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Words: Elissa Friday Mmm, chocolate. ELISSA FRIDAY meets a Geelong man helping our near-neighbours make a living from some of the world’s mostly highly prized cocoa beans. With demand for chocolate steadily increasing globally, consuming it has become almost second nature for many. Abundant commercial supplies of cocoa feed the hunger, helping chocolate rival coffee […]

Words: Elissa Friday Pictures: Lousia Jones “I love all fruit and vegetables – we love food,” declares Lovely Banks’ Debbie Parsons. “And because we’re so sustainable we can access pretty much anything here that we need.” For the past 11 years Debbie and husband Kevin have worked full-time at Magic Meadow, their farm on Geelong’s […]

Name: Sandeep Kaushal Venue: Tandoori Cuisine & Bar, 17 Pakington St, Geelong West. ‘I’m a big foodie. I have 10 years of experience in the hospitality industry and five years running my own restaurant before taking on Tandoori Cuisines & Bar. We’ve got our own tandoori oven and all the bread is made in our […]

Murray McKinnon was just 22 when he opened his first Impressions in Hair salon. “I wanted to work for myself so I could create a salon with a difference,” he says. But he never dreamed he would own four salons three decades later, the latest of which opened in Pakington Street West six weeks ago. […]

Waurn Ponds mother Katrina Harmon saw great potential when she purchased 40-year-old business Design & Decorate Interiors three years ago. “I saw the opportunity to reinvent it, which is what we did,” she says. “It had the largest range of wallpaper books in Geelong and it continues to do so. “I have many clients coming […]

Military antiques collector Graeme Acton feels that his luck with a rare Japanese Samurai matchlock cannon finally changed when it arrived after nearly seven months stuck in Customs. Around 94cm long, the cannon is about 300 years old and dates back to the early Edo Period of Japanese society, says the owner of central Geelong’s […]