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Charcoal Production - Trial 2

5 years here

On the 18th September 2015 we moved here from our previous life. So many ideas and inspirations. Now? Many different ideas, especially about what is actually important in life and how we live it. A few months ago I started my first trials of producing charcoal from trees that we cleared from our largest paddock. …

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The Watervale Experience – part of the Clare Valley Gourmet Weekend 2018

The Clare Valley, where we live, does wine really well. It also does restaurants really well. What is doesn’t really do at the moment is paddock to plate food experiences, where visitors can meet with farmers, learn about how a particular food is grown and then eat a meal which showcases that food. This is …

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We won a delicious award (AGAIN)! Plus an update on farming heartbreak…

It seems we’ve been busy the past 12 months as we haven’t put anything on the website since we won a delicious. Produce Award in 2017. And the crazy news is that we’ve won another one! This time it’s for our fabulous King Oyster Mushrooms. Like last year, we are incredibly honoured to have even …

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12 Months On

Chris and I have been listening to a podcast called Permaculture Voices for a couple of years now. On on of the episodes there was a great quote which went something like “you’ll overestimate what you can achieve in a year and underestimate what you can achieve in five years”. Neither of us can remember …

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