Brand Tas

Sally Wise OAM is a bestselling cookbook author and presenter based in the Derwent Valley. She has written 16 cookbooks, including A Year in a Bottle, which has over 100 recipes for preserving fruit and vegetables. Sally is dedicated to helping people prepare nourishing food with accessible ingredients. Known as ‘Tasmania’s favourite nan’, Sally loves to share her cooking experience with children and adults of all ages.

Katherine Reed is a born and bred Tasmanian. She raises beef cattle and mini goats on a 93-hectare property outside Launceston, where she lives with her husband, Tim, and sons, Will and Harry. Katherine has used a wheelchair since 2009. She has since played wheelchair basketball at an elite level and written about her experiences as a mother with a spinal cord injury on her blog, ParaParenting.

Anthony Brandsema’s grandparents first started growing tomatoes in the 1950s. Three generations later, he and his brother Marcus run J & A Brandsema Tomatoes at Turners Beach on Tasmania’s North West Coast. Specialising in cherry tomatoes, Brandsema produce can be found in corner stores, fruit and veg shops, and supermarkets across Tasmania.

Genaro Velasquez and Rosselyn Escalante both trained as veterinarians in Venezuela before they came to Australia to study English. Their passion for dairy farming brought them to the North West Coast. They fell in love with Tasmania and never left. Genaro and Rosselyn now live in Smithton with their children, Gabriel and Diego. They began making Venezuelan-style cheese in 2019, and La Cántara Artisan Cheeses was born.

Kitana Mansell grew up eating Palawa / Tasmanian Aboriginal foods, which are the traditional foods of Lutruwita / Tasmania. Palawa have a deep connection with Country and have been eating off the land and waterways for thousands of years. Kitana lives in Nipaluna / Hobart and has been working at Tasmanian Aboriginal food business Palawa Kipli since she was a teenager, alongside her family and the Palawa community. ‘Palawa Kipli’ means ‘Tasmanian Aboriginal food’ in her language, palawa kani. For Kitana, the best part of her job is sitting around the fire with her community, having a yarn and eating yula (muttonbird) served with a freshly baked wurayni (wattleseed) damper.

Shiloh Longbottom is a Tasmanian illustrator and designer. She works using Procreate, design software created by a clever team of Hobart-based people.

When Shiloh began working on Little Tasmanian, it was just a children’s book. She has since created a whole world around it.