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CLOCKWISE, FROM TOP LEFT

PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY MARK ROPER

A selection of farmhouse furniture and wares under the stairs in the shop; the restored vintage kitchen ﬁreplace with Victorian bus scroll; Julie in The Black Hen’s workshop space; Julie’s dam and Indian runner ducks that lay the best cake-making eggs and help keep the dam weeds down.

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CLOCKWISE A vintage Australian Ensign ﬂag and ceramic tumblers by Adriana Christianson sit on repurposed small drawers from a dressing table that was destroyed but the drawers saved; the couple’s chook pen with Hetty hogging the limelight at the front; a swing in a tortured willow tree in the garden with Lucky the rooster.

it is of Australia, reflecting the contemporary farmhouse style she lives and breathes. Her life, which she writes about, is also a lure for those in search of simplicity, sharing notes about a Sunday spent in the shed working on preloved furniture for the shop, or baking a fruit tart. Or, how Biscuit, views the day. Or, the morning she arrived at the shop to find she’d left her vintage bike outside overnight, grateful that no-one had taken it. Increasingly, pieces are now made by Noel, who balances his own maintenance business with restoring furniture for The Black Hen. Much of the custom-made furniture in the upstairs workshop space has been cleverly salvaged, fixed, repurposed or resurfaced by Noel. “I am so grateful for Noel because, if he was the smallest percentage not behind me, I would have been up the creek,” says Julie. “But he’s always wanted it to work for me. Now it’s working for both of us.” Julie, who’s 47, has finally been able to embrace the creative working life she had longed for, after a long career in aged care. It might not be as early as she would have liked, but it’s as if she is now making up for lost time. She hosts regular workshops, bringing in stylists, artists and writers. You can tell, whether it’s a customer swapping stories across her shop counter, or a social-media post from afar, that The Black Hen is an inspiration for those who may still be dreaming.

The Black Hen, 29 West Church Street, Deloraine, Tasmania. Telephone 0437 833 201; theblackhen.com

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We celebrate the arrival of spring with one of the country’s best rose growers, travel to Tasmania’s rugged west coast and enjoy a delicious baking special!

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A driveway lined with ﬂowering plums welcomes visitors at Jo Maxwell’s Rydal property in NSW’s central west (see page 46).

Forget about the cold and visit all the very best gardens, festivals galleries and restaurants in the final month of winter.

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NSW

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Head to Alice Springs to celebrate our desert and its Indigenous peoples as artists from remote central Australian communities perform in concerts, parades, street theatre, storytelling, comedy and more as part of the inclusive festival. (08) 8952 2392; alicedesertfestival.com.au Immerse yourself in all things camellia at Aldgate’s Stangate House

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Enjoy the rustic charm of the romantic Hedges Cottage.

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Linguine with lobster, cherry tomatoes and basil, a dish to be found in the dining room (left) of Locale at De Bortoli.

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Books are taking over the town of Mudgee for the annual festival. This year, Stella Prize winner Charlotte Wood is among the line-up of fabulous authors speaking, dining and mingling at an array of events over the weekend. Some bookings essential. mudgeereaders.com

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Embrace the delights of chocolate at the Chocolate Winterfest in Latrobe.

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Indulge your creative side at a spring workshop at McGregor School.

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MICHELLE BRIDGES AFTER STARRING IN

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I WAS BORN in Calvary Mater Hospital in Newcastle, the second of two girls. The first time we moved was when I was still a baby — I’d have trouble counting the times I’ve moved since then. We first lived in Forster, then Taree and then Tuncurry, which was where my parents’ marriage broke down. I was only four then and my sister, Tracey, would’ve been nine. From there, the three of us — Mum, Tracey and I — moved to Barraba in the New England region of NSW to live with my grandparents on my father’s side. Nan, whose name was Natalie, and Grampsy, or Mervyn Henry Charles Bridges, owned the Barraba Motel, where we all lived together. My first school — the first of many — was in Barraba. Mum would walk me and Tracey there every day, and then she’d go back to work at the motel. >

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HOME GLEN HUON TASMANIA

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The pantry in ceramicists Nanna Bayer and Zsolt Faludi’s Huon Valley home is painted traditional Finnish red, just like the exterior. FACING PAGE One of the many apple trees in the couple’s orchard. The pair try to grow as much of their own food as possible. 32 COU NTRY ST Y LE AUGUST 2016

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together to create pieces that are both beautiful and functional; how they take pleasure in challenges that require them to think outside the box; and how, much like their chimney, they draw you into their charming world in the Huon Valley. Rewind six years and their lives looked completely different. Nanna was living in one of the world’s largest artistic communities, Fiskars, in her homeland of Finland, perfecting the art of hand-building her distinctive fine porcelain pieces in a studio she shared with her brother.

