After years in food publishing, recipe development and MasterChef Australia, Karlie Verkerk has created Fin. Fragrance, a range of sprayable garnishes designed to add a final burst of flavour to everyday cooking.
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Food writer Karlie Verkerk reflects on her first year on the Tweed and the growers, cooks, restaurants and shared tables that have helped make this place feel like home.
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Where Food Meets Printmaking Over seven years in Pottsville, award-winning Pipit has become a place where food, design and community meet through practice. Ben Devlin and Yen Trinh come from different directions, kitchens and design, but work from the same space. Yen’s background is in urban and experience design. “Before Pipit, my career was in […]
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Creative Caldera’s New Regional Arts Festival Creative Caldera is a not-for-profit curatorial and production initiative based in the Tweed, working with artists and local communities to support contemporary creative practice across the region. This year marks the pilot launch of the LAVA Arts Festival, running from 26 to 28 June across Murwillumbah and surrounding villages. […]
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Maharaja Indian Restaurant, Casuarina Maharaja Indian Restaurant was opened in 1994 by Lakhvir Singh on the Mid North Coast. It began as a small North Indian restaurant and grew steadily as customers returned, often bringing others with them. Years later, the family opened in Casuarina, a move that felt less like a new direction and […]
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Inside M|Arts Precinct Murwillumbah has become one of the Northern Rivers’ more active creative pockets, shaped over time by places like the Tweed Regional Gallery and Tweed Regional Museum, along with a network of independent studios and artist-run spaces across town. At the centre of that shift is M|Arts Precinct, which opened in 2017 inside […]
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Where Music Belongs to Everyone Tyalgum Community Hall | 25–27 September The Tyalgum Music Festival returns to the Tyalgum Community Hall this September, continuing its distinctive approach to presenting classical music in an intimate regional setting in the Tweed. Across three days, the festival brings together opera, chamber music, jazz and orchestral works in a […]
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Inside the Hall That Has Shaped Pottsville’s Community Spirit Pottsville Beach Community Hall turns 40 this year, and the milestone will be marked with a free community celebration on Saturday 4 July from 11am. Since opening in 1986, the hall has quietly sat at the centre of Pottsville life. It’s where people have gathered for […]
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Local agents paving the way for new era of growth in Pottsville Less than two years after opening the doors to the first Witheriff Group office expansion wasn’t part of the early strategic plan. However, when opportunity knocks – you answer the call. For Witheriff Group Director Nick Witheriff, intentional growth has always been key […]
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Homegrown Support: Holistic Care for Mothers For Melina Rainger, midwifery has never been just a profession. It is a lineage, a calling, and now a homecoming. Born and raised in the small coastal village of Pottsville, Melina comes from generations of local families who have lived, worked, and raised children in the Tweed Valley. Those […]
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