Fig Jam

Sheila and Keith Bates rely on their extensive garden for most of the fruit and vegetables they use in their prizewinning preserves. The couple bought the block next to their house in Lucindale and planted it out with fruit trees not long after they moved into town in the 1980s.

Originally from Eyre Peninsula, Sheila started competing in shows when she was about fifteen, following in the footsteps of her mother. ‘I got first prize for my homemade br