Autumn 2024

WELCOME TO AUTUMN ON MABELLAE FARM

The Still Room at Mabellae Farm is a place where farmers, chefs, students, diners, educators, and artisans come together to push the boundaries of regenerative farming, creating and eating.

To book a farm tour, workshop, long lunch or educational day for your friends, colleagues or school group, please see The Store Room for our current offerings or contact Emma Jane to curate a unique experience here in The Southern Highlands.

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Autumn has arrived with a mixed bag of weather, some very hot days with intermittent cold snaps here on Mabellae Farm.

Our Summer crops are slowing down in the greenhouse and it’s transition time out in the market garden.

The Still Room kitchen is busy with local catering, preserving, pickling and creating new and interesting products, courses, workshops and experiences for you.

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Along with running workshops, courses and tours on the farm, The Still Room 1710 creates an artisanal range of seasonal jams, marmalades, chutneys, vinegars, butters, curds, and specialty products from right here on Mabellae Farm.  

We grow everything here, using regenerative and biodynamic principles to ensure you get the most nourishing and delicious produce for your family.

Everything is grown in our hilltop orchard and vegetable garden. To meet demand, we also source produce from local, like-minded growers.

We also have pasture raised chickens, bees as well as Belted Galloway Cattle and Dorper Sheep who are hand raised on the rolling hills of the Southern Highlands, and a menagerie of other animals.

Stockists

  • Highlands Hamper Co

    https://highlandshamperco.com.au/

  • Unit 22/6-10 Owen Street

    Mittagong NSW 2575 Australia

    P: 0407 002 906

  • 366 Argyle St

    Moss Vale NSW 2577 Australia

    P: 02 48682026

    E: [email protected]

WHAT IS A STILL ROOM?

The Still Room is a distillery room found in most large houses throughout Europe dating back to at least 1710. The Still Room was a working room: part science lab, part infirmary and part kitchen.  

Originally the use of the Still Room was restricted to preparing herbs and flowers from the kitchen garden and surrounding countryside. Here they were preserved for creating medicines and home cleaning products and processed into, what today, we call essential oils they were then infused or distilled or brewed as required to make cosmetics, ointments, soaps, furniture polish and home brewed beer or wine. 

Eventually, The Still Room evolved into a room adjacent to the kitchen that was used for making jams, jellies, and home-brewed beverages, and later it became a storeroom for perishables such as cakes, biscuits and bread.

The Still Room acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as custodians of traditional land and waters of Australia.
We acknowledge and pay respect to them, their cultures and Elders past, present and emerging.