Kolophon Capers

24/11/2024

Capers are early this year, the first kilos of capers out of the pickle and drying. The chefs will be happy as we appear to have a decent crop starting this year.

23/04/2023

Just found this write up of Kolophon. Love it.
The Great Australian Squeeze

From The Squeezery 🧑‍🌾🌳🍊


Meet Other Great Australians 🧐🇦🇺🏆

This week, we travel due west from Mildura, where we were last week, to Berri South Australia (in the Riverland region) on the east side of the Murray River close to the Victorian border.


Superstar chefs from all over the globe have all approached Kolophon Capers to buy their award-winning capers.

From a barren, even hostile, patch of dirt in remote Mallee country in South Australia’s Riverland, between Berri and Barmera near the Victorian border, the owners Barry Porter and Helen Jones don’t just grow capers, they have mastered the art of producing world-class products.

Barry and Helen started farming capers in 2006 with 50 plants on a small patch of their four-hectare property. They now grow 250 plants that produce seven products, including buds, berries, leaves and powder. Annual yield includes 150kg of buds and about 100kg of berries.

If you enjoy capers by all accounts, these are the best organically grown capers & caper products you can buy. Plus, they sell out yearly, so you'd be blessed to get your hands on some.

To try your luck, head to their website.

18/08/2022

Our Kolophon Capers received a Bronze medal at Sydney Fine Food Show this year to go with the Gold medal last year. Sue Heward of Singing Magpie won 2 Silver and a Bronze this year. EDIT: Ive just tallied up over the years and that makes 14 medals, Gold, Silver and Bronze we have won with our Capers, Caper Leaves and Caper Berries

31/07/2022

Great write up in the top 100 SA Restaurants for Ellinis at Mallee Estate, Renmark, with 2 mentions of their goto Murray Cod with Local Capers. Kolophon Capers of course

17/05/2022

Just got some feedback re some caper samples I sent to a new young chef in Melbourne. "Have just received the caper samples Mate, Fantastic. Incredible flavour profile to them."

12/02/2022

Great write up of ESSA restaurant in Brisbane today in the Australian by John Lethlean including a photo and very nice comments re our pickled caper leaves we sell to ESSA. https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theaustralian.com.au%2Fweekend-australian-magazine%2Fessa-brisbane-review-this-restaurant-is-smoking-hot%2Fnews-story%2Fb980abafd26990b5a46c0d437c88dc5c&h=AT23t_AY3Bt6jA8AVSJhZimRzeR6QDJiZv5a9XJg1HmKxeSXc3LRk46guNpLZ3bKS0OmqALysKBTRChqKnFgvN9DFZeKNYhveX_a62MJyN-mz6-OJvX4xD9y_rp6kiDtBq6-UDq457Hs2fb_3ijrCCOsvA&__tn__=H-R&c[0]=AT33-DiT8VzmD_qyWAo3yARfP77TdYmmOlk4NSyCJRn9ctleOtlfkzSJmGRAR6M1MjFm91eS-aFh0SLArcnGfrwXJ93XyAcNtjbvTYaNC_f5s70D8YBQFgixp-B8T8bEqHM-wO1AM5l2LudX3vMDRcwGxRA

01/01/2022

A bit of a shock picking this morning, she is a big one.

29/11/2021

GOLD, GOLD, Gold. Kolophon Capers Baby Capers, Gold Medal Sydney Fine Food Show.

19/07/2021

Climate change, just finished pruning the capers today and noticed a couple of plants are already shooting, and that's at least a month early. It looks like the frost prevention will get a work out this season. Any other growers having similiar growth happening?

15/07/2021

I love it when prospective customers give us feedback like this chef from Sydney.
"Hey Barry, The capers are amazing. I love the variance in flavour between the sizes too. Didn’t expect it to be so noticeable in flavour, texture and finish." Aaron.

14/06/2021

Dozens of the caper seeds already germinating, will have plenty of plants ready for planting in Spring

29/04/2021

About 1600 germinated caper seeds into 50mm pots and about 500 small plants into 70mm pots ready for planting out this spring, some are big enough now. The poly house is getting full. I have finally some confidence in seed germination, now about 80% and when I started it was about 1%. Nothing like a challenge.

26/11/2020

The caper seedlings finally germinated in the last couple of weeks and are now growing well, looks as though I got about 70% which is pretty good for the literature talks 10% if you are lucky. Hand pollinated heavy bearers and also a few larger brighter flower garden plants, Tube stock will be ready for planting in April. And plenty of Lady Birds in the caper patch. Great little workers eating up most of the nasty nibblers

12/10/2020

All our fans in Melbourne, we now have a retailer with our capers. He has a great selection of all sorts of Food related products, check out the web site. Grant Eastwood of Wildthings Food,

230 St Georges Rd

Fitzroy North 3068

0411423082

www.wildthingsfood.com.au

An organic wholefoods grocer in Fitzroy North focusing on fresh and local organic produce, healthy and tasty real food. We work directly with local farmers and artisans producers an make sure all our food is ethically sourced.

06/10/2020

The capers are very slow growing this year but the first buds are starting. A few weeks and we will be picking again

12/06/2020

Just letting everyone who has missed our capers and caper leaves in their favourite restaurants around SA over the last few months that: Mt Pleasant Farmers Market tomorrow morning on Petria and Andrew Kohlers THE KUMQUATERY stall. As well as Kumquats they grow capers which are processed to the same high standard by Kolophon. So now your caper fix is available again locally.

08/12/2019

The first couple of kilos of the 2019-2020 harvest coming out of the pickle and being dried ready for sale to top chefs all around Australia. Some retail will also be available later this season. The hail has slowed us down but we will still get plenty this year.