A 10-minute drive east from the Cowaramup township is One Table Farm, the home, cooking school, and regenerative farm run by husband and wife team Cree Monaghan and Tim Hall – alongside a little help from their three kids.
A workshop experienced in their beautifully crafted timber cooking school will help you to both appreciate the results, and understand the effort, involved in living and teaching from farm to table. “Seasonally we produce different percentages of food on our farm, but these days it probably averages close to 90 per cent of what we eat and,” adds Cree, “depending upon the workshop we are running, it will constitute the majority of the food consumed at a class.”
Cree and Tim have planted a diverse crop to allow for preparation of the foods they love: fruits, nuts and vegetables that run the gamut from the quotidian (broccoli, cauliflower, tomatoes) to the less usual – foods like capers, tomatillos, asparagus and artichoke. Honey makes the list, alongside small quantities of chicken and other meats, with experimentation branching into tea, coffee and grains.
For Cree the list of rewards is long: self-satisfaction, improved health, the art of patience, alongside drastic minimisation of food waste and carbon sequestering. Not to mention the classes and workshops that allow Cree, Tim and family to feed, teach, and share their story with visitors.