The Wild Gardner

02/09/2024

Botanica Festival look out!! These cakes are just perfect for sharing with a friend.

Native Raspberry, Red Bottlebrush & Sweet White Clover Seed with Davidson Plum and Raspberry Buttercream
Spiced Chocolate Medlar with Choc Medlar Buttercream
Elderflower with Elderberry Buttercream

You can find this Saturday and Sunday at the National Botanic Gardens, Canberra.

30/08/2024

Trying to decide my flavours for next weekend’s Botanica Festival in Canberra. What are some of your all time favourites?

27/08/2024

Look out Canberra!!

26/08/2024

Our local market is looking for its new owner. It’s time for me to move on. What a great three years. 😍. Reach out if you are interested. More information in the post attached.

We are still on the hunt for someone or a group of someones to take over our special community market.

There is no cost $, it’s not for sale. We created the market out of community need and it’s it time for me to step away and focus on a new role. You can decide how often you run. You can decide where and when. It’s yours!

The Snowy Community Market come with:
- branding ownership
- three massive vinyl market signs
- social media accounts, including a private stallholders only account and professional stall images (Nicole McLeod Photography)
- email account
- full list of stallholders from the last three years and certificates of currency
- online booking system set up through Issimo Markets (free to use and the team are incredibly helpful and quick to respond)
- I am also willing to stay on for a while in the background to operate admin or support you in using it if you would like to keep the online infrastructure. Or not. It’s totally up to you.
- Support with navigating public events on council and private lands
- Support in legal responsibilities for events and stallholders
- Support for operating fundraising events involving alcohol.

I’ve learned so much in the last three years, I’d love to be able to pass that knowledge along to help keep community events like this alive. I get asked by locals everyday if I’ve found someone to take over - that it’s such a fantastic event and it would be a real shame for the community to lose it.

Reach out if you want to have a chat.
0404021434
[email protected]

22/08/2024

I cannot wait to ride these trails!!!

31/07/2024

This weekend’s flavours. Elderberry. Rosehip. Quince. Apple cider. Elderflower/Lemon/Lilac. Bon Appetit

31/07/2024

It’s time to present my 4th of 4 Snowy Foodie blog categories, the « Terroir Stories »!

In this group of articles and recipes, I closely examine food and where it comes from. Living in an agricultural and viticultural region inspired my food photography and storytelling adventure. All I have learned and am still learning from growers, makers, producers and cooks has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. I’ve always been a « gastronome » enthusiast as places I lived in Québec province are hotspots for terroir foodies, but discovering a different one in the Snowy Valleys, working with it and encouraging local eating got me on my « X ».

And to go back to the « Terroir » word. There is no English translation for it, and it is often associated with French wines, where the term comes from. In Québec, we call local produce « produit du terroir » and that includes any small farm produce or product made from fruit, nuts, grains and veggies, and also animal products. The climate and soil component, the geography, the human interaction and culture give the product its characteristics, and in short, this is terroir!

This category features many regional produce and products from our Tumbarumba region, a cool climate of Australia where we can source, grow and enjoy mountain-nordic-style food and beverage.
Have a browse for more:
https://www.bottleandbrushstudio.com/snowyfoodieblog/categories/terroirproduce

31/07/2024

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Perspective is key to all that we desire.

You may see a mountain of cookie dough,
I see a tool for healing and sharing love.

You may see a pile of sugar and butter,
I see a way to make connection and community.

You may see a basic choc chip cookie,
I see divine crumbs that has helped me find my mastery, my magic and my mind.

You may see a treat that helps you hide sorrow,
I see a gift to help teach the art of joy.

Learning this hasn't been a perfect ride of happiness and cookies...each week starts with me arguing with the fear and doubt that surrounds my heart, which some weeks last for a couple of hours and others for the whole week.

This fear and doubt has been a blessing in disguise, forcing me to slow down and find the beauty in chaos.

The last 3 plus years has been the most rewarding yet frustrating years to date, and I wouldn't change it!

Thought I was starting a business and turns out I signed up for a healing journey of spirit, and the whole way along there has been the quiet voice deep inside tell me to change my perspective and see the long game.

