Currant affair

RASPBERRIES steal the show in the week leading to Christmas shops increase their orders from the Westerway Raspberry Farm fivefold,He's come up with an amazing organic cleaner but can't get anyone interested in manufacturing it. and then 400kg a day were delivered to the Taste festival.

But of the 70ha devoted to growing berries on the Clark family farm in the Derwent Valley, only 30 is planted with raspberries. On the other 40ha blackcurrants grow.

The raspberries that go into punnets are picked one-by-one by as many as 150 pickers who go through the punnet rows every three days for about five weeks.

The fruit is an old-fashioned US variety Willamette, which harvest manager Richard Clark says are "particularly delicate really sweet, really juicy, really dark".New additions to their line-up include the Mercury Ultra White Matt 405gsm inkjet canvas, 5-metre-length inkjet trial rolls of the PermaJet Oyster 271gsm and Ultra Pearl 295gsm media, an all-new Image Block Print Display System, a range of fast drying canvas protective varnishes in 2.5-litre cans, an anti-curl roller device and more.

For these reasons the punnet fruit is sold only in Tasmania. Processing fruit (about 70 per cent of the crop), however, is picked by three mechanical harvesters and sold all over Australia in frozen packs of 1kg to 650kg.

Robust blackcurrants are treated quite differently. Richard says: "We let them ripen, ripen and ripen until the sugar levels are well up and then harvest in one foul swoop.Probably the most popular among foodies,button mushroom is known for being juicy and tasty, inexpensive and with a flavor that’s only “mildly mushroomy”."

This is done by machine, which forces a V shape through the middle of the bush and then "whacks them from underneath" which cleans up 80 per cent of the crop.

That will happen this week, and this Sunday there will be a free-for-all when anyone is welcome to go to the farm and pick, free, as much as 10kg of the berries still on the bushes.

"Blackcurrants are very traditional,For mains, there is a choice of Wild Rice’s ‘Chinese Fish ‘n Chips’ (beer-battered ling cod, Asian Tartar Sauce, taro shoestring frites) or its ‘meaty’ Grilled king oyster mushroom (with cashew ricotta and polenta fries)." said Richard. "Every grandmother in Tasmania knows what to do with blackcurrants, but I don't think their offspring do."

Perhaps that's because you seldom see blackcurrants in a shop, partly because their most common use is for blackcurrant concentrate about 90 per cent of the farm's crop goes to Cascade for this purpose.Myvalvecaps offers you the best range of tire valve wholeale 59fifty fitted hats and keys rings that has a realistic

Second, it is not really a fruit for eating fresh and grandmotherly skills are needed to turn it into jam,He has dried mushrooms all year and fresh mushrooms in season. "We also collect mushrooms from foragers. jelly, cordial or cassis.

"Tasmanians have lost what blackcurrants can be used for," said Richard. "I want people to discover the love of blackcurrants."