Zsolt, an acclaimed wheel potter, had moved to Tasmania from Hungary in 1984 when the Iron Curtain was “already crumbling”. He was working as the head of the ceramics department at the School of Visual and Performing Arts in Launceston, returning to his weatherboard cottage in Glen Huon — about an hour south of Hobart at the other end of Tasmania — only for weekends. And from these very different parts of the world, they came together in, of all places, a pub in the small NSW country town of Gulgong in 2010. A group of Finnish ceramic artists, of which Nanna was one, had been invited to attend a ceramic conference there. Only three of the nine made it due to the Icelandic volcano ash clouds that had almost entirely grounded air traffic. “There are bigger forces that make things happen,” Nanna says. “My friend and I were among the first to be able to fly out of Helsinki. I really think I was meant to come here, it was my destiny.” Zsolt came up to the mainland for the same conference because he was interested to see some visiting Hungarian potters. At the pub, where all the potters would gather at night, they met and very quickly fell in love. What followed over the next year-and-a-half was a “Skype love” intermixed with a few trial periods of living together, first in Tasmania and then in Finland. In 2012, they decided to move full-time to Zsolt’s 1.5-hectare property in Glen Huon. >

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While Nanna’s Finnish stove and their homemade chimney take pride of place in the kitchen, there are small shelves integrated into the tiles behind the stove that are ideal for holding fermented produce. FACING PAGE Wattle from the couple’s garden sits in a vase made by Zsolt.

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for movies as diverse as Phar Lap, Gallipoli and Wolf Creek 2. More often that not, this has been with the help of his wife, Krissy, though there’s been plenty on her own agenda, thanks to an international showjumping career. It’s only natural, then, that their patch of dirt reflects that passion. Set on eight hectares at Mount White in the heart of Brisbane Water National Park, an hour north of Sydney, this has been their home since 1986. “When we bought the place, it didn’t look anything like this,” recalls Heath. “It was an old sandstone quarry full of dead tractors and junk, and the house was a funny little fibro cottage with an outside dunny. It was very cheap because of that.” Armed with a D8 bulldozer and descriptions from neighbours who remembered the property as it used to be, they coaxed the ground back into rolling hills and more or less left it at that. For the time being, they were content to have space for themselves and their four horses, particularly with Krissy’s sights set on representing Australia in the showjumping World Cup, which she did in 1997 in Sweden. By the time the couple found themselves with the headspace and cashflow to build the house of their dreams, they’d been in that fibro cottage for 18 years. “We were struggling to decide what to build so it would look beautiful and colonial, but would be really simple to live in,” says Krissy. That’s when Heath remembered a house he’d seen years before in a book called Historic Homesteads of Australia. By complete coincidence, Krissy’s mother owned that same book, and they wasted no time finding the photo he’d remembered, of Balala Station at Uralla in the New England Tablelands. “Just like many of the old stations, it was a conglomerate of different buildings, each with a different job,” he explains, such as a shearing shed, station office, workers’ quarters, and so on. With that as their inspiration, they plotted out a series of separate structures linked by wooden walkways. “We had our plans ready by the time we went to Mexico for The Legend of Zorro in 2004,” says Krissy. “And Heath took the next two years off to build it.” Construction methods used were as close as possible to the way Balala Station would have been built in the 19th century, going so far as to use hand-beaten lead ridge-capping, as well as roofing nails rather than more modern screws. The roof is a patchwork of repurposed >

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“Heath trained racing camels for the sheikh in Abu Dhabi.’ ”

Heath made the dining room table himself from Oregon wood, while the samovars and platter on the ﬁreplace came from Baghdad. FACING PAGE Heath and Krissy with Okkie, the white thoroughbred, who was rescued from the dog meat sales. Bryan sits guarding Wilbur (lying down), who sadly died a couple of weeks after our shoot. Both are bull-mastiﬀ crosses; Matilda waits outside the kitchen for Heath.

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CLOCKWISE, FROM TOP LEFT Lara tacked up outside the stables wearing a Hawkesbury River Platinum Showjumping Saddle designed by Heath; Krissy feels the luckiest person in the world to wake up every day to the idyllic view from the top gate down the paddocks; hats, bridles and boots gather outside the kitchen door; the master bedroom with a stunning four-poster bed.

In summer, Heath and Krissy use the mosquito net over the bed, with the French doors open and ceiling fan on — no air-conditioning needed.

