Sallie Jones and Steve Ronalds were inspired to start Gippsland Jersey, an independent, farmer-owned milk brand, out of a desire to honour the work and lives of their hard-working, dairy-farming families. In this episode, you'll hear how Sallie was spurred on after a personal crisis that saw her father Michael end his life tragically in 2016, followed by a crash in the dairy industry, during which major milk producers slashed the prices paid to farmers, leaving them in debt and...

Life is short, bake that cake and eat it too! Emily Chhen was inspired to start Bake It Box in 2016, when she was caught out with expired baking ingredients when making a cake for a friend’s housewarming party. Emily realised that most people don’t keep their pantry stocked with all the ingredients needed when the mood or occasion for baking strikes. So after packing in her full-time bio-tech job, Emily launched Bake It Box to help overcome these baking challenges. She now creates...

Make dinner in 15 minutes Harry stepped out of a corporate career in supply chain management to satisfy a personal unmet need for fast, fresh and delicious home-delivered meal kits. Rather than being daunted by big food delivery competitors like Hello Fresh, Lite’n Easy or Marley Spoon, Harry was enthused to be part of a such a vibrant and growing food service market, and created Feastively. Feastively gives people the convenience of home delivery and satisfaction of home cooking, without...

Healthy office snack boxes While working as a customer experience designer in a large corporate bank, Ashleigh Whittaker noticed an absence of nutritious snack options when the dreaded 3pm slump hit. Rather than succumbing to the biscuit and chocolate options available, Ashleigh sourced a selection of unique and healthy snacks and created her own snack box for the office kitchen. In doing so, Ashleigh uncovered a bigger opportunity - to improve employee productivity, wellbeing and morale...

Simple food, extraordinary flavours In 2009, Jacqui Harvey purchased a fledgling local business, Yarra Valley Gourmet Foods.For the past decade she has built up an enviable portfolio of beautifully packaged gourmet salad dressings, jams, jellies, mustards, cordials, chutneys, relishes, mayonnaise, and vinegars. Made from the finest local ingredients, this all-natural range of products is produced in small, high quality batches. You’ll hear how Jacqui focused firstly on hitting the pavement...

Save your skin, save the oceanIn March 2015, Zi Xie and Andrea Rampin started up a food business, selling high quality Extra Virgin Olive Oils. However, when that business failed to ignite, their olive oil industry knowledge helped them uncovered a new purpose and direction - to start-up a social enterprise called Ocean Deep.You’ll hear how they found an opportunity to re-purpose olive oil waste products and turn them into a contemporary, innovative and sustainable skincare range for...

Since founding Tucker’s Natural in 2007, Sam and Cindy Tucker’s business has been recognised by some of Australia’s most prestigious national food awards, for making the best quality crackers, biscuits, fruit pastes and snacks in class. Hear how Sam built a business based on his personal values, making products that are pure, tasty and nutritious using natural, sustainable ingredients sourced from Australian suppliers. To remain competitive within the fast-paced savoury snacks category, Sam...

Susie Daly is the co-founder of the Daly Potato Company and Hellfire Bluff Distillery.She and her husband Gerald are Tasmanian potato growers, who specialise in growing gourmet potatoes on the family-run farm in Marion Bay.Hear how Susie went from selling fresh potatoes to developing more value-added products, such as gourmet potato salads and an uber-cool farm-distilled potato vodka and gin range called Hellfire Bluff. These innovative additions have not only opened up new sales channels and...

Corinne Noyes in the founder of Madame Flavour, a Melbourne based tea company that produces premium specialty teas. After twenty years working as a marketeer in fast-moving consumer goods, Corinne wanted to create her own handcrafted, artisanal products. Inspired by a childhood rich with travel, culture and adventure, she was drawn to reignite the stale and stagnant tea category and create a more pleasurable drinking experience for women. By introducing a premium pyramid tea bag which allowed...

Will Cook is one of the co-founders of Harvest Box, a rapidly growing snacking company based in Melbourne, Australia. Harvest Box started in 2010 when three mates; Will, George and James, decided to make healthier snacking easy for everyone by creating an unique subscription service of fruit, nut and seed mixes. This innovative format paved the way for national and international distribution of snack packs, health bombs, sultana bubbles and flavours of the world mixes. Now Harvest Box...

At 17 years of age, Morgan Hipworth opened the doors to his own uber-cool doughnut shop, Bistro Morgan, in Windsor, Melbourne, to sell seriously good artisanal doughnuts.From the age of 7 years, Morgan had been inspired to master the art of cooking and served 3 course meals from his lounge room to friends and family. After supplying local cafes with cakes and slices, he ran a successful pop-up shop that introduced his specialty donuts to Melbourne. While completing his Year 12 studies this...

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