This is Women's Work.
Women's Work is an Australian artisan food brand making small batch relish from heritage recipes passed down through five generations of women. Every jar is handcrafted on our family property beside the Hawkesbury River, Deerubin to the Darug people, its first custodians, from produce we grow ourselves or source from farmers down the road. Naturally gluten free, vegan, no artificial anything.
We exist for people who eat and give with intention: food lovers who read labels, gift givers who want meaning tied up with the ribbon, and anyone who believes the everyday table deserves better than the supermarket aisle.
For the record
Seven medals
Sydney Royal Fine Food Show medals across our range, won five years running: gold, silver and bronze.
150+ stockists
Premium retailers across Australia put Women's Work on their shelves. The good grocers found us first.
Five generations
Every recipe began with Granny Ida and was perfected by each passing of hands since. We are simply the current keepers.
Our name is a reclamation
For generations, the skill it took to feed a family beautifully was dismissed as 'just women's work': expected, unpaid, unseen. We put those words on the label so nobody forgets what they are worth.
The women before us passed down their recipes, and passed up recognition for them. So we learned the lesson they could not afford to: to change how the world values women's work, we have to stop giving it away for free, or for less than it is worth. We have to believe in the value of our own work first.
Every jar carries the ingenuity of the women before us, and every sale is a small correction of the ledger: women's work, priced, praised and preserved.
It started with Ida
The dust was blown off Granny Ida's relish recipe when Kristina, facing an uninspiring line up of mass produced preserves, gave up searching for a replica of the relish she grew up on. The texture was always wrong, the flavour never quite right. So to Granny Ida we turned.
When our garden was in full bloom we whipped through jars and jars of her relish and, being the sharing type, gave them away to grateful friends who kept insisting on paying. Cue our lightbulb moment.
Along the way we realised there was never a secret ingredient. It was the love and care, the sharing and enjoying, that has made these recipes stand the test of time.
Many Hands Make Women's Work
Kristina
The keeper of the recipes. For Kristina, every jar shares creations perfected over generations of family hands, and gives those recipes a future: not as nostalgic relics, but as proof that women's work is always worth the money paid for it.
Madeleine
The voice of the reclamation. For Madeleine, Women's Work is a platform for honest, brave conversations about how 'women's work' was written off as chores rather than craft, and for changing that through attitude and action.
Ian
The believer. Ian works in homage to his grandmother, who carried her family through two wars and the Depression, and his mother, who at 90 still knits for others without asking a cent. He is proof this fight belongs to everyone.
JOIN US AT THE TABLE
Because good food is worth the work.
Taste five generations of women's work, and help us prove its worth.