Building their eateries brought them together and now two Hahndorf restaurateurs are celebrating being among the best in the State together. The Original Hahndorf Pizza House and The White House Adelaide Hills were both honored at the Restaurant and Catering SA 2012 Awards for Excellence on Monday night. Sid Dinkoudis’ business won best pizza outlet, while cafe ...
Forget the lamb roast and the scotch fillet steak, one Hills winery has found a feral food match to complement its new release reds. Braised camel, wood oven roasted goat and wild rabbit will grace the menu at biodynamic winery Ngeringa’s Winter Reds celebration this Sunday. The feast will not only showcase the winery’s latest releases, ...
SA needs to protect its “finite high quality agricultural land” to ensure the State’s food security, according to an Adelaide Hills Council submission on sustainable farming practices. The submission was approved recently by elected members and sent to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Sustainable Farming Practices. The select committee was initiated by Hills MP Ivan Venning, the ...
A national program teaching children to grow, harvest, prepare and share fresh and seasonal food was officially opened at two Hills schools last month by Australian culinary icon Maggie Beer. The Barossa cook and food producer formally opened the Birdwood and Littlehampton primary schools’ kitchens and gardens in late June in her role as SA ambassador ...
In the end barely a crumb separated the top two cakes in the Adelaide Hills Farmers Market’s inaugural contest. Home bakers and stallholders put their cookery skills to the test to whip up about 20 sweet delights showcasing some of the local produce on offer at the market. The fruits of their labor were judged on Saturday ...
The Lobethal Community Association has embraced the sustainable lifestyle, sponsoring a bi-monthly produce swap for residents’ home grown fruit and vegetables. The swap is run by the association’s new Sustainability Committee and has been growing in popularity since it began earlier this year. “The committee has a foundation of three ethics – care of the Earth and ...
Hills eateries are proving to be strong competition on the State’s food stage, qualifying as finalists in 12 classes of SA’s top restaurant honors. Eleven of the region’s restaurants and cafes have made the shortlist for the 2012 Restaurant and Catering SA awards, chosen from a record field of 280 entries. They will represent the Hills in ...
Up to 2000 products made or grown in the Adelaide Hills could be on the shelves of a Romeos supermarket at any one time. And now they will be easier to find for customers at the retail group’s four Stirling, Aldgate and Mitcham stores, thanks to a new campaign encouraging shoppers to buy local. Hills products are ...
Bridgewater Greengrocer owner Silvana Codr knows most of the farmers behind the fresh produce she puts on her shelves. The tomatoes, she points out, come from a grower in Murray Bridge, the eggs from a Macclesfield farm and the milk from Lobethal based Tweedvale. What she can’t source direct from local growers she buys in daily from ...
That no season is the same as the last one is one of the few certainties in farming. What Australian growers produce and what it sells for are highly sensitive to the vagaries of the weather, market supply and demand and the performance of the Australian dollar. For fruit and vegetable growers, this year has delivered an ...
