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The island advantage

Earth tumbles from the small, slim carrot that chef and farmer Rodney Dunn has just pulled from the ground. He rinses it and hands it over. It’s sweet and crisp; the best carrot I’ve had

“Why did it taste so good?” I ask. “It’s eating it straight after it was picked,” Dunn says. “When carrots get stored, the green tops utilise the sugar in the root trying to stay alive. Day by day they deteriorate in flavour because the tops are on.”

We’re wandering The Agrarian Kitchen farm, half an hour from Hobart. In Sydney, Dunn was apprentice to famous chef Tetsuya Wakuda; later he became food editor of Australian Gourmet Traveller magazine. The family left the mainland for rural Tasmania a decade ago to recreate the system of farming used before the Industrial Revolution. Guests spend a third of the day gathering in the garden, one-third cooking and one-third eating.

It is beautiful here — enough so

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