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HOT: Markets in the Garden, Royal Botanical Gardens, Birdwood Avenue, South Yarraf

November 28, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

The Garden Markets is a small market held over summer which is held near the Observatory of the Royal Botanical Gardens. The grassy spot is lovely for a stroll amongst the 100 or so stallholders, none of whom I’d seen before (and I go to a lot of markets). The products ranged from jewellery, fashion, [...]

HOT: Pick and Eat Winter BBQ, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 7 Templestowe Rd, Bulleen

August 14, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

One of the joys of not working is that on a balmy winter’s day, I can go for a bike ride through bucolic scenery and bask in the sun after a picnic lunch, while everyone else is cooped up, grey-faced in a temperature-controlled office cubicle. So I was most excited when I woke up this [...]

HOT: Rose Street Artists Market, 60 Rose St, Fitzroy

August 2, 2009 ⋅ 9 comments

The Rose Street Artists Market has been on my to-do list for at least five years, but for some reason I could never make it for the Saturday market. Fortunately, the market has now expanded to the whole weekend – perfect as I think Sundays are much more conducive to browsing and gushing. The market [...]

HOT: Fitzroy Nursery, 390 Brunswick St, Fitzroy

July 20, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Joycey, Joycey, quite contrary, has does your garden grow? With a little bit of help from Fitzroy Nursery, my (ever-increasing) collection of twenty-five balcony pots have been happily providing my kitchen with fragrant herbs and crisp salad leaves, even during the frosty winter months. While the small plant punnets ($4.95) are not as cheap as [...]

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