Yeo Farm hosts Fast Ed from Better Homes and Gardens
It’s a normal Wednesday morning and I was delivering a side of lamb to the dairy not far from our farm when I got a call from an unknown number. ‘Hello, I’m Sarah from Better Homes and Garden, we would love if Fast Ed could come and cook your lamb on your farm?’ …Ummm YES!!! Wow! Even though the call was through the car, I actually pulled over on the dirt road to talk to Fast Eds lovely researcher Sarah further and then only find out that they would like to come Melbourne Cup day!
“Are you into the cup? Will that be a problem?” Well I won’t be into it this year I said! What a fantastic opportunity for our farm. The goal of Yeo Farm was to have always been to provide our region with beautiful pasture raised lamb and invite those who would like to experience a farm tour in the Great Lakes Region and this could not have been more perfect if we planned it!
Two weeks later, we woke up to a very unusual cool morning with drizzling rain! Not enough to rate in the rain gauge but enough to make us nervous about filming. Fast Ed was going to be doing a roast leg in a camp oven so the fire pit that Andrews brother Ian had built from plough discs from their childhood farm was well alight with some ironbark from our property and I raced out to see if the rain was affecting it but Andrew was already all over it. He had taken a piece of corrugated iron from the compost bays he just built and put on the bucket of the tractor over the fire pit! So we had fire!
Fast Ed has a beautiful way of using really good produce and making seemingly complicated gourmet dishes seem easy and delicious. When they told us that he would be using the gorgeous Dolcetto wine from Old Inn Road Winery which is only a few kms from us and the second stop on on the Food Trial we were so excited!! Sooze from Old Inn Road Winery came for the days filming and we had a lovely tasting at the end of the day.
The filming of our short excerpt was most of the day and was such a wonderful experience. The whole team where a down to earth and very professional team that very much enjoyed their job and Ed was a larger than life personality, talented chef but also a really nice bloke. He spent his teenage years out in the bush and knows his way around a farm. They made us feel so comfortable and we were so proud to watch our little farm come to life on the big screen.
Thank you to Destination NSW and Better Homes and Garden for featuring our beautiful farm and the Great Lakes and Barrington Coast nationally! Watch over the next few weeks for more of Fast Ed’s travels through the Great Lakes and featuring more Great Lake Food Trail members including the Bungwahl School, Burraduc Buffalo Dairy and garlic from Valley View Farm.
GREAT LAKES FOOD TRAIL AUTUMN TRAIL 19th April 2020
Aired 7th Feb 2020. Catch up on 7plus Episode 1 for 2020 (we are first up!)
