Innholdsfortegnelse for Spring 2022 i Fleurieu Living Magazine

Key Personnel Petra de Mooy Petra started her career as a furniture designer/maker, but always had aspirations to write so … why not start a magazine? Making the connections we’ve made and getting to know this region in-depth has been a gift. Jason Porter Jason has worked as a graphic designer and creative director both locally and overseas for over thirty years. When not in the office, he can usually be found tweaking the crossover filters on his ridiculously over-the-top audio system. Kate Le Gallez Kate started her working life as a lawyer and consultant, before turning to a lifelong love of writing. She confesses to suffering a mild podcast addiction, which results in her overuse of the phrase ‘I was listening to a podcast … ’ as a conversation…

The Unfolding by A.M. Homes Published by Granta Books ISBN 9781783789146 $32.99 A prize-winning novelist, essayist and creative writing academic at Princeton, A.M. Homes has turned her hand to a speculative parable exploring the swirling madness of America’s politics. Her central character (only ever referred to as the ‘Big Guy’ but seemingly inspired by Walter Annenberg, a businessman and diplomat credited with introducing Thatcher to Reagan at his Palm Springs estate), confronts the loss of his candidate and a country he no longer recognises after Obama is elected president in 2008. Accustomed to control, success and having the country as his to ‘tame or claim’, he pulls together a group of those similarly inclined and resourced to hatch a longterm scheme to ‘protect and preserve democracy’. The democracy sought, naturally,…

‘We’ve made that commitment to the business and to each other that it’s our place and we want to be able to welcome everybody that comes here’ Nick tells this story sitting in the new Silver Sands Beach Club, which he co-owns with his friend and business partner, Mark Kamleh. The restaurant isn’t open for service today, so we can happily occupy prime position at the front window, the panoramic view of the ocean all ours. And yes, it is magic. Life pre-and-post-pandemic stand in stark contrast for Nick and Mark. Nick travelled widely as an international wine critic, while Mark worked mostly in Adelaide as a DJ and hospitality chameleon. The two connected first through friends and then professionally, working together at Tasting Australia. Then, of course, Covid hit.…

‘Plastics are going to be here well beyond us and our great, great grandkids and there’s going to be more plastic in the ocean than fish by 2050, so we need to change our reliance on it.’ Two years later, Lindsey is the owner of Bulk Cellar, a successful boutique online store that offers a growing range of whole food items and environmentally sustainable products – all with the convenience of home delivery. Lindsey says the opportunity to help people reduce their use of plastic is the driving force behind the store. ‘From my early twenties I started becoming more conscious of plastics and the impact of convenience buying, and so I started to shop bulk to reduce household waste,’ she says. She saw the massive impact of plastic pollution…

Amaro – meaning ‘bitter’ in Italian – is the liquor used in a negroni. It’s also Lilli’s favourite drink and the inspiration behind the name of her two-year-old multi-faceted creative endeavour, Amaro Tones. Lilli’s eye for beauty extends to anything with a charmingly aged quality; just as much of Amaro Tones is lovingly-restored retro furniture as it is juicy prints. ‘I associate amaros with orange and warm tones and my pieces are quite Mediterranean-inspired so it made sense,’ Lilli says. Lilli’s artistry was nurtured during her Willunga Waldorf primary schooling years, both at school and via private lessons with artist Lesley Redgate. Lilli fondly recalls memories of walking across paddocks from her Willunga childhood home to Lesley’s old house for after-school lessons. ‘She showed me colour and how light works…

From our publishing editor Petra As we welcomed newcomer Hollie Connery to our team we said farewell to Holly Wyatt. Holly’s contributions to FLM are immeasurable. We wish her all the very best. Early in production we all sat together at the local café to discuss content plans for Spring 2022. We came across a recent copy of Dumbo Feather magazine. Their team had created a feature called ‘On belonging’ and we decided to use this as inspiration for our own version we are calling ‘A sense of place’. As someone who did not grow up here, it has been a revelation to live somewhere that sense of place, encompassing the storied past and the lucky present, are appreciated to the degree they are in this community. People just feel…

‘It’s an experiential form of luxury that’s about escaping for a weekend or a week into a curated aesthetic existence – an escape that’s both physical and emotional.’ In early 2020, Jo Lenart and Joe Ciambriello did just that. They packed up their lives in Sydney and moved to a treehouse on the Fleurieu. Not an actual treehouse, but hidden among the gums off Penny’s Hill Road on The Range it may as well be. On first viewing, the house struck the pair as a diamond in the rough. At the time, they were immersed in their Sydney lives, occasionally visiting South Australia to see Joe’s mum. Jo was working for a creative digital agency after time spent in marketing for record labels, while Joe worked as a freelance creative,…

The beautiful Fleurieu is fast transitioning from one of the world’s best kept secrets to one of its worst. And, while there are so many reasons the world is taking notice of this beautiful stretch of Kaurna yerta, the region’s winemakers are doing more than their fair share in driving its popularity. They’re often the people who have awakened to the beauty and potential of a place earlier than the rest of us – and they’ve committed to it. They’ve followed their desires, are on a mission to make the great wines of their dreams and they’re heavily invested: fiscally and otherwise. Our winemakers play a starring role in the experience of visiting the Fleurieu and their bottles spread the word far and wide. So my first wine column for…

