Autumn in the Kitchen Garden
and the Orchard
The Kitchen Garden and Orchard here on Mabellae Farm are where it all begins; we grow our herbs and botanicals alongside food for our family. Regenerative farming practices ensure that our plants are clean and nutrient-dense. We grow and then dry our herbs and botanicals right here on the farm. I then prepare our products in our purpose-built Wellness Kitchen/Laboratory.
The Still Room is busy creating new and interesting products for you.
Regenerative Farming
Research has shown that regeneratively managed crops contain higher levels of important nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants compared to conventionally managed crops.
A guide from Sustainable Table
Autumn
Herbs + Spices
Basil, chervil, chilli, chives, coriander, dill, garlic, ginger, lime, lemongrass, makrut lime (leaves), mint, oregano, parsley, rosemary, sage, tarragon, thyme
Fruits
Avocado, apple*, blackberries, banana, cumquat, custard apple, feijoa, fig, grapefruit, grapes, guava, kiwi fruit, lemon, lime, mandarin*, mango, mangosteen, nashi, orange*, papaya, passionfruit, peach, pear*, persimmon, plum, pomegranate, prickly pear, quince, rambutan, raspberries, rhubarb, strawberries, tamarillo
Vegetables
Artichokes, Asian greens* avocado, beans*, beetroot, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, capsicum, carrot, cauliflower, celery, corn, cucumber, daikon, eggplant, fennel, leek, lettuce, mushrooms*, okra, onion, parsnip, potato, pumpkin, shallot, silverbeet, spinach, spring onion, squash, swede, sweet, potato, tomato, turnip, watercress, witlof, zucchini
Autumn varieties
Apple* aba, bonza, braeburn, cox’s orange pippins, fuji, gala, golden delicious, granny smith, jonagold, jonathan, mutso, pink lady, red delicious, snow, sundowner, artichoke* jerusalem, asian greens* bok choy, choy sum, gai laan, wombok, beans* borlotti, butter, green, mandarin* imperial, mushrooms* field, pine, slippery jacks, orange* navel, valencia, pear* beurre bosc, howell, josephine, packham, red sensation, williams
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The Still Room prepares a range of science-backed natural actives with traditional botanicals for powerful formulas for your health.
We grow our herbs and botanicals, using regenerative and biodynamic principles to ensure our products are the healthiest for you and your family.
Everything is grown in our hilltop orchard and kitchen garden. To meet demand, we also source produce from local, like-minded growers.
Within our regenerative ecosystem here on our farm, we have pasture-raised chickens, and bees, as well as Belted Galloway Cattle and Dorper Sheep who are hand-raised on the rolling hills of the Southern Highlands, along with a menagerie of other animals.
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 to prepare 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, distilled or brewed as required to make cosmetics, ointments, soaps, furniture polish and other household items.
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.