Happening
stuff in 2009…
Maggie’s Place is open Saturdays and Sundays and public holiday Mondays, 9am – 4.30 pm. Contact Maggie: 0429 055 099 or E: mpedmonds@bigpond.com
The farmstall is located at the corner of West Swan and Gnangara Roads in the Swan Valley – just IN Gnangara Road.
THE VALUE OF BEING A LOCOVORE
Talk by Maggie Edmonds at:
The Yanchep Festival of Green Ideas
Friday, 30 October 2009
Good evening !.Special thanks to Dr. Ian Martinus and Yanchep Beach Economic Development for including me in this exciting concept which will highlight the progress of the Yanchep Beach Joint Venture.
For my sins, I am a Farmer – or Farmer-ess. My husband and I have 64 acres in Gingin where we grow passionfruit, wildflowers and olives. In 2010 we will re-locate to Bindoon and grow mainly citrus. My husband has the horticultural knowledge and I am the go-fer. I have also developed quite a few value added products, including passionfruit juice, pulp, spread, paste and flavoured olive oils and lake salts.
I was lucky enough to be made WA Rural Woman of the Year in 2008 and runner-up in Australia. My main focus from that Award was to champion small producers. This I have done in my farmstall, Maggie’s Place @ Edgecombe Bros. in the Swan Valley.This is open week-ends (IN Gnangara, corner of West Swan Road) and is my central LOCOVORE outlet !
Mark and I have always been LOCOVORES – even before that clever person thought up the description of: eat from around you; eat in season; eat fresh. We have been Locovores because we have lived in the country, where you can’t pop into a shop EVERY day, wasting petrol and time…where the local shop is an hour away… and where we are too bloody busy to saddle our brains with remembering to buy a carton of milk EVERY day. Do your shopping once a week and free up your brain for more important things ! And, GROW YOUR OWN – or at least try – even if its only a parsley plant or a lemon tree. The sheer pleasure of eating something you have grown or produced beats ANY feeling in the world.
This Festival of Green Ideas ties in with being a Locovore. Why wouldn’t you eat what is in season? If it is not in season in WA, it will have either been grown outside the State or overseas. It will have been picked under-ripe and will have used up so many air miles it doesn’t bear thinking about it and it will be VERY DEAD – no nutrients – probably just a floppy replica of its once fresh and pert self.
As the authors of the just-out 2nd Edition of The Food Lovers’ Guide to Perth advise – shop seasonally. If you need recipes to help with this – buy a new cookbook and get stuck in. The Food Lovers’ Guide is a great reference book – you would surprised how many good shops and markets there are in and around Perth !
My customers at Maggie’s Place are so enthusiastic about the freshness of the produce I bring them. I feel so privileged to be offering the produce grown locally around Edgecombe’s and around me in Gingin. These include: baby carrots, these new season peaches and nectarines – THE FIRST OF THE SEASON – broccoli, lettuce, leeks, beetroot, parsnips, spring onions and spinach. The growers don’t hear the praise for their wonderful produce – but my customers are generous with praise – as they know it is fresh. I collect from 3pm on a Friday and by 8am on a Saturday I am selling their produceMy customers at Maggie’s Place are so enthusiastic about the freshness of the produce I bring them. I feel so privileged to be offering the produce grown locally around Edgecombe’s and around me in Gingin. These include: baby carrots, these new season peaches and nectarines – THE FIRST OF THE SEASON – broccoli, lettuce, leeks, beetroot, parsnips, spring onions and spinach. The growers don’t hear the praise for their wonderful produce – but my customers are generous with praise – as they know it is fresh. I collect from 3pm on a Friday and by 8am on a Saturday I am selling their produce
My customers at Maggie’s Place are so enthusiastic about the freshness of the produce I bring them. I feel so privileged to be offering the produce grown locally around Edgecombe’s and around me in Gingin. These include: baby carrots, these new season peaches and nectarines – THE FIRST OF THE SEASON – broccoli, lettuce, leeks, beetroot, parsnips, spring onions and spinach. The growers don’t hear the praise for their wonderful produce – but my customers are generous with praise – as they know it is fresh. I collect from 3pm on a Friday and by 8am on a Saturday I am selling their produce.
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