Avant Gardeners

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With lots of enthusiasm and very little know how, Emily and Maddie love chatting about gardening, often with a glass of wine or cocktail in hand. In each fortnightly episode, we speak to people who inspire us in the garden, in order to unearth some much needed knowledge.

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Sadie Chrestman - Fat Pig Farm

Sadie Chrestman didn't get into gardening until she was 40, but she's quickly made up for lost time. Sadie moved from inner-city Sydney to the Huon Valley in Tasmania, settling on a property called Puggle Farm, where she got stuck into everything from animal husbandry, admiring wood piles, and deep soil knowledge. Stepping it up a notch, Sadie, and her partner Matthew Evans, purchased a 70 acre property they named Fat Pig Farm, opening a market garden and setting up a restaurant. When one of the...

Oct 31, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Dimity May - Tiny Farm Tas

In this Episode we interview your friend and mine, Dimity May . Dimity's gateway drug to gardening was through market gardening, but she turned her attention to seedling growing just as the pandemic (remember that guy?) was just taking off, setting up Reid Tiny Farm in Canberra as a CSA model, for seedlings. In 2023, Dimity, her husband and two kids, made the move to Tasmania's Huon Valley, and since chatting with Dimity (she was our very first interviewee!), she's changed her business name to T...

Oct 17, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Pip Steele-Wareham Part 2 - Garden at Moorfield

Ep 03 - Welcome back Avant Gardeners! We bring you Part 2 of our chat with friend and rose-die-hard, Pip Steele-Wareham from @The_Garden_At_Moorfield . In this chat we explore her 150m (no, that is not a typo) naturalistic garden, and then go deep on roses - why she loves them, how to tend to them, selecting the right rose for you and beneficial plants to keep them healthy. If you didn't catch Part 1 of this chat, jump in now. This week .... We're drinking a most delish Sailor Seeks Horse Pinot....

Oct 03, 2023•45 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Pip Steele-Wareham Part 1 - Garden at Moorfield

Ep 02 - Avant Gardeners In this episode we give you Part 1 of our chat with our friend, and inspirational gardener, Pip Steele-Wareham who is doing magical things at her property Moorfield @The_Garden_At_Moorfield in Victoria. A lot of this week's chat is about her and her husbands Hugo's previous property Little Oak and the challenges and successes they had there. We speak about Pip's approach to gardening (find what you love, and grow that), her obsessions with soil, and if -nay, when - rhodod...

Sep 19, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Digging for treasure - Emily & Maddie

Hi, and welcome to Avant Gardeners. In this episode we give you an intro into the lives of Emily and Maddie, two friends who live, play and garden on Melukerdee country in Tasmania's Huon Valley, with varying success. Both have unexpectedly landed on properties, with vast gardens, and very little know how. In future episodes we'll be inteviewing others, but in this episode it's all about us. What we're drinking Merry Spiced Cherry Amaretto Sour (based on this , recipe but with home made cherry s...

Sep 06, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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