Little Things Grown. micro-farm

02/06/2026

Thanks Rosco! Before he passed away, Rosco my favourite ol’ neighbour, planted these mandarin trees 🌳 he was given them by Col a local mate who had them pop up at his place under his own 50 yr old tree. It’s spikey as hell! Massive barbs on the trunk and branches. We watched them grow, ate the first not so good ones, watched them grow some more, the next season was better but this season is the BEST so far. We’ve been sharing them around. I’ll have a few for you Rosco remembering what you said. “Eat em in winter They’re there to ward off the spring colds, the stone fruit in summer gives you the sugar you need to get the summer work done” ✅

Lots of goodness on the stall tomorrow
Organically grown
Asian greens 🥬
Microgreens 🌱
Lemons 🍋
Flowers 🌸
and salad & spinach
Aswell as our own mandarins! This tree is ready and dripping with juicy fruit.
Also if you love radicchio I have a ridiculous amount of seedlings to share. I overdid the seed sowing. 🤪

26/05/2026

The REWARD for making it to in the morning! The freshest flowers grown by moi and my flower friends A & A and the most glorious pink grapefruit straight off the tree to the basket… & some of our organically grown microgreens 🍋🌱☀️🌸
See you in the morning

22/05/2026

Please DM if you’re keen for some of our compost bags
All organic
No nasties
Perfect to bulk up your own or add to a bed that gets boggy. It’s fantastic drainage.
Ready now. Only 50 bags available.
Pick up Maclean this weekend

20/05/2026

From greenhouse and garden to market ☀️☀️ another beautiful market day. Thanks for supporting locally grown greatness

09/05/2026

Stunnnnning! Inspired by my friend Deb who grew this from seed a while ago. So thrilled to find it as a seedling at a few months back! Kim has a love of Western Australian native flowers. I’m besotted. It’s actually a legume. Looking forward to sharing more of the journey of this plant in little old Maclean!

05/05/2026

All for you Yamba town 😁🌈

see you in the morning
7-11am

14/04/2026

Autumn 🍂 finally !
What a huge, long, hot, never ending summer it’s been.
Some snippets of little things HQ to share tomorrow.
See you there with….🌿

Baby kale
Salad mixes
Baby spinach
Broccoli micro
Heaps of sunflower 🌻 bulk sprouts 🌱/micro mixes
Shoots mixes
Herb mixes
Edible Flowers
AND
Absolutely gorgeous Autumn blooms from our gardens and Fiona’s garden and Amanda has just dropped off their incredible bunches aswell. 🥰

All for you YAMBA friends ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️

12/04/2026

26/02/2026

Eye Spy…Some familiar faces, a really great local Chef and some fabulous locally grown microgreens! 😁🌱

20/02/2026

Proud to say, little things grown actually began here. A whisp of an idea from Chef Peter Gilmore. A soft suggestion “ Hey Vees can you grow some flowers for the desserts?” We were working together, in the late 90’s. I was part of the De Beers front of house team, Pete was head Chef. It was at Whale beach on Sydney’s Northern beaches. Over those 3-4yrs, I experienced the greatness of Pete, his visionary approach to food, the challenges of finding the produce of his dreams and a kitchen that actually made and baked their bread daily, where meringue was an event and “fusion” was a novel idea.

I still remember his food.
Twice cooked Duck with calvero Nero the duck was deboned, restacked, wrapped in the skin and cooked again to crisp.
The Valrona Chocolate cake which was 5 layers of textured chocolate
The fusion meringue which was the silkiest texture I’ve ever known , even now.
The simple geometry of the presentation but complexity of flavours. That kitchen was working all day and nights, the stock bones were slowly roasting.

He received a chefs hat in the first year, 2 in the 2nd year and by the third year, the Fink group made him an offer too good to refuse- Quay was born then the rest is history. De Beers could not replace him and closed their doors. I have a photo somewhere of us all on the beach on the last day of service, it was the most beautiful day, blue sky, calm waters, bright Whale Beach light. I’ll dig it out to share. 🌸🤍

Saturday 14 February 2026 marked Peter Gilmore's last day at the helm of world-renowned fine-dining restaurant Quay Restaurant. Find out what he'll be doing next here: bit.ly/4aST7uY