Straight To The Source

No hassle, no chop, no peel, no mess! What's not to like about a smoothie made from healthy delicious real food that takes seconds to blend? Naked Blendz is an award-winning South Australian company, and they think possibly the only business of its kind in the world, that offers a healthy smoothie solution using locally sourced ingredients served up in a fully compostable cup - all you need to do...

From little things, big - and diverse - things grow! Proudly flying the South Australian flag, Woolmore’s Fine Foods is a small family business producing a gourmet range of biscuits, balsamic vinegars and preserved lemons.  It’s an eclectic product mix but that’s no surprise given this business was born from an intergenerational love of good, home cooked food. From an accidental side hustle, Woolm...

Three years ago Shawnee Fox was a mature aged student embarking on her BSc in Aquaculture. Today, she is at the helm of her own newly created and internationally expanding business. Southern Kuya is the result of Shawnee’s aquaculture thesis, the company taking a no waste, sustainable & environmental approach to gourmet seafood snack foods. Aimed at the health conscious wishing to replace meat...

The Mediterranean isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think of South Australia but perhaps it should. Surprising as it sounds, the year-round temperatures on the state’s Fleurieu Peninsula mirror those of the famed European playground making it a perfect climate for growing almonds. There is a little-known but long history of almond growing in the district and that tradition is not o...

They say necessity is the mother of invention, a concept Pip and Skeet Lawson of Pinnaroo Farms in South Australia are on board with after a series of unforeseen challenges led them to develop an innovative new product which has become a remarkable commercial success. In this next episode of our special South Australia series, Pip chats to Lucy & Tawnya about their focus on regenerative farmin...

In the next episode of our South Australia special series, Tawnya and Lucy chat to   Roberto Cardone, a well-known restaurateur & entrepreneur and one of the partners behind Cucina Classica. Raised by Italian immigrants, Roberto is best known for creating the award-winning Italian restaurant brand, Cibo. Now, taking his experience and entrepreneurial skills as a restaurateur he has partnered w...

In the second of our special South Australian series, Tawnya & Lucy chat to Rebecca Paris, the founder and managing director of the Australian Native Food Co. Rebecca is on a mission to make a difference by creating unique, flavoursome and nutritious foods using Australian native ingredients, whilst supporting local Indigenous communities through employment, training and career pathways. Rebec...

In the first of our South Australia special series we chat to Lucy Dodd, a fourth generation farmer who has returned to the family farm on the Limestone Coast of South Australia. Bringing her passion for creating and sustaining regional communities through sustainable agriculture and connecting consumers with farmers, Lucy has taken on the the challenge of creating a new family business brand - Lo...

Farmer’s Footprint Australia launched in Byron Bay, NSW last month. Tawnya and Lucy caught up with Blair Beattie, Executive Director of Australia’s chapter, to find out more about this national not-for-profit organisation’s vision of telling the stories of Australian farmers working towards and transitioning into regenerative farming principles. The Farmer’s Footprint initi...

It’s not every day a never before seen ingredient hits the chef’s food option palette but that’s precisely what Glenn Dibbin and the Leeuwin Coast have brought to market in 2022. Join Lucy and Tawnya as they go straight to the source with long time shellfish farmer Glenn to find out about the extraordinary Akoya, a sustainable new shellfish which he and partners Leeuwin Coast hop...

Join Lucy and Tawnya in conversation with chef Mishy Powell, founder of Naturally Sauced - her handmade sauce business.  She chats about her career in the kitchen travelling around the world, the challenges of developing an authentic product that is environmentally sustainable, and how the farmers’ market community and sourcing fresh ingredients are her driving forces. Episode links: Re...

Join Tawnya and Lucy in conversation with Pip & Skeet Lawson from Pinnaroo Farms. Pip & Skeet grow, sprout & mill their own grain to create nutritious flours. But that wasn’t always the case - through a series of challenges Pip & Skeet turned adversity into an opportunity inspired by the ancient art of sprouting.   Episode links: Join the Straight To The Source community...

Join Lucy and Tawnya in conversation with Mark Henry, mechanical engineer and the entrepreneurial founder of Solidteknics, Australia’s ONLY manufacturer of cookware. Mark shares his journey from uni student to creating two global brands, Furi Knives and Solidteknics, driven not by monetary goals but by his desire to leave behind a design-legacy.    Episode links: Join the Straight...

Join Lucy and Tawnya in conversation with Matt Stone and Jo Barrett, two chefs challenging the status quo in a quest to unravel the big question around living and eating more sustainably. We chat to them about living in Future Food System, a self-sustaining, zero waste house in Federation Square, Melbourne; how it changed their perspective of the potential for each and every one of us to live more...

Join Tawnya and Lucy in conversation with Fiona Aveyard, a 5th generation sheep farmer from Central NSW who has developed a family recipe into a single-origin Aussie favourite - a lamb sausage roll - that not only tastes delicious but adds a resilience revenue stream to a traditional farming business.    Episode links:   Join the Straight To The Source community here .   Find O...

Join Tawnya and Lucy in conversation with Sue Heward, the entrepreneurial founder of Singing Magpie Produce who has established a successful e-commerce business using the fruit from her family’s 100-year-old orchards in the Riverland region of South Australia to create delicious, high-quality seasonal products for consumers who care where their food comes from. Episode links: Join the Straig...

Join Tawnya and Lucy in conversation with the inimitable Alice Zaslavsky - cookbook author, broadcaster, tastemaker, radio host, producer, wife and mother - to find out what drives her passion to make food accessible for all, whatever the age!   Episode links: Join the Straight To The Source community here . Alice's website at Alice in Frames . Phenomenom: a free digital toolki...