By Susan McLachlan, Karatta Wine Room and Gallery, Kristi Biezaite will be exhibiting her exquisite creations at Karatta Wine Room and Gallery in Robe, opening on 6 August. In the exhibition, Kristi will be displaying blankets and shawls, pots, and embroidered cloths she has designed and made by hand. For Kristi, the process is deeply personal and offers a way to reorientate to her new homeland. Emigrating to Robe from Latvia 12 years ago, Kristi always sensed danger in the native Australian bush, which stemmed from a lack of familiarity regarding what was safe to eat and the names of the trees and flowers. In contrast, during her Latvian childhood, she had the good fortune to be taught about plants and edible nuts and berries by her grandparents, spending many holidays in the woodlands. It’s not easy to obtain this level of knowledge of the Australian bushland, but in her […]

By Virginia Gale On a lovely cold winters morning we gathered together and enjoyed planning our next year program. The state committee have nominated we are studying the country Iceland, our project for the year is food bank and our theme is rural women together. We all look forward to the following program suggestions and completed the program. Our challenge today was put towards members to supply a meal for 4 people for $10. As we have a mixture of ex-rural and townies there was no cheating with produce however big or small growing in your backyard. We were all very interested to see if we could do it. Most members were large pantry holders reduced to no pantry. Challenge accepted! Members all did well I think maybe one member was slightly over budget. Members turned up with soup, tacos, frittata, doorstop, sausage casserole, salad, fried rice, sweet-and-sour chicken wings […]