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Jo and Michael Maxwell’s home at their Rydal property, Chapel House, was originally a Franciscan-monk seminary. FACING PAGE The simple beauty of the Narcissus “Geranium”. 46 COU NTRY ST Y LE AUGUST 2016

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welcome change AFTER BUSY CAREERS IN THE LEGAL WORLD, ONE COUPLE FIND HAPPINESS AND PURPOSE PLANTING DAFFODILS IN THEIR CENTRAL-WEST GARDEN. WORDS CER I DAV ID PHOTOGRAPHY M A R K ROPER

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s she strides through her garden in wellies and a chic cable-knit sweater, her little dog Bill darting ahead, it’s hard to imagine Jo Maxwell never had any intention of moving to the country. But it’s true. “I loved the city,” she says, casting her mind back. Sydney born and bred, Jo ran a barristers’ chambers bustling with 42 lawyers, and enjoyed life at that pace. “I liked going to restaurants and to see shows, and buying gorgeous clothes.” Then, at dinner one evening in 1998, without warning, her husband Michael brought out a brochure about a house on a large plot of land in the NSW Blue Mountains. “Everyone passed it round and said it was lovely, and I said, ‘Why are we looking at this? I’m not interested.’ He said, ‘Well, you’d better be because I bought it.’” Michael, a barrister himself, had been in the mountains visiting his brother’s winery and came across the leaflet for Chapel House at a service station. It turned out the property in the tiny village of Rydal — population 80 — belonged to the artist John Olsen who’d been trying to sell it for some time. “Because they hadn’t had any luck through various agents, they’d moved to the DIY method, taking photos and sticking them on an A4 sheet with typed descriptions underneath,” says Jo. “And it worked — on my husband!” Michael’s dream was that it would be a holiday getaway. “He thought we’d have these fabulous weekends with family and friends,” Jo says. “It all sounded very romantic.” The reality ended up being a little different, once the extent of their new kingdom became clear. As well as the main house, which was originally a seminary built by Franciscan monks in 1920, there was the Queen Victoria Inn — a disused hotel from 1832, which was on the historic Cobb & Co route — and Olsen’s large studio space. Oh, and don’t forget the Olympicsized dressage arena and stables, all set on 80 hectares, four of which had been cultivated into lawns, orchards, a formal rose garden and a lake with a flock of resident geese. Clearly this would intimidate even the most accomplished of groundspeople. As for the Maxwells? “Neither of us understood the work involved,” says Jo. “I didn’t know what was a flower and what was a weed, or when to do anything, so we definitely struggled. We used to leave work on Friday night and battle the traffic up here. Then we’d work in the garden all Saturday and Sunday till 9pm in wellies and Driza-Bones, in rain and snow, before going back to Sydney for the week. I look back and wonder how we managed it.” Still, after muddling through for a couple of years, Jo was surprised to find she’d started enjoying herself and switched to working part-time to allow for longer stretches in the garden. Then she decided to really commit. “I realised we had something beautiful here, and that I needed to know how to look after it.” She gave up work altogether and spent five years studying horticulture at >

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WOOL DECOR ATING

CLOCKWISE, FROM TOP LEFT Ashford ‘Corriedale Slivers’ wool in Butterscotch, $8 a ball, from Wondoflex. ‘K1S1’ extreme knitting yarn in Natural Merino White, $180 a 1.5kg bump, from Little Dandelion. ‘Table Series’ mug, $24, Shelley Panton Studio dish in Mustard, $32, salt spoon, $5, concrete tray, $49, and paper scissors, $56, all from The Shelley Panton Store. Heirloom ‘Merino Magic’ 10 ply wool in Gold, $5 a ball, Touch ‘Possum’ 8 ply wool in Rust, $33 a ball, Naturally ‘Amuri’ 8 ply wool in Chocolate, $18.50 a ball, and Morgans 9mm knitting needles, $13, all from Wondoflex. Painting in background, stylist’s own. FACING PAGE, FROM LEFT TO RIGHT Vintage wire basket, $120, from Scout House. ‘K1S1’ extreme knitting yarn, as before. Stool, $550, from Weylandts. Ashford ‘Corriedale Sliver’ wool in Nutmeg and Butterscotch, $8 a ball, Touch ‘Possum’ 8 ply wool in Rust, $33 a ball, Heirloom ‘Easy Care’ 8 ply wool in Blood Orange, $5.50 a ball, and knitting needles, as before, all from Wondoflex. Fameg ‘Classic Bentwood’ armchair in Dark Oak, $245, from Remodern. ‘Supersoft’ wool throw rug in Desert Red, $184, from Waverley Woollen Mills.For stockist details, see page 149.

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TOP ROW, FROM LEFT TO RIGHT ‘Ralph’ throw in Mustard, $169, from The Shelley Panton Store. Clothes pegs, $12.95 a set of 25, from Scout House. Men’s wool socks in Mid Grey, $18.95, from Pussyfoot. ‘K1S1’ extreme throw, $1095, from Little Dandelion. Wool throw in Ash, $299, from St Albans. Vintage coathanger, stylist’s own. ‘Merino’ slip dress, $150, from Kuwaii. BOTTOM ROW, FROM LEFT TO RIGHT ‘Classic’ long wrap in Milk, $379, from Cable Melbourne. ‘Packer’ knit in Ecru, $249, from Driza-bone. ‘Cable Baby’ cardigan in Grey Marle, $69, ‘Babywool’ legging in Grey Marle, $39, ‘Babywool’ crew neck in Milk, $135, and ‘Eliza’ drape vest in Tobacco, $399, all from Cable Melbourne. Men’s wool socks in Charcoal, $18.95, from Pussyfoot. Girl’s jumper in Mist Grey with White Spot, $64.95, from Snowdrop Merino. ON GROUND Linen ﬂat sheet in Kohl Black, $320, from Bedouin Societe. Large leather tub, $265, from Curious Grace. Cable Melbourne Merino Wool Wash, $15. For stockist details, see page 149.

