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Our market farm provides fresh produce to local businesses and people.

06/04/2026

Autumn is a great time on the farm.
The pace eases off, the colours start to turn, and what’s coming out of the farm shifts with the season.

Our Feast will start with a farm tour, looking at what’s happening at this time of year and our farming practices before settling in for a long table lunch built around what we’re harvesting right now.

A relaxed afternoon, good food, and a chance to sit down together.

Sunday 17 May
12–3pm
Gardners Bay Farm

Tickets via our website

09/03/2026

A small but powerful helper in the brassica patch.

These tiny white cocoons are from parasitic wasps that target cabbage white caterpillars. The wasp lays its eggs inside the caterpillar, and when the larvae emerge they spin these small cocoons on the leaf before becoming adult wasps.

Within a few days dozens of new wasps will hatch and continue searching the garden for caterpillars.

It’s one of the many quiet processes happening in the background that helps keep the farm in balance. Nature doing the work.

A good reminder that sometimes the best thing a farmer can do is simply leave things alone.

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18/02/2026

Slow start to the season, but the eggplants are finally doing what they’re meant to do.

Feels like they’ve sat there for ages, thinking about starting and now they have 😊. Strong leaves and first decent fruit setting. Keep growing little buddies 🤞

04/02/2026

Freshly pulled onions, now getting the slow treatment.

After harvest we cure them for about a week under the shade of the quince trees. Good airflow, no direct sun, plenty of time for the skins to dry down and the necks to seal.

It’s one of those simple, old-school steps that makes a huge difference to storage life and flavour. No rushing it, just letting nature and patience do their thing before these head off to to be hung in the shed.

19/01/2026

This block’s had a pretty serious glow-up.

About six months ago we pulled out the asparagus crowns and then tarped the whole block to let it reset. The tarp starved out a heap of w**ds, broke down old roots, and gave soil life a chance to rebalance without being constantly disturbed.

Now it’s onto its next chapter, the next crop is pumpkins with a green manure growing around them.

The green manure is doing some heavy lifting for us.
Shading out w**ds and stopping the seed bank from getting a free run.
Living roots are feeding soil microbes every day.
Adding organic matter when it’s slashed and broken down.
Helping build better structure so water and roots move easily.

The pumpkins get space, nutrients, and protection.
The soil gets fed instead of flogged.
And the block keeps evolving instead of wearing out.

Every step, from tarping to planting to green manure, has a job to do for what comes next.

03/12/2025

A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us for our Spring Feast on Sunday.

It was a true pleasure to welcome you to the farm, share a long afternoon around the table, and serve food grown and cooked with care. These events only come to life because of the people who show up with curiosity, good conversation, and a willingness to slow down and enjoy the farm with us.

We’re grateful for your support of what we do here at Gardners Bay Farm, and for choosing to spend your Sunday with us. Days like this remind us why we love bringing people together through food, the seasons, and this landscape we’re lucky to call home.

Thank you again for being part of it. We look forward to welcoming you back to the farm soon. Shout out to Kamel and Ruth for the photos:)

28/11/2025

A little garlic update.

We pulled up a bed today and while some bulbs have definitely been held back by the rust, the majority are looking pretty good. A bit of a relief after a tricky season.

Right now the garlic is laid out to cure in the sun with plenty of airflow. This first stage helps dry the outer skins and tighten the wrappers so the bulbs store well. After a few days, we’ll move the heads into the shed to finish curing hung in bundles so the necks can fully dry and the skins become papery.

It’s a slow, simple process, but it’s what makes the difference between garlic that lasts a couple of weeks and garlic that carries you through the year.

22/11/2025

We had the absolute pleasure of welcoming Maeve O’Meara from Gourmet Food Safari back to Gardners Bay Farm this week. Maeve visits us every year, and it’s always a highlight. She brought an incredible group with her, full of curiosity and good conversation, and it was a joy to host them among the beds.

A special thanks as well to Tim Jones from Wild Mother for joining us and sharing his craft. Days like this remind us why we love opening the farm gates to good people for good food, and the chance to connect over what we grow and make.

We’re already looking forward to Maeve’s next visit. l

09/11/2025

Rust showing up in the garlic beds this week. From left to right: elephant garlic with only light rust, young onions in the middle looking clean, and our TAS Purple garlic on the right showing quite a bit of rust. It’s a good reminder of how differently varieties respond to the same conditions. Rust is common in cool, damp Tasmanian springs, we’ll keep managing airflow and some KNF foliage sprays.

01/11/2025

Join us for a Long Table Lunch at Gardners Bay Farm.
A relaxed afternoon of good food, connection, and community.

We’ll be cooking with what’s fresh from the farm and local producers, serving up seasonal dishes made to share.

Come slow down, gather around the table,
and celebrate the bounty of spring with us at the farm.

Bookings available through our website — gardnersbayfarm.com.au

29/10/2025

A tiny w**d has found its home inside one of our oyster shells 🐚

We add oyster shells into our Johnson Su bio-reactor composting system as a slow-release calcium boost, thanks to their high calcium carbonate content they help improve structure and give long-term nutrient support.

Sometimes a shell from the compost ends up in a garden bed and voilà: a little green sprout pops up, finding its niche in our regenerative patch.

It’s moments like this that remind us how interconnected everything is.

Here’s to finding beauty in the small things, and using what nature gives (or we repurpose) to build healthy soil systems. 🌱

Address

2 Coal Mine Road
Gardners Bay, TAS
7112

Website

http://gardnersbayfarm.com.au/

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