Many fennel recipes summon just the white bulb, baked or eaten raw, cored and sliced. When thinly sliced, the fennel bulb or leaves are flavoursome in salads, not overpowering in flavour and crunchy with a subtly sweet aroma.

Check out Sandy Creek Gourmet Produce for fennel local to the Woodford area along with a wide range of other spray-free produce including garlic, ginger, leeks, beetroot, kale, all types of herbs, purple beans, turmeric, watermelon, Asian vegetables, tomatoes, bananas, passionfruit, lemons, limes and stone fruit (in season).

Kelly Strow from Sandy Creek Gourmet Produce has her own five-acre farm producing much of this farm freshness, however to fill the gaps on her way to the Jan Powers markets in Queen Street, Powerhouse, Mitchelton and Manly she stops by the local farms with the same spray-free and ‘picked one day, sold the next’ philosophy to complete her stall produce.

When you are next getting creative in the kitchen, try out some of the following recipes with Sandy Creek Gourmet Produce fennel: fennel and apple soup with fennel seed toast, roasted fennel and pine nut polpette, beetroot and fennel gratin with macadamia and hazelnut dukkah and roasted fennel and baby carrots with quinoa.