Even the act of caring for wool has its rewards, with the scent of eucalyptus wafting from the line.

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One little orphan lamb looking right at home.

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STYLING ASSISTANTS ALISON TURNBULL, JACKIE FAZEKAS

salvaged style INVENTIVE WAYS TO STORE AND DISPLAY COME TO LIFE IN THE HOME OF CAROLINE CARTER. WORDS AND ST YLING NATA LIE WA LTON PHOTOGRAPHY CHR IS WA R NES/ WA R NES + WA LTON

Stylist Caroline Carter’s Melbourne home is an ever-changing canvas for her creative ideas and secondhand ﬁnds, including this vintage plaster mould of car designer Ferdinand Porsche. FACING PAGE Caroline in the living room with children Lila, 6, and Jett, 12. The shelving unit was made from vintage storage crates. 58 COU NTRY ST Y LE AUGUST 2016

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story repeats itself in many ways in the home and life of Caroline Carter. The stylist and visual merchandiser has always had a passion for collecting antique and vintage wares. At one point it culminated in her own he works part-time for Melbourne concept nes and has private clients, too. This allows o spend with her family in a home that has become a passion project of another kind. The house, in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne, was where Caroline’s grandmother lived, and where she spent a lot of her childhood. Caroline and her husband Darren bought the Ringwood house in 2010 after her grandmother passed away. “It is a really lovely neighbourhood,” she says. The basic brick 1970s house with three bedrooms was completely original and untouched when they bought it. “I knew we could make it look fresh and simple,” she says. “The house has such a good position with beautiful mountain views and, of course, very fond memories for me.” Because they had never renovated before, the couple entrusted the house to their builder, the brother of a friend. They had a tight budget so didn’t change anything structurally but made significant cosmetic changes: removing carpets, polishing floorboards, replacing aluminium door and window frames with timber, and rendering walls. She painted everything Dulux Natural White. “I just wanted a really simple, classic look,” Caroline says. “When in doubt, keep everything white!” The house has been decorated slowly and with consideration over the years. While Caroline has an obvious preference for antique and vintage wares, she gravitates towards pieces that can serve multiple uses, such as the wardrobe that has also been a TV cupboard. Caroline’s penchant for redecorating has been something she’s enjoyed doing since she was a child. However, she started to seriously collect 12 years ago when she had her own store. She looks for objects that can make a big impact. “I don’t have a huge budget and often fall in love with what people would consider junk,” she says. “I enjoy the challenge to make something from nothing.” Caroline also likes to mix those pieces with a few “investment” or authentic pieces in line with her look, which she describes as a mix of French, Nordic, industrial and country influences. While she regularly edits her collections, Caroline says she rarely goes out hunting for specific pieces. “If it finds me, it comes home and I make it work somehow,” she says. “Even if it means changing a room completely.” >

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STYLE SECRETS

Caroline shares her best ideas to create clever storage and eye-catching displays. 1. MULTIPURPOSE PIECES “I love things that have multiple uses,” says Caroline of the zinc drum that doubles as bedside table in a bedroom. “These would be great anywhere, even as planters.” Behind, an antique French wooden drying rack adds a sense of height and sculpture to the room. The French linen bedding is from Scarlet Jones.

2. STORAGE AS DISPLAY Caroline wanted something big to fill the living room and provide storage and display space for her collection of white ironstone and porcelain, much of which is from Carlton store French & Co. She discovered these crates — originally from a tulip farm — at a vintage market and bought all 21 of them for about $300. Best of all, they can move from room to room.

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3. IMPACT PIECES In the dining room, Caroline took a unique approach to decoration. “I fell in love with a chalkboard from Waverley Antique Bazaar and thought it would be the perfect piece of ‘art’ for the house,” she says. “I always look for impact pieces that don’t cost the earth.” And while the chalkboard is functional, it isn’t used. “It has the perfect patina as is.”

4. TREASURED COLLECTIONS Chalkboard paint features on one wall in the kitchen, where Caroline was inspired to hang her growing collection of vintage trays and cake tins. Her plan is to eventually fill the whole wall. To counter the ‘busyness’ of a display like this, she prefers to, “concentrate a collection on one wall, then have a bit of breathing space on the others,” she says.

5. THE ART OF DISPLAY The idea to frame a pair of 19th century French portraits — bought from an antique dealer — on the living room wall with wire was sparked when Caroline spotted wire used as a window grill in an antique shop. She tried to buy it from the owner for months. “I don’t think he understood why I wanted it so much!” she says.