That little change each time I've hit a wall has brought peace to my heart and mind... and while it might not get me over the wall every time, it help me see the path through the wall or makes me release that the wall I am trying to break through is not my wall.

Does business stuff is not my strongest point, but struggling with that has allowed my gift of joy and perspective to blossom in way I cannot describe.

Slowing down to change perspective and enjoy the true abundance that each step produces may not the quickest way to have a "successful" business, though it's the truest way to allow your heart to shine. ✨ 💕

Abundance is all perspective. 🕊️

30/07/2024

It's that time again! Join us at the Snowy Community Markets for our final event of the winter.

Jindabyne Memorial Hall
Kosciuszko Road
Saturday 3rd August
9am - 2pm

28/07/2024

Looking forward to riding these trails this summer!!

27/07/2024

It’s prep time for next weekend’s Snowy Community Market

This will be the last local market for the Wild Gardner as I hang up my apron to focus on my family and a return to my previous career in education. I’ll still make appearances at some of my favourite festivals and workshops so keep an eye out.

But, for now, one last week of late night bakes, piping marshmallow and hand chocolating wagon wheels.

See you all on Saturday 3rd August
Jindabyne Memorial Hall
Kosciusko Road
9am-2pm

09/07/2024

Thanks for your support Tumbarumba!! I’ve got a handful of cookie bags left.

$25 for a mix of everything.

Three huge classic cookies (elderberry /Rosehip / Lemon Lavender)
Two melting moments (Lemon Lavender / Rosehip)
Two Iced Vovos (Medlar with sliced pear / Lemon Lavender with lemon curd)

Plus I’m throwing in a bag of my handmade musk sticks in Medlar or Lemon Lavender flavour.

I’m heading home this arvo.

07/07/2024

CELEBRATING
Thank you to all our clients ❤️
& amazing caring team at Billy Button Babysitting

Thredbo Resort
Everyone

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04/07/2024

Snowy Community Market on this Saturday 6th July at the Jindabyne Memorial Hall
9am-2pm

Come check out some locally foraged flavour cookies and more!

03/07/2024

Meet the gang this Saturday at the Snowy Community Market 9am - 2pm Jindabyne Memorial Hall on Kosciusko Road

Huge classic cookies, crumbling buttery melting moments and iced vovos made with locally foraged flavours!

Come and try:
Elderberry Choc Chip
Lemon Lavender & Lilac
Rosehip & Hawthorn
Medlar Fruit

Plus handmade vinegars, infused honeys and my gorgeous little cakes are back and just perfect to share with your best mate.

01/07/2024

Lemon lavender and lilac (try saying that 3 times fast!) classic cookies. Foraged flavours of the Snowys. Check out those little white cloud shapes - they’re Kafir Lime and Coconut!!

Available at the

29/06/2024

Playing with new recipe ideas. Look at that colour!!!

See you at the Snowy Community Market on Saturday July 6th
Jindabyne Memorial Hall
9am-2pm

29/06/2024

This!!!

25/06/2024

I'm heading inside, out of the cold next weekend. Come and say hi and taste some amazing new products and old favourites.

Send a message to learn more

21/06/2024

An incredibly thoughtful gift from a friend - I can’t wait to make my next batch of treats. So grateful for wonderful people in my life. ❤️❤️❤️

19/06/2024

When laziness becomes triumph. This weeks melting moment: raspberry, kaffir lime & medlar. Absolutely delicious.

12/06/2024

With the first snow of the season falling this week, I'm thinking back to the warmer days of foraging in the Snowy Mountains.

07/06/2024

Rainy days are for bletting medlars. Happy Wombat Hazelnut Farm near Batlow is to thank for this huge harvest!!!

31/05/2024

Foraged kafir lime and coconut milk melting moments!!

31/05/2024

Medlar Fruit cakes with sweet white clover buttercream and apple flowers ❤️❤️❤️❤️

31/05/2024

Apple cider bites and Elderberry Fizzers. See you tomorrow at the Snowy Community Market

30/05/2024

I love how these guys turned out.
Gluten free hawthorn, strawberry & raspberry cake with apple & feijoa buttercream and topped with candied sweet white clovers seed and persimmon peel.
That was a mouthful. A very delicious mouthful.
There are only three of these babies available. See you Saturday.