The Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA) is involved in a one year research project aimed at taking a fresh look at value-added horticultural food production in Australia. The project aims to identify and develop the potential to create new products from fruit, vegetable and nut crops based on utilising by-products and excess produce. Face creams from broccoli stalks, pink ice-cream from beetroot, …
Lettuce growers’ money spinner ROGER HANSON – Rural Reporter, The Mercury AUSTRALIA’S leading lettuce producer, Houston’s Farm, is taking healthy ready-made meals to the nation. Marketing manager Allison Clark said the convenient food offer met changing demand. ‘‘We grow some of the best product in Australia and our climate means we can grow 12 months of the year,’’ she said. …
This season, we’ve formed a partnership with the Richmond Junior Soccer Club. “It’s a fantastic association; healthy, happy kids being supported by a local Richmond company which grows great lettuces. We think this is a great way of encouraging healthy eating among kids from a young age”, said Wayne Johnson, Richmond and Eastern Region President. Soccer is huge in Richmond and on …
In the quest to find tastier leaves and more innovative salad products, Dr Hazel MacTavish-West, an expert in flavour analysis has added her considerable skills to the team. Hazel is passionate about marketing fruit and vegetable products to consumers on the basis of taste and health, and uses her unusual combination of skills – plant (phyto) chemist, physiologist and marketing …