6. SINGULAR STYLE Behind the dining table, Caroline created an installation using a vintage French bottle drying rack and a mix of differently-sized vintage Belgium tart tins, which she found at South Melbourne store Izzi & Popo. “They were the perfect fit!” she says. “I was after a collection of one thing to make it simple and have more of an impact.” For stockist details, see page 149. You can follow Caroline on Instagram @thatgirlcaroline07

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TROY RHOADES-BROWN TOOK A RISK WHEN HE OPENED MUSE, A FINE DINING RESTAURANT IN A HUNTER VALLEY WINERY, BUT HARD WORK AND PERSEVERANCE HAVE PAID OFF BIG TIME. RECIPES TROY R HOA DES-BROW N WORDS BA R BA R A SW EENEY PHOTOGRAPHY M A R K ROPER ST YLING DAV ID MORGA N

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Goat’s curd, zucchini, mint & pine nut salad (recipe page 68) Tap into the blend of tropical and herbaceous notes, and lingering fresh aftertaste of the 2015 Mud House Sauvignon Blanc. FACING PAGE Troy Rhoades-Brown opened Muse Restaurant in 2009 and it’s now regarded as one of the NSW Hunter Valley’s best.

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Fried brussels sprouts, maple syrup & speck Match with the herbal and honeyed nuances, and the distinctive smoky ﬁnish of the 2015 Coriole Chenin Blanc. BELOW Troy with wife and restaurant co-owner, Megan.

GOAT’S CURD, ZUCCHINI, MINT & PINE NUT SALAD Serves 4 (See photograph, page 67) 2 large zucchini, trimmed ½ teaspoon salt ½ bunch mint, leaves picked ⅓ cup pine nuts, roughly crushed 80g Binnorie Dairy goat’s curd

DRESSING 2 tablespoons lemon or lime juice 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil ¼ teaspoon caster sugar

Using a mandolin or vegetable peeler, cut zucchini lengthways into ribbons. Place in a large bowl and sprinkle with salt. Toss to combine. To make dressing, whisk lemon juice, oil and sugar in a bowl until combined. Add mint, pine nuts and dressing to zucchini, and gently toss to combine. Arrange on a serving platter, and top with goat’s curd.

IT ALL STARTS with a conversation about food. “Our menu comes from the food we love to eat,” says chef Troy Rhoades-Brown of Muse Restaurant and Muse Kitchen in the NSW Hunter Valley. “We all sit down, the cooks, the chefs, and we talk — about what we’re eating and cooking with. You have to cook and serve food that you love eating. We’re into black garlic at the moment.” These talks encourage experimentation and result in novel combinations. They’ve also inspired Troy to get out and explore his own backyard, seeking out people who grow food nearby, which in turn fuels more inspiration. A Hunter Valley local, Troy grew up in Lake Macquarie and went to Hunter TAFE, where he was awarded the Brett Graham Scholarship in 2005. Presented to outstanding students, the scholarship allowed Troy to do work experience at Brett’s restaurant, The Ledbury, in London. “At TAFE, everyone knew Brett came from Newcastle and was a local boy made good. Seeing what he was doing, running a Michelin-starred restaurant at such a young age, spurred me on.” Afterwards, Troy returned to his job as a chef at Pokolbin institution Robert’s Restaurant, where he met wife, and business partner, Megan. “Straight away we knew we’d open a restaurant together. We may not have been as polished or experienced as we could have been, but we knew that’s what we wanted.” Troy was in negotiation for a small site when the restaurant at Hungerford Hill Wines came up. “My father-in-law, who runs a successful family business, said: ‘You could have a lovely family business here, but with a place like Hungerford Hill, if you apply yourself, and you can apply yourselves, you can make it a success.’ It frightened me, the size of it, but I was young, naive and ambitious.” Seven years on, Troy and Megan stand at the helm of two of the region’s most awarded restaurants, renowned for both exciting food and exemplary service. The restaurants hold three Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide chef’s hats between them and Muse, the more formal, was included in the Financial Review Australia’s Top 100 Restaurants 2016. Not a bad result for a local boy. Muse Restaurant is at Hungerford Hill Wines, 2450 Broke Road, Pokolbin, NSW. (02) 4998 6777; musedining.com.au

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FRIED BRUSSELS SPROUTS, MAPLE SYRUP & SPECK Serves 4 1 teaspoon vegetable oil 80g smoked speck, rind removed, cut into batons ⅓ cup roasted hazelnuts, roughly crushed ¼ cup pure maple syrup extra vegetable oil, for deep-frying 500g brussels sprouts, trimmed, halved ½ lemon 1 teaspoon sea salt ﬂakes

Heat oil in a frying pan over a medium heat. Cook speck, stirring occasionally, for 8 minutes or until golden. Transfer to a large bowl. Add hazelnuts and maple syrup, and stir to combine. Half fill a deep, heavy-based medium saucepan with extra vegetable oil. Heat to 190°C over a medium-high heat (when oil is ready, a cube of bread will turn golden brown in 10 seconds). Add half of brussels sprouts to hot oil, taking care as it will spit, and deep-fry for 3 minutes or until golden. Transfer to a large plate lined with paper towel. Repeat with remaining sprouts. Add brussels sprouts to speck mixture. Squeeze over lemon juice, sprinkle with sea salt, and toss to combine. Serve immediately. >

Roast spatchcock, clams & semillon verjuice butter (recipe page 70) Enjoy the lemon and melon succulence, spicy ﬂavours and crisp lime acidity of the 2011 Hungerford Hill Collection Semillon.

