Happy Underground is a human-scale market garden on the unceded lands of the Dhudhuroa people (Yackandandah).
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We use fossil-fuel-free, low-input organic processes and hand labour to grow ripper veg for hyper-local eaters.
The Happy Underground neighbourhood farm stand is back for another weekend! Lotsa organic goodies under the blue umbrella at 10 Wellsford St (the Hammond St side of the house) today:
🐝 new season garlic
🐝 snowpeas
🐝 broadbeans
🐝 lettuce mix
🐝 pea sprouts
🐝 assorted herbs
Happy Sunday!
The Happy Underground neighbourhood farm stand is back!
Come grab some fresh, spring goodies from under the blue umbrella at 10 Wellsford Street (the Hammond Street side of the house):
🌼 early garlic
🌼 broadbeans
🌼 speckled lettuce heads
🌼 radishes
🌼 pea sprouts
🌼 coriander
🌼 oregano
🌼 mint
All locally and organically grown, and totally fossil-fuel free, thanks to our trusty bike fleet! 😉
The Happy Underground neighbourhood farm stand is groaning under the weight of pumpkins, pumpkins and more pumpkins this weekend!
Head over to 10 Wellsford St (the Hammon St side of the building) and look for the blue umbrella to find:
🥬 baby carrots
🥬 purple top turnips
🥬 radishes
🥬 parsnips
🥬 Butternut, Small Sugar and Kent pumpkins
🥬 Tuscan kale
🥬 Red Russian kale
🥬 spigarello
🥬 rocket
🥬 lettuce mix
🥬 braising greens
🥬 pea sprouts
🥬 coriander
🥬 flat-leaf parsley
🥬 dill
Here all weekend until we run out!
Pull on your gummies, grab your brolly and get yourself down to the Happy Underground neighbourhood farm stand this weekend for rainbows of fresh, locally grown, organic garden goodies!
☔️ carrots
☔️ pumpkins - Butternuts and "Small Sugars"
☔️ rhubarb
☔️ spigarello
☔️ Tuscan kale
☔️ red Russian kale
☔️ braising greens mix
☔️ rocket
☔️ pea sprouts
☔️ herbs
Find the farm stand at 10 Wellsford Street, Yack - on the Hammond Street side of the building. We'll keep it restocked all weekend until we run out! 🤩
Oh autumn is a great season! And it's showing on today's neighbourhood farm stand - it's absolutely full to the brim!
This weekend we've got:
🍁 new season's pumpkins - Small Sugars and Butternuts
🍁 carrots
🍁 spigarello
🍁 Tuscan kale
🍁 braising greens mix
🍁 rocket
🍁 green capsicums
🍁 pea sprouts
🍁 basil
🍁 flat leaf parsley
Find it all under the blue umbrella at 10 Wellsford Street (the Hammond Street side of the building). We'll keep it stocked all weekend...until we run out! Happy autumn!
Happy Saturday, friends and neighbours!
The Happy Underground neighbourhood farm stand is back in brilliant shades of green this weekend, with:
🥕 carrots
🥕 spigarello (an heirloom leafy green, related to broccoli)
🥕 rocket
🥕 lettuce mix
🥕 the last cherry tomatoes of what has been a beaut season!
🥕 dill
🥕 flat-leaf parsley
Find it at 10 Wellsford Street, on the Hammond Street side of the building, under the blue umbrella! We'll keep it topped up all weekend, until we run out of goodies.
We've got lotsa garden goodies at the Happy Underground neighbourhood farm stand this weekend!
🍁 carrots
🍁 rainbow chard
🍁 red capsicum
🍁 zucchinis
🍁 cucumbers
🍁 slicing tomatoes
🍁 spring onions
🍁 basil
🍁 dill
🍁 flat-leaf parsley
Freshly harvested, locally grown and chemical-free! Find it under the blue umbrella at 10 Wellsford St - on the Hammond St side of the building - until Sunday afternoon...or whenever it runs out!
Happy rainy Saturday, Yackandandies!
