Wynlen House
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Market garden produce stall- Braidwood
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Wynlen House started as a small enterprise following the age-old tradition of organic food production and growing food to be consumed locally. For us this means growing vegetables and raising sheep, poultry and pigs for meat on our large suburban block in the village of Braidwood, NSW. Our passion for garlic growing is fulfilled with our garlic partner at Clarevale Farm, Braidwood where we grow early, mid and late season garlic with the aim of making sure our fellow garlic lovers never have to go without organically grown, fantastically tasty garlic because we can supply our own grown garlic all year round. We sell vegetables from our weekly earth market stall, every Saturday morning in Braidwood's main street.
After eating our delicious vegetables and organically grown poultry, pork and hoggart our customers began asking how they too could successfully grow their own food in our region's harsh cool climate. So we developed training programs (on-farm workshops and on-line courses ) on How to Grow Garlic in Australia's suitable climate zones, How to Grow Vegetables All Year Round in a Cool Climate and How to Raise Small Farm Animals, all without pesticides or herbicides and Growing Garlic: An On Farm Workshop. Our latest shor online course is "How to Make Your Own Layer Feed" We also offer comprehensive Mini Growing Guides to start you growing from your favorite family of vegetables. The first of these is Mini Guide to Pumpkin and Squash, of the genus Cucurbita, and the family Cucurbitaceae. Our growing techniques are scalable to larger spaces and bigger operations so when you want to plant more, you don't have to totally alter your gardening practices. Growing food and raising farm animals offers opportunities to put meaning and productivity into your life. Working with the soil, helping it produce and practicing animal husbandry (raising animals) satisfies the human urge to keep in contact with the foundation of life. It provides focus and gives immense joy. Eating food that has been grown with passion, love and care is the best food in the world. It is food with soul and you can taste the difference. |
Wynlen House sells vegetables, seasonal preserves and baked goods every Saturday from a small produce stall in the Courtyard of Provisions Deli & Grocery, 56 Wallace St Braidwood and at the Braidwood Farmers Market (1st & 3rd
Saturday of the month at the National Theatre) We sell whatever is ready from the garden (seasonal produce) We aim for a broad range of produce, focusing on a little of everything and a lot of a some things. We always sell a seasonal Stir Fry mix and a seasonal Salad mix. Food is picked and sold within 24 hours. We also sell preserves and cakes made from seasonal produce and fruits. Horseradish cream is very popular and garlic confit and garlic toum over winter. Apple pie of course! and other sweet delights that take our fancy to make. |
Our Philosophy
We grow a large range of produce, we grow our produce to be consumed locally. This is called Slow Food. This approach is based on a concept of food that is defined by three interconnected principles: good, clean and fair:
All aspects of food, its quality, its origins, its preparation, how it arrives at our plate needs to be thought about. Every step in the process of growing food has an impact on our environment. Producing food organically and locally minimises this impact. This is simple honest food of the highest quality and we believe you can taste the difference.
There is nothing new about this. It is really only in the last 60 years of the twentieth century that the growing of food in home gardens and in local regions was not the norm. Prior to the introduction of chemical fertilizers in the early twentieth century, leading to large-scale broad acre farming, most food was produced locally and most people participated in some way in its production. We are part of this age old tradition.
- GOOD: quality, flavoursome and healthy food
- CLEAN: production that does not harm the environment
- FAIR: accessible prices for consumers and fair conditions and pay for producers.
All aspects of food, its quality, its origins, its preparation, how it arrives at our plate needs to be thought about. Every step in the process of growing food has an impact on our environment. Producing food organically and locally minimises this impact. This is simple honest food of the highest quality and we believe you can taste the difference.
There is nothing new about this. It is really only in the last 60 years of the twentieth century that the growing of food in home gardens and in local regions was not the norm. Prior to the introduction of chemical fertilizers in the early twentieth century, leading to large-scale broad acre farming, most food was produced locally and most people participated in some way in its production. We are part of this age old tradition.
Learning Centre
In 2017 we launched our Learning Centre with our first online course "Garlic, How to Grow It". This course grew from a wish to share our expertise as garlic growers, and conveners/ leaders of the Braidwood Garlic Growers Group which was awarded the NSW Landcare Champion award for Innovation and Farm Management in 2017. Garlic is a pleasure to grow and can be grown effectively on a small commercial basis.
During 2017 more online courses will be released including Cool Climate Vegetable Growing and Raising Small Farm Animals, using organic principles. We look forward to meeting you in our online classrooms in 2017.
Our mini-guides will roll out as we write them. Remember, in cooler climates planting times × to harvest are different from those in other climate zones. Seed packet advice is seldom correct for cool climate zones (at least in our experience). The mini guides will address this issue too.
During 2017 more online courses will be released including Cool Climate Vegetable Growing and Raising Small Farm Animals, using organic principles. We look forward to meeting you in our online classrooms in 2017.
Our mini-guides will roll out as we write them. Remember, in cooler climates planting times × to harvest are different from those in other climate zones. Seed packet advice is seldom correct for cool climate zones (at least in our experience). The mini guides will address this issue too.