Cherry Darlings

08/09/2025

Foster Carer (or Forever Home) Needed

Lucy is a gentle 6-year-old cat who has been through so much heartbreak this year. 😭💔 After losing both of her loving owners consecutively, she’s now in urgent need of a foster (or forever) home.

She’s on a simple daily ear gel (fluoxetine) to help keep her settled, and with a slow introduction she could adjust to other pets. Mostly, she just needs someone patient and kind who can give her stability and love.

Lucy’s mum was promised she’d always be cared for, and now we need help to keep that promise.

If you can foster Lucy, or know someone who can, please reach out and we will connect you with the rescue team.

Let’s find this sweet girl the safe, loving home she deserves🥹😭

22/05/2025

COOKBOOK CHECK IN -

we are working away on adapting recipes and getting the ball rolling on everything. as we said previously, the timeline is not announced yet as we are trying to figure out how extensive this project is - especially with the strong demand for a physical book. once we have a better idea, we will start to assign a more clear timeline.

we are so excited by how much support we received announcing this project and just want to assure everyone that if we go quiet for a while we are still working on the cookbook!! we are balancing it with some other, more immediate projects (like graduating uni at the end of the year and full on day jobs!)

in the meantime please keep sending photos and memories from Cherry’s and Vego’s to [email protected]

much love

09/05/2025

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CHERRY DARLINGS UPDATE ✨ The team behind a very popular, now closed, local vegan bakery have announced that an exciting new chapter is on the way >> https://hubs.la/Q03lWskh0

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02/05/2025

Photo call-out:

Do you have memories from Cherry’s or Vego’s you’d like to submit for the cookbook?

Please email [email protected] with photos attached, and any details or memories you’d like us to include (space dependant) - please let us know your full name for photo credit.

01/05/2025

Much requested, much anticipated… we are happy to announce we have started to work on an exhaustive recipe book, inclusive of all Cherry Darlings and Vego and Loven It (Vego’s) recipes - sweet and savoury.

We don’t have an anticipated date yet - most recipes are handwritten and need to be digitised to be re-designed for individual quantities - a lot of work needed to get it all book ready. But we will keep yall in the loop and hope you’re as excited as we are ❤️

Lots of love, and missing you all -
Tim and Allie

18/02/2025

💔 Furever Farm

PLEASE READ

This is serious. The most so since our inception.

Furever Farm WILL close within the next couple of weeks if we can not raise funds to keep helping the animals. Our account balance has slipped dangerously low. Only $2000 currently sits within. To give you some perspective of the danger we find ourselves in; this amount of funds cannot pay for a load of hay. We currently have two round bales remaining and we cannot afford to replenish them. This amount will not cover our vet bills. We currently have two animals, Shirley and Bertie, and likely Sweet Pea requiring surgery that we cannot afford. We cannot even afford to pay our sanctuary electricity bill.

The past year has absolutely crippled the sanctuary to the point that we now find ourselves in. We are at the point of shutting the gates, deregistering as a charity and possibly foreclosing on the mortgage that holds the property together as we have depleted personal funds towards the sanctuary. We do not qualify for a personal loan.

There now sits nothing but dirt and rocks on the grounds of the paddocks. The 2024 season, so devastatingly dry, has destroyed ground feed seeing the cost of feed & fodder skyrocket to the point of exhaustion. As we pray for a return to a normal wet season we do so knowing that this, too, would be months off....if at all.

Our account has seen an incoming total of approximately $9'000 with an outgoing of $18'000, a division not uncommon but unsustainable.

We have wracked our brains, currently lose sleep, stressed and cried over the situation that stands as we simply see no way out. Our tears and concerns rest with the animals. What of them? Where do they go? We look at all of the magnificent work accomplished here and with our team. The likes of beautiful Karma. What an inspiration! Scarlet in the past. Another true champion. Sweet Pea, the tiniest of souls drawn the short straw but being helped and saved by the sanctuary. Kit-Kat, Jake, and even old folk such as Malala and P***y nursed comfortably into their beautiful lives.

We feel a myriad of emotions at the moment, as we face the fact that within such a short time it will all be over. Guilt, sadness, frustration, despair. The world needs more sanctuaries, not sanctuaries closing down. We feel at fault.