What the day lacks in colour, the Happy Underground neighbourhood farm stand is making up for! We've got a rainbow of fresh garden goodies ready for weekend munching, including:
☔️ red capsicums
☔️ carrots
☔️ radishes
☔️ corn
☔️cherry tomatoes
☔️ spring onions
☔️ cucumbers
☔️ zucchinis
☔️ basil
☔️ dill
Grab your brolly and come find it at 10 Wellsford Street, around the Hammond Street side of the building, all weekend long until it runs out!
Lil f@*kers...
Ahhhh, Small Sugar, you can hide, but you can’t hide!
We’re growing six varieties of pumpkins in the Pumpkin Patch this year, including this ridiculously photogenic and mega-pumpkiniful Small Sugar, an heirloom that can trace its lineage back to, oh, the late 1880s!
These babies have gone through quite the transformation - from dark green beauties to this brilliant and what can only be regarded as prescient shade of . 🎃😌
So, which will come first - the pumpkin harvest or the election? (And if the pumpkin harvest comes first, can we stuff Scomo into a pumpkin, roast it and eat it?)
Slow-cruising bikes make for the perfect vantage points from which to spy good foraging locations.
And this apple tree is one of our faves around the place - guaranteed to yield bucketloads of good-sized, delish fruit that somehow manages to escape the ravages of codling moth and cockies!
We’re using a few of these babies in tomato relish and then the rest in apple cider.
A flashback to yesterday’s harvest.
We’ll have lotsa goodies on the neighbourhood farm stand again tomorrow, but if you want to unlock the secret level of vegie delights, sign up to our weekly harvest list!
An almighty haul of capsicums today, just in time for us to hardly have enough room on the bikes to carry them...
We weren’t holding out much hope for our capsicum plants this year - the rain and cooler weather really seemed to slow them down and we’ve seen a bit of blossom end rot in the fruit that did ripen...
And then suddenly they’ve decided to come to the party! And what a party, comrades!!! 🥳🤩😍
Sun-dried tigerella tomatoes, five days in the drying under the clear blue Yack skies!
Admittedly we lost a fair few along the way to ‘taste-testing’, but if you can’t sample the wares, then what’s the point, eh?!
Rockmelon. So called because it’s a melon that ROCKS. 💥👊🏽💥
Not long now...
The neighbourhood farm stand is ready to go with tonnes of tomatoes and corn for weekend munching!
Under the blue umbrella this weekend we have:
🤩 slicing tomatoes
🤩 cherry tomatoes
🤩 corn cobs
🤩 carrots
🤩 zucchinis
🤩 cucumbers
🤩 biodynamic pink fir potatoes from our buddies at Beechworth Natural Farm
🤩 basil
🤩 flat-leaf parsley
Come for a wander to 10 Wellsford St (the Hammond Street side of the building) - the stand will be stocked all weekend long, refreshed throughout the day.
It takes a bee a lifetime to produce 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey.
It’s impossible to do justice to this factoid and what this means for the energy embodied in a jar of honey. Particularly recognising the readiness with which we humans pillage these golden stores and proceed to snaffle - in our tea and on our toast and as part of the highly questionable 1980s practice of mixing honey through cornflakes for a quick fix to a kids birthday party menu - the glorious work of these amazing creatures.
So there was mindfulness and celebration, both, in our honey harvest for the year.
We were joined by lovely neighbour, Candice (in what felt like a party of three in honour of the cast of thousands that created such abundance) to press the comb and extract the honey - enough to hopefully last us the rest of the year...once we’ve shared a bit around to our fave humans!
Parsnips are one of those things that sneak up on you.
You’ll be rolling around in gargantuan amounts of cucumbers, zucchinis and tomatoes, feeling like you never planted anything else, and then suddenly there’s this vast hedge of green stuff casting a shadow over everything and, underground, the straightest, most beautiful parsnips just crying out to be roasted with tomatoes and garlic and drizzled with caper vinaigrette...