‘I thought you know what, I can really help kids in my class … and make a difference, but if I can work with 100 teachers or 100 leaders, I can have a much bigger impact’ It all started with an idea that was so compelling a sporting club offered to double Matt’s yearly salary as a teacher just to apply his scientific coaching to their team. Matt turned the offer down – a big gamble at the time, considering he had a young family and had also recently left his secure career in education. If it wasn’t for a meeting with his long-time friend Luke Darcy (former AFL player and now the co-founder of Aleda) over coffee, he might not have made the bold choice to quit his job.…

‘His transition from student to teacher made surprisingly seamless by his high school leaders happily welcoming him in as an equal.’ As 23-year-old Jesse McKinnon returns to his former school Encounter Lutheran College to take up his first post as a middle and senior school teacher, this lifecycle has begun to turn again. Jesse started at Encounter in year three, after moving from Grange to Port Elliot with his parents and older sister. He recalls the move as an exciting change of scenery for their family, while maintaining the coastal lifestyle they loved. Spending the remainder of his primary schooling on the south coast, Jesse then kicked off his high school career at Tatachilla Lutheran College, where he joined a much larger cohort than he had experienced at Encounter. Eventually,…

Victor Camoirano Driver – Croissant D’Or Uruguayan Australian…

When you first cast your eyes upon one of Louise Vadasz’s vibrant paintings of flowers nestled within equally radiant vases, it’s easy to understand their creator has had a lifelong love affair with the natural world. So it’s not overly surprising when award-winning artist Louise reveals she carries garden shears around with her wherever she goes. ‘I’ve always got my snips in the car or in my back pocket to snip a bit off here and there, just in case I see something inspiring,’ Louise explains. ‘As long as it’s not on someone’s property … I’ve been doing it for years.’ Born in McLaren Vale and having grown up on the Fleurieu, she has been enamoured by plants and their vast blossoms as long as she can remember. ‘Growing up…

Here in McLaren Vale, Hope Lovelock Deane not only has a historic personal connection to the roads of the southern vales, but she also aspires to bring new life to her family’s, and the local communities’, natural and cultural environments. Deane. Lovelock. Pethick. Semmens. McDonald. Hill. Morton. Hutchinson. As well as being names of roads that reach from Reynella to Aldinga, these are just some of the surnames in Hope’s eight generations of family. ‘There are around thirty family names in my bloodline, back to the first generation that lived around the basin,’ says Hope. It makes for a multitude of relatives both living and dead, including those now resting in McLaren Vale’s Congregational Cemetery – of which Hope is now custodian. Earlier this year, Hope purchased the cemetery and…

‘I was intrigued by looking at the events from the back end. I guess that’s a part of my entrepreneurial self, I wanted to be that person, making it all happen’ But mostly we ramble about our shared love for discovering and supporting the small businesses that keep a region moving, and how it’s in these in-between encounters with locals that lasting memories are made. When first encountering Dylan’s easy humility, honesty and self agency, it’s hard not to feel like he has the landmark features of a professional twice his age. At 32, Dylan is currently the youngest Regional Tourism Manager in South Australia – a position that holds substantial responsibility in leading the region’s tourism sector on both a state, national and international level. Don’t be fooled by…

It turns out she couldn’t live without buffalo mozzarella. And she was willing to take matters into her own hands. Emma and her partner Eric Oxenham moved to their 14-hectare property in Myponga in 2015. The couple knew they wanted to create a value-added product in livestock agriculture, and Myponga already had a great reputation for dairying. With the relatively small size of the property, they needed to focus on a niche business for it to be worthwhile. All these factors dovetailed with Emma’s penchant for fresh buffalo mozzarella, and their future course was set. Their plans were cemented after meeting Michael Wohlstadt of The Dairyman in the Barossa Valley at a Future Foods conference. Michael has a traditional small-scale mixed farm that produces premium butter, cream and pork products…

Nigel Morris Chief Executive Officer at Alexandrina Council at Middleton Beach After six and a half years as CEO of District Council of Yankalilla, Nigel felt honoured to be selected as CEO of Alexandrina Council. ‘Staying on the Fleurieu was important to me, I love the sense of open air and freedom… It is just spectacular, clean and green and it feels right,’ he says. For Nigel, all of these things intersect at Forktree Brewing in Carrickalinga. ‘It is a place where you can sit and relax and watch the kangaroos on the rolling hills of the farmland and out to the ocean of the Fleurieu Coast while listening to the joys of the sounds of community chatter and laughter.’ If not taking in the view at Forktree, Nigel can be…

01. Tony Saba, Woodcroft An avid fisherman, Tony comes to Port Noarlunga up to five times per week to fish off the jetty and breathe the fresh sea air. He sometimes enjoys a beer with friends at the pub afterwards. 02. Derrilee Noah, Woodcroft Derrilee has been fishing most of her life, and visits the jetty on her Monday off work – every week! She loves how clean the water is, and has developed strong friendships with the community of fishers that frequent the jetty year round. 03. Radha Solomon, Port Noarlunga Radha loves the community in Port Noarlunga, which she likens to a little bubble where you see people you know on the street all the time. ‘The cafe community is great, and I hear there is a new…