Dave to the rescue
From ancient Egyptians to our beloved Winnie the Pooh, honey harvesting has been happening in our civilisation for a guesstimated 4500 years now, and...
A fresh approach
There has been an unexpected benefit to sweltering through WA’s record-breaking summer. Joseph Ling, managing director of leading WA citrus producer AGRIFresh, says the...
Zest for tourism!
Golden Grove Orchard, the historic citrus producer nestled in the Chittering Valley, is poised to become a major player in the WA tourism market....
Sweet spot
The Oversby family of Bindoon are expecting a bumper harvest of their magnificent mandarins this season after a disappointing year in 2019 yielded them...
Local citrus packs a punch
Fortunately, the driest May for 36 years isn’t expected to affect our burgeoning local citrus crop. In fact, the warm, dry days have made...
Back to the future
Throughout the West Australian grainbelt shimmering crops of wheat, barley, canola and oats stretch as far as the eye can see – glowing liquid...
Healing with hemp
An almost fatal accident five years ago has led Shay Harris and husband Clint to develop a unique product that beautifully blends both their...
Pandemic production
A COVID lockdown project has bloomed into a productive side hustle for Tony Munns and his six sons; growers of Munns & Sons garlic...
Food ‘shortages’ – is transport the real problem?
As the images of empty supermarket shelves flooded our news feeds the past few weeks — eliciting a mild to medium level of panic...
Skin deep success at Challara
In the early nineties, tired of chasing fly blown sheep around their Badgingarra farm, Peter Wilkinson and his father Ron of Challara Poll Merino...
Berkshire Valley dam overflowing
In 1953 a property known as ‘Exmoor’ in the Berkshire Valley was supported by the government to secure water storage by building — what...
Hay history reaps rewards
In the Bible, chaff is considered the most humble of wheat products, containing little to no value. Yet for the Turner family – the...