Yeh, that’s what they’re saying. 💬💬💬
Plants care nothing for human schedules, and will do what damn well suits them best.
Our pumpkins had no desire to germinate back in October when we were ready for them to start growing.
Nor were they interested in putting on any growth in December, as we fretted that our transplants wouldn’t take.
We scolded them weekly, that this was not proper behaviour for a pumpkin, but they didn’t listen.
They clearly decided that late January was when they would cram all their growth, waiting until their human caretakers had given up all hope of a mature harvest before setting any fruit.
I can almost hear them sniggering to each other, laughing at our disdain whilst pushing out tendrils and fruit behind our backs.
Well, pumpkins, we’ll just see who’s laughing in May when the frosts arrive, and a pumpkin bonanza is revealed!!
Happy Saturday, neighbhourhood folks!
The Happy Underground neighbourhood farm stand is ready with delicious, chemical-free yummies for your nibbling pleasure:
🍅 tomatoes
🍅 cherry tomatoes
🍅 corn cobs
🍅 rainbow chard
🍅 lettuce leaf mix
🍅 cucumbers
🍅 pea sprouts
🍅 basil
🍅 flat leaf parsley
🍅 biodynamic pink fur potatoes from our friends at Beechworth Natural Farm
Find all these goodies under the blue umbrella at 10 Wellsford St (the Hammond St side of the building) throughout the weekend - we'll restock the stand each day! 🌈🦆
Good morning, good people of the neighbourhood!
The Happy Underground neighbourhood farm stand is ready for another weekend and if you're dreaming of fresh corn slathered with butter, salt and pepper for lunch, you're in luck!
Today on the stand we've got:
🌽 corn cobs
🌽 tomatoes
🌽 cucumbers
🌽 zucchinis
🌽 beetroot
🌽 rainbow chard
🌽 basil bunches
🌽 radishes
🌽 new season's biodynamic kipfler potatoes, from our friends at Beechworth Natural Farm
You'll find the farm stand at 10 Wellsford Street - on the Hammond Street side of the building. (Look for the blue umbrella.) We'll keep it stocked until Monday afternoon, or until we run out of goodies! ;)
Happy weekend!
Some good rain + summer sunshine + a little bit of love = a happy harvest!
Eggplants have snuck their way onto this week’s harvest list.
Buoyed by our bumper Tsakoniki crop of 2021, these striped beauties are making a comeback this year and we’re also trying our hand at Black Beauties. The name says it all, doesn’t it?
Happy harvest day!
Early in spring, as we threw off our jumpers and turned our backs on our little greenhouse dome, curious forces went to work within...
We now have the healthiest, most vibrant looking self-sown Warrigal greens plant growing in the sometimes-50-odd-degree heat in there, working its way up the walls and steadily out the door.
We’re not complaining - it’s a sight to behold and we’re currently harvesting from it for our weekly veg boxes!!!
We’ll never look a gift dome in the mouth! 🐴 🌱
It’s pesto-making day!
And if pesto ain’t proof that the simplest things always taste the best, we don’t know what is!
Our recipe: 160g basil, four garlic cloves, 200g nuts (we used walnuts, because we had them in the pantry, but use pine nuts or almonds if you’ve got ‘em), juice of one lemon (thanks, Julie K!), good olive oil, big pinches of Murray River pink salt - blitz it in a food processor and it’s done!
Now we’re dreaming of homemade pasta with big dollops of pesto stirred through, pesto spread thick on fresh sourdough as part of a super flavoursome sanga, easy peasy pesto-y eggs on toast...
Will these jars last us the week?!?! 😋
Good morning sunshines! The neighbourhood farm stand is brimming with fresh, locally grown, chemical-free summer vegies:
🌈 carrots
🌈 beets
🌈 radishes
🌈 cucumbers
🌈 zucchinis
🌈 rocket
🌈 rainbow chard
🌈 pea sprouts
🌈 basil
Find all these goodies at 10 Wellsford Street (the Hammond Street side of the building) all weekend long, until Monday afternoon!