ROAST SPATCHCOCK, CLAMS & SEMILLON VERJUICE BUTTER Serves 4 (See photograph, page 69) 4 x size 5 spatchcocks* ½ cup vegetable oil 750g Jerusalem artichokes, scrubbed, halved 2 red onions, peeled, each cut into 8 wedges 6 garlic cloves, unpeeled 500g Cloudy Bay diamond shell clams 6 slices prosciutto ⅔ cup semillon verjuice** 100g butter 4 sprigs rosemary crusty bread, to serve

Preheat oven to 200°C. Tuck spatchcock wings under breasts and secure legs with kitchen string. Drizzle 2 teaspoons of oil over each spatchcock and rub into skin. Season with sea salt. Combine artichokes, onion, garlic and remaining oil in a large roasting pan. Season with sea salt. Place

spatchcocks on vegetables. Roast for 50 minutes or until spatchcocks are golden and cooked through. Meanwhile, heat a large frying pan over a medium-high heat. Add clams, prosciutto and verjuice, and bring to boil. Cover and cook for 8 minutes or until clams open. Add butter and rosemary, and stir until butter melts and is incorporated into cooking liquid. Place a spatchcock on each serving plate. Arrange vegetables beside spatchcocks and spoon over clam mixture and sauce. Serve immediately with crusty bread. *Available at specialty poultry shops, butchers and some supermarkets. **Available at some supermarkets, gourmet food stores and delicatessens.

SALT-BAKED PORK BELLY WITH APPLE & GINGER SAUCE Serves 4 1.4kg-piece pork belly, skin on 1 cup table salt 1 small savoy cabbage, cut into 8 wedges 100g butter, melted 1 bunch green onions, trimmed, ﬁnely sliced diagonally

MARINADE 1 cup Chinese rice wine (shaoxing) ⅓ cup soy sauce 3cm-piece ginger, peeled, sliced 4 garlic cloves, peeled, sliced

APPLE & GINGER SAUCE 4 Granny Smith apples, peeled, quartered, cores removed 1 lemon, juiced 100g butter ½ cup caster sugar 40g ginger, peeled, cut into 4 pieces 2 whole star anise

To make marinade, combine rice wine, soy sauce, ginger and garlic in a shallow ceramic dish. Place pork belly, skin-side up, in dish. Do not allow marinade to cover skin. (The uncovered skin will dry out in the refrigerator, and become crisp and golden during cooking.) Refrigerate, uncovered, overnight to develop flavours. To make apple and ginger sauce, place apple, lemon juice, butter, sugar, ginger, star anise and 1/3 cup water in a medium saucepan over a medium heat, and stir until sugar dissolves and mixture boils. Reduce heat to low. Cover and cook for 15 minutes or until apple is soft. Remove and discard ginger and star anise. Transfer apple mixture to a food processor and process until a smooth, thick sauce forms. Preheat oven to 140°C. Place a wire rack in a large roasting pan. Remove pork from marinade. Place pork, skin-side up, on wire rack. Pour enough water into roasting pan to reach a depth of 2cm. Cover pork skin with table salt. Roast for 1 hour 45 minutes. Meanwhile, line a large baking tray with baking paper. Place cabbage wedges on prepared tray and brush generously with melted butter. Season with sea salt. Roast for 1 hour or until charred. Cover with foil to keep warm. Remove salt crust from pork skin. Increase oven temperature to 240°C and roast for a further 15 minutes or until skin is crisp and golden. Rest for 15 minutes. Slice pork belly and arrange on a serving platter with cabbage wedges. Top pork belly with green onion. Serve with apple and ginger sauce. >

TROY RHOADES BROWN COUNTRY CHEF Salt-baked pork belly with apple & ginger sauce The 2015 Robert Stein Half Dry Riesling has the varietal acidity to cut through the pork, plus the sweetness to lift the apple and ginger sauce. FACING PAGE Muse Restaurant is housed in a modern glass and stone building at Pokolbin’s Hungerford Hill Wines.

