"Fleurieu Living Magazine features the best in food and wine, homes and gardens, growers, producers, accommodation and destinations — as well as artists,writers and designers working and living on South Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula and Kangaroo Island. Published quarterly, Fleurieu Living Magazine is available throughout Adelaide and the Fleurieu via newsagents, wineries, restaurants cafés and B&Bs."
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Brand culture • As a thank you to our advertising partners, we would like to showcase these amazing enterprises via a short introduction to their respective businesses. Each issue will offer some insight into three of our partners.
Welcome to FLM
Summer Diary Dates
Third time luckiest
Faces and places Brenton Preece
Community jump in to rescue little fish
Navigating the inbetween • Parenting trends and styles have always ebbed and flowed. Around thirty-five years ago, the approach to parenting was often paternalistic based on control and doing things that were ‘for our own good’ with a clear power differential. This would be coupled with its opposite – a ‘free range’ approach with children roaming, no helicopters in sight.
Making grenache great again • The recent release of the 2020 wine data for our McLaren Vale region contained a big surprise. Now, I‘m guessing that reviewing the SA Winegrape Crush Survey 2020 Regional Summary Report may not be high up on your summer reading list, so I’ll break it down for you. For the first time in my living memory, the average price for a tonne of McLaren Vale grenache grapes was higher than the average price for a tonne of McLaren Vale shiraz.
Great grenache
Music in the time of COVID • There were certain words in 2020 that so quickly flooded the lexicon they traversed the distance from buzzword to banished with heretofore unseen haste. You could say it’s unprecedented. As some words were devalued, others were bestowed new meaning: take ‘essential’ and ‘non-essential’. When COVID restrictions first came into effect, these words suddenly had the power to determine lives and livelihoods.
In our own backyard • At the start of 2020, Encounter Lutheran College took possession of 69 acres directly to the north of their pre-existing campus, reaching all the way to Waterport Road. It was an exciting start to the school’s twentieth year and ‘the most exciting initiative I’ve ever been part of,’ says Kelvin Grivell, ELC’s principal, some ten months down the track.
Little Forest Farm • In 2018, Rohan Cleeves and Hailey Lane finally found their dream property. The land is situated just six kilometres from the seaside town of Middleton and on a clear day you can look down the crease of the hills to the Lower Lakes far below. After this season’s early rains, the grass is high and lush and there’s water in their small dam. It’s not hard to see why they fell in love with this little piece of paradise, their Little Forest Farm.
FLM portraiture series • by Fleurieu-based high-school students. The series features original photographs capturing an emotion or a story, or create a document of place and time. The portraits could be studio-based, environmental, candid or self-portraits.
Fleurieu Film Festival • February 13, 2021 at Serafino Winery
Romancing the wood • A verdant, sun-soaked landscape provides the backdrop to my adventure into the world of bespoke designer/makers. Over two days, I discover commonalities and points of difference between three local enterprises who are embracing the customised design movement, revealing a shared passion for timber, texture and traditional techniques.
Adventure down south • Looking for some adventure this summer? These six local businesses could have just what you’re looking...