IT WAS WHILE working as an apprentice for food educator and kitchen garden pioneer Stephanie Alexander that Annie Smithers first discovered a passion for fresh produce and a reverence for small growers. Later on, she would run a cafe for Carol White at Lavandula, a working lavender farm outside of Daylesford, Victoria, and it was here that her love of growing was sparked.
“To put the ground to work makes perfect sense to me,” says Annie who moved to the Hepburn