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WARM ORANGE & TONKA BEAN CAKE WITH CREAM Serves 8 5 navel oranges 2 tonka beans* 6 eggs, at room temperature 1¾ cups caster sugar 1½ cups plain ﬂour, sifted 2 cups double cream wild fennel fronds, to garnish (optional)

SYRUP ½ cup caster sugar ⅓ cup brandy

Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease a 23cm round springform pan and line with baking paper. Finely grate rind of 3 oranges and place in a small bowl. Finely grate

1 tonka bean over orange rind. Using an electric mixer, beat eggs and sugar for 15 minutes or until pale and fluffy. Add orange-rind mixture and beat for 1 minute or until combined. Using a spatula or a large metal spoon, gently fold in flour until well combined. Pour into prepared pan and bake for 1 hour or until a skewer inserted into centre comes out clean. Cool in pan for 10 minutes, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely. To make syrup, place sugar, brandy and 1/3 cup water in a saucepan and stir over a medium heat until sugar dissolves. Bring to boil. Simmer for 5 minutes or until syrup thickens. Remove from heat. Remove skin and pith from all oranges. Cut cheeks from

oranges and chop into 2cm pieces. Add to syrup and stir to combine. Cool. Preheat oven to 180°C. Line a baking tray with baking paper. Place cake on prepared tray. Bake for 10–15 minutes or until cake is crisp on outside and heated through. Transfer cake to a plate. Spoon orange and syrup over cake. Spoon half of cream onto centre of cake. Finely grate remaining tonka bean over cream. Garnish with fennel fronds, if desired. Serve with remaining cream. *The dried seeds of a South American tree, tonka beans are finely grated into sweet and savoury dishes. Their flavour

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BEEF CHEEKS WITH PEDRO XIMENEZ Serves 4

2kg beef cheeks ⅓ cup olive oil 2½ cups red wine 1 carrot, peeled, diced 2 celery stalks, trimmed, diced 2 brown onions, peeled, diced 6 garlic cloves, peeled, crushed 4 dried bay leaves 1 cinnamon stick 3 strips orange rind 2 x 400g cans chopped tomatoes 1½ cups Pedro Ximenez sherry ½ cup sultanas ½ cup ﬂat-leaf parsley leaves buttered pasta, mashed potato or soft polenta, to serve

Preheat oven to 200°C. Place beef cheeks in a flameproof baking dish. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons of oil and rub to coat. Season with salt and pepper. Roast for 30 minutes or until browned. Transfer beef to a plate. Place baking dish over a medium-low heat. Add 1 cup of red wine and simmer, scraping base of dish with a flat-edged wooden spoon to remove caramelised juices, for 3–4 minutes or reduced slightly. Set aside until required. Reduce oven temperature to 150°C. Heat remaining oil in a flameproof casserole pan over a low heat. Add carrot, celery, onion, garlic, bay leaves, cinnamon and orange rind and cook, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes or until onion mixture begins to caramelise. Add tomatoes, red wine from baking dish, remaining red wine and half of sherry, then stir to combine. Add beef cheeks and cover with a tight-fitting lid or foil. Bake for 3 hours or until beef cheeks are tender and can be pulled apart with a fork and tongs. Add remaining sherry and sultanas, and stir to combine. Cover and bake for a further 30 minutes or until cooking liquid is reduced to a sticky sauce. Spoon among serving plates and top with parsley. Serve with buttered pasta.

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Milk. Made (Hardie Grant Books, $55), by the Bruny Island Cheese Company’s Nick Haddow, delivers a lot of bang for your buck, as it walks the reader through the world of cheese — and it’s an impassioned stroll. The book is designed to make better cheese buyers and eaters of us all and, like Nick’s prose, the recipes, photographed by Alan Benson, offer incentive for the reader to seek out and enjoy great Australian-made and international cheeses.

BARBARA SWEENEY BRINGS HOME THE BACON — AND THE LATEST COOKBOOKS.

Fresh macadamias are super crisp and creamy, and once you’ve tasted one, you’ll never go back. Trees drop fruit for almost seven months a year, from March to September, so fresh nuts are in constant supply. In 2016, the Australian macadamia industry had its biggest season — ever.

BENCH PRESS ‘Oslo’ table, from $3485, from The Wood Room. For stockist details, see page 149.

HOT TO TROT! Know your habanero from your Hanoi? Chinchilli’s hot sauces, salt and pastes all use different varieties of chilli — all grown in Kingaroy, Queensland. 150ml jars from $4.99. chinchilli.com.au 76 COU NTRY ST Y LE AUGUST 2016

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CREAM OF THE CROP

If you’re interested in food, words and food writing, then this event may be for you. Our resident food writer Barbara Sweeney curates Food & Words, an annual food writers’ festival. It’s a full-day program of food writers, cookbook authors and chefs talking about their work. Refreshments and lunch are included, and there’s a stall selling cookbooks and other foodie tomes. Saturday September 10 at The Mint, Sydney. For details, visit foodandwords.com.au

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Beetroot and goat’s cheese salad with apple cider gel.

