Meet the locals

Coffee Collective is our very own café, right at The Property Collective HQ.

We're open early on weekdays and Saturday mornings. The specialty menu is where it gets interesting: single origins, filter, and whatever's on that week alongside the usual suspects. There's also a coffee truck that goes wherever it's needed, and barista training for anyone who wants to make a better cup at home.

The cup in your box is ours too, made with Fressko. Bring it in and we'll fill it.

Eryn Marshall is a Canberra artist working across painting, sculpture, installation and live illustration. Her work is about connection and imperfection, and it's the sort of thing that's hard to walk past without stopping.

The deck in your box is hers. Fifty-two cards and two jokers, built around thirteen characters, each one a bit different from the next. It's a celebration of not being polished, on an object most people never look at twice.

Eryn was named Canberra Young Business Woman of the Year in 2025, and donates a share of every sale to the Butterfly Foundation.

Li Peng Monroe started Jasper and Myrtle in Canberra in 2015. The name comes from two places that matter to her and her partner Peter: jasper, a stone found in Western Australia where Li Peng spent years, and myrtle, a native herb that grows in northern New South Wales where Peter is from.

They make chocolate the long way. The cacao beans come from Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, sourced by Li Peng and Peter themselves, and everything after that happens here. Most chocolate arrives at a factory already made. Theirs doesn't, and you can taste the difference.

They've won a stack of awards for it, which surprises nobody who's tried a bar.

Redbrick roast specialty coffee on Newcastle Street in Fyshwick, and run cafés across Canberra.

The bag in your box is Coffee Coffee, their classic blend. It's built from beans grown by two of their closest producing partners, one in Brazil and one in Colombia, and it leans toward toffee and chocolate rather than anything sharp or fruity. Redbrick made it to be the best version of a normal cup of coffee, which is a harder thing to get right than it sounds.

It'll work however you brew it. If you want their recipes for espresso, filter or plunger, they're in your gift box or on the Coffee Coffee page.

Vino Friendo is a small Canberra label made by Angus Raddon. He works exclusively with Italian varieties, and the whole idea is wine you open with people rather than wine you think too hard about. The name says it: vino per amico.

Your bottle is the Bianco, a straight Fiano. Angus fermented it on skins for three weeks and aged it in amphora for seven months, which gives it citrus and lemon leaf up front, something softer and more tropical underneath, and a salty finish that makes you want another glass.

He reckons it's very good with roast chicken. We're not going to argue.

A note: Vino Friendo wines are unfiltered and unfined, so a little cloudiness or sediment in the bottle is meant to be there. They're vegan friendly too.