Ahhhh, summer. Even with all the hair-frizzing humidity, sweaty shirts and hat-bands, flies up the nose and hot bike seats, you treat us so well!
This week’s harvest saw us add tomatoes - cherries ‘n’ slicers - and corn to our line-up, and carrots are finally doing their thing for reals.
It’s a super dooper time to be eating seasonally and locally. (And the beaut thing about sourcing your fresh goodies close to the source is not just that you are bolstering short, local supply chains but that the flavour is BUILT-IN - you hardly need to do a thing to make a gorgeous meal!)
He’s just a guy, squinting into the summer sun, asking you to eat corn...
Tomatoes are here, at last.
For our first two summers of growing, we held tight to the aim of having ‘tomatoes by Christmas!’ Oh gawd, did we toss ‘n’ turn over trying to get nature to meet that arbitrary and culturally constructed deadline!
Last year, in particular, we got early toms, but our plants weren’t happy and it felt like while we gained (psychologically) by getting tomatoes in tummies in December, we ended up with a smaller yield overall. We didn’t have a good time of it, and we learnt from that.
So, this summer we’ve cooled our jets a bit and tried to listen to what the season and the plants are telling us. We put our plants in the ground a bit later and we’ve gone to great pains to show them a lot of love!
It’s meant a little bit of a later start, but I think it’s fair to say we’re all a lot more content! And hopefully it gets us off to a good start for a lovely long season of healthy plants and lots of delicious toms!
The Happy Underground neighbourhood farm stand is back up and running under the big blue umbrella at 10 Wellsford St.
This weekend you’ll find:
🌞 cucumbers
🌞 zucchinis
🌞 purple beans
🌞 beetroot
🌞 radishes
🌞 rainbow chard
🌞 spring onions
🌞 basil
🌞 new season fennel and orange pickles
Check the esky box for goodies - we’ll harvest afresh each day and keep things stocked until Monday...or until they run out!
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La Niña is doing her thing here in a pretty epic way - we’ve notched up 100mm of rain at the patch during the past two days, with more again forecast for today. We thought we were being pretty clever, sowing rows of carrot, rocket and radish seeds on Wednesday to make the most of the coming rain, but are now wondering whether the deluge will have washed everything down the slope where it will, instead, germinate in a weird muddled patch of ‘salad mix’ somewhere in a valley closer to Myrtleford! It’s all in crazy contrast to the mini-heatwave we sweated through earlier this week. This is climate change, baybee, and it makes for some interesting time-space planning, desperate scrambling to sow, harvest, water-proof and protect delicate plants. And it culminated in a harvest day today for which the word ‘soggy’ was a pretty hilarious understatement. See exhibit A at the end of this clip, where you might just be able to make out a glimpse of Lauren tipping about a cup’s worth of rain out of one of her boots... #climatechange #lanina #summer #rain #marketgardening #ebike #cargobike #harvestday #bikeeverywhere #yackandandah
What you WILL see in this video: that magical moment that thousands of our bees swarmed into the sky while we were harvesting coriander right underneath them. What you WON’T see (or hear) in this video: Lauren letting loose on a string of very unInstagrammable expletives as the wonder of the moment turns to the stunned realisation that half our bees are about to fly away... #heythatsourbees #bees #beekeeping #beelosing #beeswarm #thatlearningcurvegoesstraightup #pollinators #marketgardening
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Happy Underground is a human-scale, participatory market garden, growing utterly awesome, hand-tended produce for hyper-local eaters.
Chris McGorlick and Lauren Salathiel - former owners of Yackandandah’s Saint Monday eatery - have turned their attentions from serving food to growing it, and are bringing the community along for the ride. (No saddle sores involved, we promise!)
Against the backdrop of Mount Big Ben, on a piece of land borrowed from friends, and with a miscellany of well-loved, people-powered, hand-me-down tools at their disposal, the pair aims to further cultivate the fertile cultural foodscape that is Yackandandah.
Keep your eyes on this space, good people!
