Winter is officially here and the temperatures have dropped accordingly. Now’s the time to pull out those soup recipes, heat up those hot chocolates, and make the most of what Winter has to offer in Australia.

There is plenty of fresh produce available across the winter months, and opportunities to make things like rhubarb and ginger crumble, beetroot dip, a big roast with parsnips, or poached pears.

What’s in season this June:

Fruit

• Bananas
• Carambola
• Chestnuts
• Custard apples
• Fuji apples
• Grapefruit
• Kiwifruit
• Lemons
• Limes
• Mandarins
• Nashi
• Navel oranges
• Packham pears
• Panama passionfruit
• Pears
• Persimmons
• Pink lady apples
• Quinces
• Red delicious apples
• Rhubarb
• Ruby red grapefruit

Vegetables

• Baby fennel
• Baby red capsicums
• Beetroot
• Broccoli
• Brown onions
• Brussels sprouts
• Cabbage
• Carrots
• Cauliflower
• Celeriac
• Celery
• Chinese greens
• Dutch carrots
• English spinach
• Fennel
• Gai lan (Chinese broccoli)
• Garlic
• Ginger
• Jerusalem artichokes
• Kumara or sweet potatoes
• Leeks
• Parsnips
• Potatoes
• Pumpkin
• Rosemary
• Sage
• Silverbeet
• Spinach
• Witlof