It’s autumn again, my favourite time of year. I love the changes in the light, the cooler mornings with dew on the grass and mist rising from the dams, the hazy sunsets, the flocks of starlings turning and shining through the air. Our young espaliered apples trees are giving us boxes of heritage apples; Ribston pippins, Geeveston Fannies, Sturmers, Beauty Of Bath, a few huge Blenheim Orange, and more ripening. We have been picking blackberries, bottling, making sauce. The garden keeps on giving tomatoes, so many beautiful zucchinis to pickle, and jars of basil pesto. Each year the garden improves, I find more time to put in to it, and we are rewarded like so many with beautiful fresh vegies and experiences like the smell of black currant bushes as you hunt for the fruit, self-seeded zinnias taking over the carrots, a parsnip gone to seeds that is as high as the sweet corn, and the odd but delicious potato cucumber.
And autumn also means hot cross buns, and Easter. We will be making these organic, sourdough, wood fired little buns for the month of March. We use Victorian-grown, organic dried fruit, freshly milled stoneground Biodynamic wheat, organic butter, milk and eggs, a little spice and lemon zest. Completely hand made. It’s so great to see the excitement generated by the kids for taking one to school for lunch as a treat, or toasting them on the end of a stick over a camp fire. They’ll be at our usual stockists and farmers markets until Easter. If you would like fresh buns for Easter, please order through one of our stockists, or contact us.
We’re also rolling rolling oats and grains for our organic porridge mix, and this year it contains biodynamic barley as well as oats, spelt and rye. Soaked over night, and cooked until creamy with milk the next morning, it’s delicious and nutritious and can have an endless variety of toppings.
Apple, Oat and Sultana Loaves are back for the autumn too, a lovely loaf toasted with butter or on a cheese platter.
This week end we will be at Coal Creek Farmers Market, with our organic, wood fired, stoneground sourdough, hot cross buns, and other goodies. Stella and I will be there to help fulfill your bready needs for the week, and Greg will head out on deliveries to Grow Lightly, udder and hoe, Rusty Windmill, Lamezleighs, Healing Leaves, Paddlewheel, Meeniyan IGA, Meeniyan Pantry and Cellar, Jacican, Baw Baw Food Hub, and also Chapmans Butchery, now stocking our bread in Inverloch. We hope to see you around the traps somewhere!
