Fleurieu Living Magazine

"Fleurieu Living Magazine features the best in food and wine, homes and gardens, growers, producers, accommodation and destinations — as well as artists,writers and designers working and living on South Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula and Kangaroo Island. Published quarterly, Fleurieu Living Magazine is available throughout Adelaide and the Fleurieu via newsagents, wineries, restaurants cafés and B&Bs."

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Welcome to FLM

Spring Diary Dates

FESTIVALS AND EVENTS:

Rest and rtreet • There’s a book my children love that starts with the line: ‘Everything you need for a treehouse/starts with time/and looking up.’ It’s an invitation to pause and imagine what’s possible, and what unfolds on the book’s pages is wild and whimsical.

Colour in bloom

Spring book reviews

A perfect cup of coffee is a lot like education • OK, stay with me on this. We know exactly how we like our coffee. We know how to order it, how it should look and how we like it to taste. But when that coffee doesn’t meet our expectations, very few of us could step behind that roaring coffee machine and produce the perfect cup of coffee for ourselves – let alone anyone else’s.

Where flowers bloom so does hope • ‘Where flowers bloom, so does hope,’ said Lady Bird Johnson, America’s First Lady in the 1960s. She believed that by beautifying the highways with wildflowers, her nation would be a better place to live.

Welcome to the club • When Nick Stock was a kid living in Adelaide, he was desperate to learn to surf. He begged his dad to teach him and so they began heading down to the Fleurieu’s mid-coast, mostly ending up at Moana, but sometimes they’d go as far as Silver Sands. ‘I remember looking at the sign and, I didn’t articulate like this at the time, but I thought to myself: that is wild, that this place is called Silver Sands,’ Nick says. ‘So I remember as an eight-year-old kid thinking this is a magic, magic thing.’

Beachcombers • It’s a wondrous thing, how the wild calms a child. Sandy feet and wind lashed hair. The freckles collected on a child’s nose tells a story, little reminders of a summer well spent. Nothing is more glorious than a day exploring our beautiful adventurous coast line with your little wild ones.

Drinkability

Handpicked Festival • Hidden among vineyards and shaded by gum trees, on the vast and sprawling lawn of Lake Breeze Wines, lies a place that, for a moment in time, becomes the delightful Handpicked Festival. What started as a small family-run music festival has now grown into one of the most talked about music festivals in the state.

Sunahama no koya • Ben Kernahan, Tom Shaw and Sam Foutoulis – together known as 35º South Building Company – are sitting around the generous table in the dwindling light of a cool winter’s day. There’s a clear camaraderie between the three. They converse easily and listen to each other’s responses, their mutual respect obvious. The table is crafted from rough-sawn timber and it aptly symbolises the shared purpose that led them to found 35º South.

What to buy, where to buy it

From boardrooms to barrels • I’m halfway across Yorke Peninsula, creating a makeshift office on the bottom bunk of an old fisherman’s shack when I finally catch Dylan Beach, Regional Manager of Fleurieu Peninsula Tourism, on the phone. I’ve managed to reach him just before he makes a return trip to Indonesia and we talk of warm water and waves.

Delivering a dream to go green • Inspiration can strike at the most unexpected times. For Maslin Beach mother-of-two Lindsey McEwan, it happened as she tried to refill a series of glass jars in a bulk food aisle, while struggling to stop her young children from digging their tiny bare hands...