Back in my home town of Moruya, on the south coast of NSW, there’s a burgeoning growers scene with locals and visitors excitedly connecting over freshly plucked veggies and the rich soil from which they’re grown. The local farmer’s market is the town epicentre, where people and produce — as unique, wholesome and full of life as each other — make the weekly pilgrimage to relish in the joy of Mother Nature’s bounty.
Eliza and Alex, farmers and founders of Borrowed Ground, are one of the much-loved and well-respected stallholders loading their harvests into the baskets of hungry-bellied marketgoers each and every week. On a recent trip down south to visit family, I drove past the Borrowed Ground market garden one morning and could see Eliza and Alex out working their field. Naturally, with a thirst for growing-centric conversation and a possible surf update, I swung in for a chat.
The Borrowed Ground market garden — the home of Eliza and Alex’s wholesome harvests — is situated on four acres of land just outside of Moruya. Their scrumptious veggies are enjoyed by local households through a veggie
