THE WEST WINS
PHOTOGRAPHY SARAH HEWER BORDERED BY AN ocean that feels untamed, and with stations and plantations stretching from the coast to the outback, the Gascoyne and neighbouring Murchison regions offer produce that makes West Australian menus sing. Our mission during the month-long Gascoyne Food Festival: to discover the vast regions, the producers and this epic Australian landscape.
TO THE SOURCE: CARNARVON
It’s early August in Carnarvon, 890 kilometres north of Perth. It’s a town synonymous with bananas, and we walk beneath the enclosed canopy at industry veteran Tom Day’s plantation. They’re spray-free up here, he explains, beneficial bugs used for control, and while you may think bananas are
