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Provenance Growers

Beautiful produce, classic & unusual edible plants all grown chemical free in our garden at Neika. Find us at site 204, Salamanca Market, Saturdays

Broccoli and Other Love Stories, my first book full of tales of my favourite plants, and how I came to know, cook, grow and love them, out July 30, 2024!

05/06/2026

A few wintry glimpses to let you know that the ever-wonderful has a little story on what lead me into my garden.

It was the coldest day, with drizzle and a seemingly unpromising, winter-bare garden, but the storytellers were clever, curious and hungry, the garden held a bounty under the soil and my wonderful mum turned up to help, so I think it will be beautiful.

7.30 tonight (Friday) and 1.30pm on Sunday on ABC tv, then on iview and the Gardening Australia website to watch whenever the rain or darkness chases you in from your garden.

24/04/2026

This weekend is on Sunday due to Anzac Day.

We will be there on Sunday with edible plants, beautiful autumn tomatoes and lots of sauces, seasonings and preserves.

18/12/2025

If you have a kitchen gardener, cook, plant nerd or reader who enjoys meandering down windy pathways in your life, they might enjoy my book.

Broccoli and Other Love Stories tells of how I met, learned to grow and cook, then fell in love with, the food plants we grow in our diverse market garden.

I tell the stories of dozens of plants, arranged by botanical families, so that you can see the links between them. You can learn where they come from culturally and geographically, the missteps and triumphs we’ve gone through while getting to know them in the garden, and, most importantly, how to make use of them in the kitchen.

Our dear friend, gifted chef and photographer, took the photographs, making everything look beautiful.

If you’d like a personally signed copy I’ll be at with Matt this Saturday from 10.30 until 12.30 this Saturday, or you can send me a DM to arrange your message and pick-up at market or our roadside stall.

We’ll also have many of the seeds and seedlings so you can grow-along as you read.

The poky sticks in the second picture are one of my favourite festive gifts to make, and a delicious way to enjoy edible flowers. The recipe is one of many in the book and there is still time to sugar some flowers, melt chocolate and play in the kitchen.

We’ll also have Matt’s preserves and hampers, seeds, a ridiculous variety of obscure and classic edible plants, soil tonics and more.

If you arrive early at the parking is easy (and free!)and there are no crowds, and our Neika roadside stall is perhaps the quietest festive shopping location around. 💚

24/10/2025

We’re all packed for tomorrow and marigolds and tomatoes are yours for the planting!

We find that flowering plants amongst our tomatoes ward off pests and make us smile.

We have 43 varieties of tomatoes onboard, tomatillos, zucchini, cucumbers, pumpkins, some wee basil seedlings, perennial vegetables, herbs, edible flowers and one lonely variety of dye plant - some little madder divisions.

Purslane, Sichuan buttons, French tarragon, leaf celery, cowslips, sunflowers, minari, wasabi, caigua, lovage, parsley, dill, chervil, heartsease, calendula, summer savoury and many, many more beautiful and delicious plants, with more on the way in the coming weeks.

23/10/2025

Thank you so much to Salamanca Market for sharing our show-week tomato excitement. We've been feeding, labelling and talking to our tomato plants all day so they'll be at their best for market this weekend and well into November, along with a wonderful selection of other kitchen garden good things.

22/10/2025

The first tomatoes are in the roadside stall and being sorted for Salamanca Market on Saturday.

We’ll be adding many more varieties through the day today and will have them for the next few weeks, so don’t rush if your garden is chilly!

17/10/2025

Matt is at Salamanca with the first of the tomatoes, waaay too many varieties of zucchini, perennial and annual herbs, edible flowers that will bring beneficial insects to protect your crops and many more plants, seeds, preserves along with my book to hopefully provide inspiration and my brand of gentle, learn-by-doing garden guidance.

This weeks list is below, and there are at least 30 more varieties that will be ready next week for your Show Day needs, and still more after that. The cool, windy weather has made the peppers and eggplants slow, but I’ll list them as they become ready.

Our dear community suffered a terrible loss recently, and while the garden is a balm for our broken hearts, we will be busy and I’d be very grateful to keep correspondence to the minimum, so if you receive a late, or copy-paste reply from us I hope you understand.

Black Cherry
Black Krim
Casady's Folly
Ceylon
Eva Purple Ball
Gardener's Delight
George
Harbinger
Jaune Flamme
Leicester
Lucid Gem
Orange Banana
San Marzano
Schimmeig Stoo
Stupice
Tigerella
Violet Jasper
Wapsipinnicon Peach
Yellow Perfection

03/10/2025

Unfortunately we’ll be away from tomorrow.

The roadside stall will be open with a small selection of seeds, preserves and seedlings.

We’ll be offline the next few days.

But we’re expecting the first of the tomatoes to be ready on Saturday the 11th along with a lots of wonderful, edible summer annuals and perennials.

08/08/2025

They’re here!

The 2025 certified seed potatoes have arrived. Matt will have them at Salamanca tomorrow, along with a huge selection of seeds, preserves, produce and copies of my book.

We sadly have no coloured flesh varieties this year. But we do have a terrific mix of chippers, roasters, mashers, boilers and, my favourite, new salad potatoes.

Pinkeye
Dutch Cream
King Edward
Banana
Pink Fir Apple
Pontiac

I’ll tuck a few packs into the Neika stall before lunch on Sunday.

27/07/2025

It's time. Tonight at 7pm we're opening up for seed sales, so that you can have as much fun in your garden and kitchen as we do!
https://www.provenancegrowers.com.au/retail-shop

We've been growing, tasting, culling and observing, then snipping, drying, digging, threshing, winnowing and testing. All of the most energetic seed, delicious and interesting varieties from last season will be available.

A few things to note:
🥦Please only select 'click and collect' or 'local pickup' if you can come to our farm gate at Neika or Salamanca Market on a Saturday.
🍅We can only send things to QLD, VIC, NSW and SA and Canberra, no overseas WA or NT orders can be sent.
🥒We have a limited amount of some things, but plenty of most - our stock levels suffered a little this season as I was a bit distracted sending my book into the world last spring. Mashua is limited to one pack per person and I'll automatically refund multiples.
🥦🩷Broccoli and Other Love Stories, the book where I share how I met, fell in love with and learned to grow and cook the plants you find on here, and more, will be available for mail order, please add a note with the details if you'd like your copy signed. Or please order it from your local book shop, I love book shops and want them to thrive!
🌶If you're local you can skip the webshop and send us your shopping list from the site for Neika or Salamanca collection.
We post orders on Mondays, and Auspost can be quite slow, so if you order on a Tuesday please don't fret too early, last season we had dozens of enquiries about late postage and only one was actually lost. Auspost tracking only works for us on big packages where you provide your phone number.

I'd best get packing and counting, see you at 7 tonight!

Address

Salamanca Market
Hobart, TAS
7004

Opening Hours

7am - 3pm

Website

https://www.provenancegrowers.com.au/, https://geni.us/BroccoliPaulette

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