As clich'ed as this may sound; we are begging you all. It simply has come to that. Please, please donate (tax deductible) if you can. Furever Farm MUST raise our total to stay alive and continue into a (hopeful) future. We understand times are tough, but the animals need all our help.

We also need hay, particularly round bales, desperately. If you can spare some to come to the sanctuary we will be eternally grateful, as will the bubbas.

It is now or never. We thank you all so much for your past help, and we thank you in advance for any help you can give in this desperate time.

Together we can break the chains so the animals remain free.

With so much love,
Darren, Hayley, the team & the animals.

Please share. 🙏

❤️ FUREVER FARM - Where the voiceless come to speak ❤️

Furever Farm Incorporated
BSB: 065505
ACC: 1031 3855

https://gofund.me/9151565b

28/04/2024

WAREHOUSE / COMMERCIAL KITCHEN FOR LEASE

THANK YOU for this weekend, our sale is done and dusted - now that we have most of the equipment out or spoken for we are looking at our kitchen / warehouse lease and finding someone to take it over.

these spaces are in high demand so we would love to see if we could find someone we know who is looking for a commercial space and would be a great fit. all applications will have to go to the land agent but can try to make it a seamless transition.

• location is Kilkenny in a group of other commercial units
• set up for a kitchen and warehouse
• high clearance roller door access
• size is 168 square metres
• we installed our own cool room - paid $5500 plus removal and set up, would sell for $4500 negotiable. if not required we can take it and sell separately
• two toilets
• multiple 3 phase points
• multiple 20 amp plugs
• $1750 a month which includes outgoings and GST
• multiple air conditioning units
• 5-6 different useable sectioned areas

easy parking + right behind Arndale shopping centre

will start doing walkthroughs for anyone interested from May 6, and negotiable on when you could takeover. if interested or have questions just send us a message - please share! ✨

Tim and Allie

28/04/2024

what’s left:

subway oven / proofer ($800)
freezer 1 ($150) - now sold
freezer 2 ($100)
an Adler dishwasher ($600)
and a small range of shelving and benches - prices varying

few other small bits and pieces still left

will be here for another couple of hours or if you’re interested in any of these we will be here tomorrow, or can negotiate a time 🙂

22/04/2024

hey friends,

we are having a closing down hospitality ‘garage sale’ this weekend - warmers, benches, ovens, freezer, slice fridge, shelving, cool room, thermomixes, ingredients, general supplies and equipment, packaging ETC ETC all going very cheap (the more you take the cheaper it’ll get)

Saturday 11-4
Sunday 10-3

Unit 10, 2-8 Gray Street Kilkenny

Come on downnnnn to clear us out and get some good deals. Pls share with your hospo mates 😄✨

15/04/2024

hi everyone!❤️

over the last 2 months since the shop closed we’ve done some thinking and decided it’s truly time to have a proper break.

we had a lot of conversations with customers who wanted to know our next steps and we weren’t sure if we just needed a small rest and would want to get back into taking orders and continuing on the Cherry’s legacy or not

but we’re feeling good about focusing on our respective careers outside of baking and taking the time to recover from that small business stress✨

keep your eyes on our stories to snap up one final run of slices being made this coming week - will post details as the food is made 🙂

PS MAYBE warming up to a cookbook if demand stays high! let’s see how we feel in another few months😝

Tim and Allie x

25/01/2024

NOW 100% SOLD OUT
DOORS ARE CLOSED, NO FOOD LEFT
THANK YOU SO MUCH.

ALMOST SOLD OUT OF ALL FOOD

AT TIME OF POSTING:
LIMITED SLICES
A FEW HOT SAUSAGE ROLLS

THE PLAN IS SHAKES TIL 4:30 AND THEN CLOSING

SO INCREDIBLY ABSOLUTELY OVERWHELMED BY THE TURN OUT😭♥️

25/01/2024

we obviously can’t do doughnuts today but in honour of our long term classics we have triple choc brownie scrolls, strawberry scrolls and snackers scrolls

pie warmer, cabinet and slice fridge full to the brim. let’s do this - doors open at 11

♥️ CDs team