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Our profiles showcase the very best components of what each LTP member does. From scenery to shopfronts they are generally photo essays from our memorable experiences with each end every LTP member.

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Butterfly Retreats

Retreat
Accommodation, Butterfly Retreats, Family, Gallery, Garden, Local, Mornington Peninsula, Peninsula, Retreat, Stay, Victoria, Vineyard, Wedding, Weekend, Wine
Butterfly Retreats in Red Hill is an experience for the whole family. Set on four acres of cleared grassland with mature European trees, fruit trees and an olive grove, there is something special to experience everywhere you wander throughout this picturesque property. Nestled between Lindenderry at Red Hill and Eldridge Estate, the property is flanked by vineyards providing a colourful vista ever changing with the seasons.

Main Ridge Olive Oil Co

Food & Drink
Australia, Bottle, Burraworin Estate, CBD, Fine Food Awards, Flinders, grocer shop, Grove, Harvest, Local, local pantry, Main Ridge Olive Oil, Mornington Peninsula, Oil, Olives, Paringa, Peninsula, Picking, Purchase, Red Hill, Shoreham, Tim Jupp, Virgin
Tim Jupp is full of surprises, experienced and focused beyond his years. Young and talented, this fine dining chef has moved away from the 80 hour working weeks his chosen profession demands to chef at Commonfolk in Mornington, where the hours are much more conducive to family life. Given that he and his wife Michelle have four children under the age of 11, you can understand his life choices.

Red Hill Truffles

Food & Drink
Australia, Dog, Eat, Experience, Farm, Gather, hunt, Local, Mornington Peninsula, Peninsula, Produce, Red Hill, Taste, Tours, Truffle Tours, Truffles, Victoria, Walk
It’s a sunny, chilly autumn afternoon and Jenny McAuley of Red Hill Truffles is preparing for the busiest season of the truffle calendar. ”The truffle season starts at the beginning of June and runs for 12 weeks,” explains Jenny. “The truffle starts growing in the ground in the first week of December and it takes until the first of June to grow and ripen. The fungus grows on the root of tree, and the tree likes the fungus because the fungus kills the grass around the tree that competes with it for the sugar, water and elements it needs to thrive.

Essence Food for the Soul

Food & Drink
Buy, chef, curries, Curry, Custard, delicious, Dessert, desserts, Eat, Essence, Food, Food for the Soul, Home, Kitchen, Love the Pen, lovethepeninsula, lunch, Mornington Peninsula, Pie, Pies, Portsea, Portsea Hotel, quality produce, quiches, Soup, Soups
When chef husband and wife team Jim and Melanie Houston got married at the Portsea Hotel, little did they know that 10 years later they would buy a business across the road from the Portsea Hotel and live in it with their three children for the best part of a year. That business is now known as Essence Food for the Soul. As chefs, life for Jim and Melanie was busy, particularly with three young children. The long hours took a strain, and they were ready to make a lifestyle change within the food industry. Sometimes everything falls into place and you find the ideal scenario, and this wholesale food business was perfect for the chef team. Essence Food for the Soul is all about the best quality produce made into delicious, heat and serve meals that help the time poor to eat well.

Dolphin Research Institute

Experiences
Australia, Balnarring, Bay, Beach, Boat, Care, Children, Dolphin, Dolphin Research Institute, dromana, environment, Flinders, Hastings, Iseeicare, Jetski, Local, Marine, Mornington Peninsula, Peninsula, Pollution, Protect, Sea, Shoreham, Sorrento
The Dolphin Research Institute is based at Hastings, on the shores of Western Port. DRI’s efforts are focused in the south-eastern region of Australia, especially Port Phillip, Western Port and the Gippsland Lakes.

Georgie Bass Cafe & Cookery

Food & Drink
Breakfast, Buy, cake, Coffee, Cooking, Cooking Classes, Flinders, Food, Garden, Health, Kitchen, Local, lunch, Mornington Peninsula, Peninsula, Restaurant, Shop, Smoothies, Stay, Weekend
Welcome to Georgie Bass, the latest food experience in the heart of Flinders that combines a café & cookery. Inspiration for the name comes from George Bass, the legendary sailor who accompanied his good friend Matthew Flinders when they were charting Bass Strait to Tasmania.

Vulcano Gelato: A Legacy of Authentic Gelato

Food & Drink
Beach, Cafe, Cakes, Children, Coffee, Food, gelato, Ice Cream, Juice Bar, Local, Mornington Peninsula, Pier, Rye Pier, Sorrento, Vulcano, Weekend
In 2008, Vulcano Gelato opened in Rye with the single hearted aim of improving the quality and taste of the universally loved authentic Italian gelato and granita. From our perspective, gelato is the prefect buffer; there’s such an emotional response when you even think of it & when you combine it with the Rye Pier, bay beach & carnival it becomes a powerful combination. We love gelato & we love Vulcano Gelato, we love Rye & we love that they’re all on the Pen.