I love a sunburnt country

I love a sunburnt country

Jan 28, 2021 | Stories

This beautiful, honest poem by Dorothea MacKellar is one of our favourites.  It paints a picture of an incredible country that is at once warm and picturesque and at the same time harsh and unforgiving. The Local-Side team were debating long and hard about whether to...
What does community mean to you?

What does community mean to you?

Jan 15, 2021 | Stories

One of the questions we get asked here a bit is, what’s the go with the Local-side? Why didn’t you just get a whole stack of great products from wholesalers and sell them? A lot of the team here at the Local Side grew up in regional areas, with town populations in the...

Did anything positive come from 2020?

Jan 5, 2021 | Uncategorized

Happy New Year everyone!  Phew aren’t we glad to put that one behind us? As the new year begins, I was looking back and wondering was 2020 all bad? Yep – absolutely – it was dreadful. A once in a lifetime event occurred and no one was prepared for it.  Lots...

Welcome back local markets!

Dec 30, 2020 | Stories, Uncategorized

One of my favourite things to do is to go to a local market and talk to the vendors about their products and the story behind them.  I recently came across a group of more senior gentlemen with a love of woodwork. They made beautiful handcrafted gifts of pepper...