Like Minds

Four like-minded individuals birthed an idea, concocted naturally over wholesome food and in wholesome company.

A recipe for genius. An invitation for merging brain waves.

Photo by Chloe Isaac

Melissa Morgan, James Rolph, Adam Byrne and Lucy Walker are the Like Minds. They include, respectively, a joyful cook, a coffee guru, and two graphic designers who are united by one common desire: To build and nurture community.

And what they have created epitomises the meaning of community: long benches, fresh food, a vegetable garden, workshops, art, the scent of good coffee, and conversation (tipped with laughter, always). 

Photos by Damien Furey Photography

Nestled in the heart of Avoca Beach on Australia's Central Coast (my beautiful home!), you will find the four Like Minds creating a haven of like-mindedness among locals but also with those abroad. 

Farm to Face

The food you eat and bring to your face has been grown somewhere. On a farm most probably. But under what conditions?

Maybe on a small hobby farm, or maybe on a large plantation. Maybe its been laced in chemicals and supplements, or maybe it hasn’t. Maybe the stock has been feed, nurtured and fairly cared for, or maybe, on the other hand, it has been cruelly treated and harmed before it made its way to your plate and to your belly.

Two girls – best described as vivacious, young and scandalous at heart, and beyond dedicated to their vision – are setting forth to bring this conversation to light.

They are not on a mission to preach what is right or wrong. But they do want people to have the entitled choice to know where their produce comes from before putting it in their bodies - if they want to.

I met with Melodie Tyrer, one half of Farm to Face, at her apartment over looking London Fields in Hackney in London’s east for a Saturday morning brunch of poached eggs, roasted cherry tomatoes, blanched spinach and sautéed mushrooms. As Melodie stirred, seasoned and routinely tossed the ingredients with an obvious confidence and care for her creation, she traced the story of the project’s beginning and fast evolving big future.

Melodie Tyrer

Melodie begins…

“It all started when I met Georgia at a mutual friend’s dinner party in London last year,” she says. “We got talking and laughing and exchanged numbers at the end of the night, but I wasn’t sure when or if we would see each other again because she was living in Edinburgh at the time studying civil engineering” (Watch this video and meet the girls).