Author: Lucinda Giblett
How to hunt a truffle in France (and it’s not what you think)
Truffles in Manjimup are hunted with the help of a specially trained canine. Sometimes they don’t make the cut: it’s true, dogs sometimes flunk out of truffle school. There are tales too, of truffle pigs “helping out” with harvest in Europe, sometimes taking out truffles, or worse, a finger in […]
Highlights from Girls’ Trip, helping girls connect, have fun and grow
[Girls Trip] helps encourage creativity, and a broader range of thinking for parents and daughters. It raises confidence in both as well. – Linda Russell, mother What do you long for, for a girl you care about? That she has confidence to speak up, and show up, in whatever way […]
WA artist Lori Pensini a national finalist with her “stellar violets” portrait featuring Lucinda
| by Sonia Kohlbacher | A Western Australian artist known for her breathtaking portraits of women and stunning landscape portrayals has been shorted-listed for one of the most prestigious women’s art prizes in Australia. Lori Pensini’s delicate portrait of Lucinda Giblett was a finalist in the Portia Geach Memorial Art […]
Fervor Fever | Pop Up Truffle Degustation in a secret garden
Truffle season in Manjimup has begun as the last colours of autumn fall to the ground. There’s a kindness in sporadic winter sunlight, relief in the rain. A fire in the corner crackles and pops. Our wheelbarrow is full of promised wood, and us? We’re sweeping the hearth in preparation […]
how to move a heritage electric trolleybus you can’t drive within 48 hours
It started with a 5pm text from Drakey, who runs Middlesex Mill just down the road. “Hi. Just noticed this old tram bus on Grays. Thought you might be interested. Problem is the auction ends in 2 hours!” I couldn’t help myself, of course. It was a beautiful old thing, […]
Recipe: The Ultimate Garlic Paste
Lara McCall of the amazing Burnside Organic Farm changed my life for the better the day she shared this recipe with me. Our fridge bulges with jars of this paste. Make enough to last a year, harvest your garlic, save some to plant, some to roast whole, make paste with […]
The Weedy One: Diego’s Fantastic Foraging Feast
Bundanon’s Spring Festival – “Siteworks 2015” On a Saturday in September we celebrated Spring with a bunch of art-lovers at Bundanon’s Siteworks 2015. The properties at Bundanon, and Riversdale were gifted to the Australian people by Arthur and Yvonne Boyd in 1993. The drive into the property winds through thick, […]
Inviting women to bring our creative gifts home in the Wheatbelt, with the Liebe Group
”It was a cold, blustery day when we arrived, only to be warmed through to the cockles by the Metcalf family’s boundless hospitality. Deb and Simon Metcalf are long time farmers in Wongan Hills. Wongan means whispering, and atop the beautiful Mt O’Brien, the wind did blow. Wongan, wind, wheat […]
Library Love Songs
My caring local librarian sent home an unsolicited book for me the other day: Inspired by Light & Land: Designers and Makers in Western Australia 1829-1969. Why yes, I am inspired by just that, Life and Land, I thought smiling to myself as I thumbed through the pages, uncovering the […]