Drinking the stars
“Come quickly, I am drinking the stars,” Dom Pérignon is famously quoted as saying upon taking his first sip of Champagne. Urban myth suggests...
A currant affair
Not so long ago the Great Northern Highway was paved with dried fruit drying racks.
There were once hundreds of currant growers in the area...
Supersprouts
Have you had your serve of sprouts today?
A sprout is at the transitional stage between seed and plant. It is, to put it simply,...
A hard nut to crack
May2012
Brenda and Bill Denham have a Macadamia farm of 800 trees in Chittering.
They planted all the trees themselves, the first 200 were planted about...
Another bet on hay
Farming can be a risky business. For Suzanne and Steve Woods, Calingiri farmers and part owners of Muchea-based business Hay Australia, the decision to...
Christos hospitality
At a time when many people are pulling grapevines out of the ground, and vineyards are seen as a liability, it is refreshing to...
Feeding the birds
When Amos Machlin took on this retirement farming project he didn’t anticipate that his biggest challenge would be keeping the birds away.
With 900 Pecan...
The mighty merino!
There is something quite magnificent about a Merino Ram, they really are the Hercules of sheep.
I’ve had a recent love affair with Merino Wool,...
Blooming Blueberries
Father and son, Derek and Marek Fisher, are understandably pretty excited about their new horticulture venture, blueberries.
For the last few years they have built...
Love of pigs!
To the Howard family of Wannamal, pigs are more than livestock, they are a way of life. Three generations live on the farm, working...
Old vine discovery
When Gail & Dan Bam purchased the 100 acre ‘Glenowen’ property in Bindoon in 1996 they had no idea about winemaking, just a lifelong...
The beauty of bamboo
Peter Jones is passionate about bamboo. After a chance viewing of a bamboo segment on Burke’s Backyard, the former Army officer set out to...
