The People

For five generations, the Maitland family has grown quality cereals and legumes on their farm in Clare Valley, South Australia, producing fine food products including premium wholegrain dry pasta, wholegrain flour and wholegrain chickpeas and beans.

Winners of Champion Australian Produce and Champion Australian Fresh Produce, Terra Preta Truffles is a family-run business, and that family extends further than Kate, Peter, Keith, Rita and Gus Marshall. The dogs – Sal, Shadow, Buffy, Aldo and Little Bill, the trees, the soil and the chef are all family too.

When Scott Niewand formed Wits End Pulses in 2016, it was with the aim of providing an alternative to the bulk commodity market that their premium quality pulses were previously sold into. Through this initiative, Scott says that they have been able to “access premium markets and simultaneously gain greater insight into what the consumer demands”.

Michael and Christie McLeod took over the Hazelbrae hazelnut farm in 2014, and have since become a must-visit agri-tourism destination in Northern Tasmania.