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Certified organic. Granny Smith Natural Food Market is a certified organic grocery in Turramurra’s Princes Street village on Sydney’s Upper North Shore. We’ve been selecting the finest farmer-direct and market produce from the Sydney region and farther afield since 2002. We > |
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‘The Great Bean Hunt’. We’re hunting Australian-grown dried beans! We’ve asked in a number of places, including the Riverina, but to no avail. On a recent trip to Austin, capital of Texas, we saw Whole Foods’ flagship store display of heirloom beans. Please holler if you know of locals growing shelling beans. |
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Ultimate local produce. The Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide 2011 says – generously – of Granny Smith: ‘If you’re a good customer, you get first crack at the ultimate in local produce: eggs from owner Peter Kenyon’s chooks just up the road. Peter has always striven to stock > |
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Cookers and eaters. This season’s heirloom apples are being harvested at Borry Gartrell’s and Gaye Stuart-Nairne’s Orange orchard. We’re again offering both ‘cookers’ and ‘eaters’ from late summer, through March and early April, including Bramley’s Seedling, Gravenstein and Dr Hogg > |
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Mallows, sweet mallows. Gena Karpf’s hand-made mallows are not the delicate, fleeting flowers – ‘petals veined with blue’ – of desire in Mary Lowell Rebec’s poem White Mallow, but a manifestation just as beautiful. Created in Gena’s artisan patisserie in nearby Epping, these mallows > |
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Sustainable salmon. We all enjoyed Regal’s New Zealand whole salmon cooked sous vide for our customers’ tables at Christmas. Farmed to the highest marine environmental standards in the Marlborough Sounds, we also offer fresh fillets, vacuum-packed, year-round. |
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Cyber apples You can bite into Granny Smith on Facebook and Twitter. To these fruits of the net we try to graft ideas that we’ve had about food, or those about which we’ve read or heard. Or we just send quirky stuff there…like an image of a heart-shaped potato. Or words about Peter’s backyard chooks. |
