Cello is the latest venture from mother-and-daughter duo Kathy and Hannah Wadsworth, whose business partnership stretches back more than two decades.
Like many among us, Brett and Michelle Anderson became enamoured with gin during lockdown. Unlike most of us, however, the Andersons took it further than a few online gin and tonics with mates, particularly after their gin group started monthly Meet the Distiller sessions.
The first time Melina Godard visited Duneira Estate, she could barely see it.
“It was mysterious and felt like I was exploring a secret garden,” Melina says. “I fell in love with the place that day and thought about it long after I left.”
There is something slightly perverse about the modern flower industry. We take something whose beauty comes partly from the fact that it is alive, seasonal and destined to die, then spend enormous amounts of energy trying to make it available everywhere, all the time.
When a table of strangers sits down together at Strange Bird Studio in Daylesford, Nicola Weston has noticed there are usually about 35 seconds of awkwardness. Then everyone starts making something.
Karen Hunt still remembers the feeling before she remembers the line. In 1986, at the Gisborne Mechanics Hall, she stood backstage with what she calls “shaking knee caps,” waiting to walk on in a local production of Here Under Heaven.
Heather Carulli spent 25 years helping other people build businesses before she finally asked herself a fairly obvious question: what if she built the thing that was already in her head?