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VEGETABLES, FLOWERS and rainbow eggs

DRIVING through the countryside, I feel a contented familiarity here. Although I haven’t visited for years, it’s the same paddocks rolling by that I would have scanned with a child’s eyes. The same warm sun gently lulling thoughts into a contented wandering state, while surrounded by the soft hum of active Hunter Valley country life.

Today the afternoon light dances across green paddocks, land that for far too long has been stripped of any colour due to a lingering drought. There’s been a delicious amount of recent rain here though, and sitting in a garden nestled on the outskirts of Vacy, NSW it’s evident what a combination of garden love and a steady

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