faithful cheer, their banners wave, the facts just roll on by. The greatest man to ever live - so modest, kind, and true! He tells us he alone can fix the mess we never knew. The...


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A degree of magnificence

by Fiona Stocker
04 May 2025

the grounds at Josef Chromy’s winery south of Launceston draw much from classical designs ...


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À LA FIONA: Robbie Brown’s

by Fiona Stocker
10 Jan 2025

The wind is blowing a Hobartian hooly off the mountain, and we walk the promenade at Kingston Beach with our clothes flattened against our bodies ...


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À LA JULIA: The summer zucchini glut

by Julia Matusik
10 Jan 2025

Is it really summer if you don’t have too many zucchini? ...



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À L A F I O N A: Festival farewell

by Fiona Stocker
22 Jun 2024

In 2014, I set up a stall selling farm produce at a tomato festival in Selbourne ...


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À la Fiona: Clarendon Arms

by Fiona Stocker
02 Jun 2024

When my Other Half and I first visited Tasmania on reconnaissance, we considered making Evandale home because of its pub ...


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À la Julia: Leading the pear revival

by Julia Matusik
02 Jun 2024

I’ve been monitoring the pears in the fruit bowl ...


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‘Tis the season for red wine

by Chris Champion
24 Dec 2023

There is no way known to man that one can improve on wine.


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Just peachy

by Julia Matusik
24 Dec 2023

I’m old enough to remember peaches that tasted sublime ...

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Lost and found in the dunes

by Fiona Stocker
24 Dec 2023

When we pack for Bridport, I imagine Croquet Beach filled with sunshine ...

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The Stillwater experience

by Don Defenderfer
05 Nov 2023

... sleeping in a loft next to an old mill by a river ...

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À LA JULIA: Hemp is about to boom

by Julia Matusik
14 Jan 2023

Forget its association with marijuana - hemp is an industry in the making ...

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Huon apples

by Julia Matusik
22 Jul 2023

The only apple trees growing on our property in Geeveston were planted were planted by us in 2021 ...

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Persia’s Pantry

by Pen Tayler
12 Feb 2023

Arad Niksefat is at a festival in Woodbridge where he is selling his own produce. I buy some Tira Syrup from him ...

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