For a city girl like me, the chance to visit a farm that prides itself on fresh fruit and vegetables plucked as close to the day that they’re ordered as possible is like the childhood equivalent to being asked to go to the best birthday party-you know the one with the pony and the jumping castle. So when the lovely people at Field to Feast contacted me about coming out for a visit to their farm, the answer was “Absolutely, when?”. I invited my in laws, a bunch of country lovin’ folk who left their idyllic country home to venture out into the capitalist jungle of Sydney, but who still missed the country setting.

Finger eggplant

Cath (who runs the marketing) and Hapi (who runs the farming) have 5 acres of land for their vegetables all neatly rowed and pretty as a picture with vivid greens and purple sprouting like exotic flowers, all lined up to bask in the goodness of the sun under Hapi’s green thumb. So blessed is he that he holds the record in his native Tonga of the largest taro at 6 foot long.

We’re shown the rows of produce, all beautifully cultivated and mostly unsprayed (only when absolutely necessary). The cabbages are bursting open with their wide open leaves like petals.

Lemon chilis

We see their range of chilis including the fiery hot Habanero, milder Jalapeno, long reds as well as a new one, the Lemon Chili, with a whole new taste to it. It’s said to be particularly good for Indian cooking and they cannot keep up with demand.

Black capsicum

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