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...
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...
Celebrating a bakers dozen
The dynamic duo of Anne-Maree Hagge and Leanne Phillipson are celebrating 13 years in business together in 2013. From humble beginnings, the landmark Bindoon...
Oils ain’t oils
Olive oil is flowing as thousands of trees planted some 10 years ago are delivering a bumper harvest.
Director of Sumich Olive Oil, Vincent Tana...
Paddock to plate
Jack Burton, Managing Director of the Yeeda Pastoral Company, is taking on the big supermarkets with his direct farmer to consumer retail approach.
In 2012...
Beekeeper’s life for Buzz ’n’ Bear
Brendon Fewster (aka Buzz) and Brad Gresele (aka Bear) are Gingin beekeepers who you may spot on a hot February day, tucked away in...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
A first for WA
She is the first purebred Speckled Park heifer born in WA, arriving a week early on June 14th 2012 and weighing 32 kilos. Garry...
It’s a bug’s life
Our local “Bug Man”, Lachlan Chilman has dedicated the last nine years to breeding beneficial bugs in his commercial insectarium
in the Northern Valleys.
These microscopic...