Beans, beans, beans!

When you go away, the weather is beautiful, and the veg patch greets you with a surprise on your return!

I grow climbing beans every year, they generally produce abundantly right through autumn, they are perfect for braising in tomato sauce, but they are also fabulous pickled too.

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Yintarini Farm

I was delighted when invited to bring my sessions to Yintarini Farm, where Lucy and her family pursue a permaculture lifestyle guided by the principles of – People Care, Earth Care and Fair Share (https://www.yintarinifarm.au/).

Coming up:

HOMEMADE PASTA (GF), PRESERVING & PROPOGATION
Session One in  A Year of Sustainable Living – A series of small-farm based, self-sufficiency inspired workshops with Yintarini Farm & SBA’s Kitchen
Date:  Saturday 7 February 2026
Time:  9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Venue:  Yintarini Farm, 166 Cochranes Road, Seaspray, VIC, 3851
Cost: $88.00 per person plus Eventbrite Fee (Cost includes recipes, all ingredients, a hearty lunch and take-homes!)
Bookings:  via Eventbrite click here
Max Participants:  8 participants
(All food will be gluten free)

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Session One: Homemade Pasta (GF), Preserving & Propagation

The next session is scheduled for:

Date:  Saturday 10 January 2026
Time:  9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Venue:   Yintarini Farm, 166 Cochranes Road, Seaspray, VIC, 3851
Cost: $88.00 per person plus Eventbrite Fee(Cost includes recipes, all ingredients, a hearty lunch and take-homes!)
Bookings:  via Eventbrite click here
Max Participants:  8 participants


Sample Menu

Antipasti
Crostini topped with Gardiniera style flavour bomb & Pesto
Focaccia (GF)
Sformato of Zucchini
Marinated Mushrooms
Marinated Olives

Pasta e insalata
Carbonara
Norma
Pomodorino
Roast Pumpkin Ravioli with Burnt Butter & Sage
Insalata di fagioli e pomodoro (Summer Salad of Beans & Tomato)
A bowl of dressed salad leaves

Dessert:
Almost Tiramisu

(All food will be gluten free)


Yintarini Farm and SBA’s Kitchen are excited to bring you a series of sustainability inspired workshops, to be held throughout 2026. Each workshop will equip you with new skills, and the confidence, to help you pursue a more self-sufficient lifestyle.

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Be inspired to grow what you eat and cook what your grow. Discover the joy of using the freshest of produce from YIntarini Farm and The Garden at Tranquility, complemented by products from the shelves of SBA’s Kitchen at Home, and local Gippsland producers where available, to prepare delicious dishes for all to enjoy.

Tour the gardens of Yintarini Farm with Lucy, learn of her plans for the future, and get some dirt under your nails as she shows you how she grows from scratch, using both cuttings, and the seeds saved from previous crops. Yes, there will be take-homes!

In the kitchen learn new skills and discover new recipes with Julie, from SBA’s Kitchen and The Garden at Tranquility, as you work together to preserve some tomatoes, make some flavour bombs, and freshly made pasta, all key ingredients used as we prepare a hearty lunch to share, throughout the day, while we take breaks to sit chat and relax.

This is a hands-on session, where you will learn new skills, enjoy delicious food, meet new folk, and have a little fun. At the end of the day, you will leave the farm with recipes for all dishes prepared, the plants/seeds from the propagation session, a jar each of the preserves from the preserving session, a little fresh pasta to cook at home, and any leftovers, if any, from the meal enjoyed throughout the day.

All of this, and the inspiration to take what you’ve learned, home to your garden and kitchen.

This is strictly a small group session and there are only 8 places available, so if you want to come along, we recommend booking early.


Program for attendees on the day:

9:00 am
Arrive Yintarini Farm
9:15 am
Welcome & Introduction with Lucy
9:30 am
Garden tour with Lucy
10:00 am
Propagation with Lucy
11:00 am
Preserving with Julie
(including
tomatoes and a couple of flavour bombs to take home)
12:30 pm
Antipasti
(sit, relax, eat & chat)
1:00 pm
Pasta Making with Julie
2:30 pm
Pasta e insalata
(sit, relax, eat & chat)
3:00 pm

Coffee Liqueur demonstration with Julie (Julie shares a delicious coffee liqueur recipe gifted by hosts of a B&B in France!
3:20 pm
Dolci
(sit, relax, eat & chat)
4:00 pm
Depart Yintarini Farm


On the day:
Participants will be provided with equipment, instructions and guidance as they pot up seeds and cuttings on the day.
Participants will be provided with ingredients, instructions and guidance as they prepare the various delicious dishes on the day.
We will enjoy the delicious food prepared as we take breaks throughout the day, and sit, eat, chat and relax.
All food will be gluten free.

What you will take home:
Notes and recipes for the dishes made on the day.
Pot(s) of seeds/cuttings from the propagation session.
A jar each of the preserves made on the day.
A small box of pasta made on the day.
A share of any leftovers from the lunch (containers provided).
Maybe a new friendship with other’s who attend on the day.

Session Duration:
The session will run for approximately 7 hours.

More Information:
I prefer not to call this a cooking class, but more of a hands-on cooking and knowledge sharing session, where those attending learn and share from my experience. I am not a trained chef, just taught and guided by my experiences, and driven by my love of cooking, sharing, and celebrating with food. (Julie)

Health and Safety & Other
If you have any dietary restrictions, please contact me prior to booking as I like to make sure that everyone can enjoy the food prepared on the day.
Closed shoes must be worn on the day.
You may wish to bring an apron and your gardening gloves…

For more information:
📞 0417927657 (Lucy)
💻 http://www.yintarinifarm.au
📞 0416021160 (Julie)

Summer Harvest Pickles and Relishes

Cooking with SBA’s Kitchen

The next session is scheduled for:

Date:  Saturday 1 February 2025
Time:  10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Venue:  Segue – Stratford’s Neighborhood House & Arts Café
Cost:  $60.00 per person (including Eventbrite booking fee)
Bookings: via Eventbrite click here
Max Participants:  4 participants

Date:  Wednesday 5 March 2025
Time:  10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Venue:  Briagolong Community House
Cost:  $55.00 per person
Bookings:  Briagolong Community House (03) 5145 5425
Max Participants:  6 participants

On the menu:  Mum’s Zucchini Pickles  |||  My Aunt, Diane’s Tomato Relish  ||| Asian Flavoured Pickled Vegetables  |||  Summer Harvest Salsa |||  Ploughman’s Lunch  |||  Nachos

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Learn ||| Cook ||| Eat ||| Chat

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From Nana Grace’s Kitchen

This series of sessions has been created using recipes from my beautiful mum’s recipe book.  While mum is no longer with us, beautiful memories will  remain with us always, as we continue to cook and share her beautiful food from the recipes that she has so carefully written into her recipe book.  Then there are also the unwritten recipes, that we just make out of habit, recipes that our mum cooked regularly from habit, and taught us as we worked beside her to prepare family meals.  Through her food and the stories we tell, our mum’s memory will remain alive in our hearts and our lives.

In my mother’s kitchen food was prepared with love using whatever ingredients were at hand, and there was always enough to add an extra plate or two at the table for unexpected guests.

I look forward to sharing my memories, and my mother’s recipes at these sessions.

Pasties & Baked Custard

 

 

 

 

 

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