“The rush is addictive,” says Laura Baratto, head chef at Chiswick at the Gallery, located in the Art Gallery of NSW in Sydney. “It’s all about meeting deadlines head on.” Laura thrives in the kitchen. Having started her career in the kitchen at ARIA Sydney, she also worked at Chiswick Woollahra when it opened in 2012 and moved over to be the head chef at Chiswick at the Gallery when it opened in 2014. “I love getting creative with produce. I look at a raw ingredient, like beetroot, and think of ways I can use it to put personality on a plate,” says Laura. Fresh produce is at the heart of the menu at Chiswick at the Gallery. In fact, Chiswick has its own kitchen garden to ensure there is always a fresh supply of seasonal vegetables. “I work closely with Peter Hatfield, our gardener, in regards to what is being planted and how I can use the produce in the menu,” says Laura. “This winter we have artichokes, kale, snow peas, beetroot and an abundance of winter herbs including tarragon, marjoram, rosemary and thyme. At Chiswick at the Gallery, the menu is all about the freshest of produce done simply. We only use Australian produce so we can support local and sustainable growers. We stay in close contact with the suppliers so we know what is in season and what is new in the market.”

Chiswick at the Gallery, The Domain, NSW chiswickrestaurant.com.au For the recipe, visit: hn.com.au/prideandproduce

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2016

Flinders Island lamb with cauliflower puree and anchovy sauce.

“I grew up in a family of 12 kids. My father is Croatian and my mother Australian. Everything revolved around the table,” says Joe Grbac, chef and co-proprietor of Saint Crispin in Melbourne. “Food is so important in European culture. At mealtimes we’d all gather around the table, we’d eat, we’d laugh, we’d cry – so many monumental moments happened around that table.” At Saint Crispin, it is all about the dining experience – from the exquisite food and wine to the staff and the atmosphere. The kitchen is known for a contemporary menu that’s changed daily according to nature’s bounty. “I change the menu according to Mother Nature. Sometimes summer goes for a long time so we make the most of the tomatoes; other times, like last spring, we had no local white asparagus in season whatsoever!” Joe feels it’s important to know the origins of his produce. “I have a green thumb and am a proud gardener. I think you can tell when love has gone into growing something.” As for the Flinders Island lamb that is the star ingredient in Joe’s recipe (pictured above), Joe says the lambs are free to graze on unspoilt pastures and salt bush, resulting in a perfect balance of flavour and tenderness. “Flinders Island lamb always inspires me to create something memorable to celebrate the top-quality produce.”

Saint Crispin, Collingwood, Vic saintcrispin.com.au For the recipe, visit: hn.com.au/prideandproduce

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2016

Butter-poached lobster with dashi and zucchini noodles.

Being described by Matt Moran as the “best fish cook in the country” is quite an accolade. And it seems Zac Sykes is living up to his reputation. Since moving to Sydney in the late 1990s, Zac has worked with some of the stars of the cooking world, such as Neil Perry, Stephen Hodges, Greg Doyle, Peter Doyle and now Matt Moran. Zac has built his reputation working at leading restaurants, including Bistro Mars, Pier, Omega, Fishface, Bistrode, Felix, Est, Coogee Pavilion, and The Fish Shop before landing his role at North Bondi Fish. “I love the creative aspect of being a chef – putting your passion on a plate and watching people’s faces as they eat your food is pretty amazing,” says Zac. “I get my inspiration from the seasons. Australia has incredible produce, which I use to create simple, light, seasonal seafood dishes.” When it comes to cooking lobster, Zac says he loves the decadence and extravagance of working with such a magnificent piece of produce. “You feel like a king the moment you first taste it,” says Zac. The lobsters used in this dish (pictured above) come live from Tasmania. “I think it’s important to know where your produce comes from so you can pass the knowledge on to the guests; they appreciate knowing they are eating local and sustainable produce.”

North Bondi Fish, Bondi, NSW northbondifish.com.au For the recipe, visit: hn.com.au/prideandproduce

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2016

Walnut pudding with Fernet-Branca ganache and fennel ice-cream.

From working at Quay in Sydney, The Ledbury in London and Le Meurice in Paris, to running her own pop-up in Morocco, Analiese Gregory experiences the world through food. “Travelling has been invaluable to my career. I got to experience other food cultures and had exposure to ingredients that I might not have had otherwise,” says Analiese. Back in Australia, Analiese has recently joined forces with the Acme crew to head the kitchen at Bar Brosé in Sydney. They transformed a narrow bar in Darlinghurst and offer an enticing menu with a loosely French angle – there’s also a bit of Chinese influence, as well as Spanish and Moroccan. Dairy is an essential part of the menu. “We use a fair variety of dairy products at the bar. I get my milk and cream from Country Valley in the South Coast, I’m getting camel milk from Queensland, buffalo yoghurt from Shaw River and goat and sheep yoghurt from Meredith Dairy,” says Analiese. “I inoculate the cream to make crème fraîche, we make ricotta with the cow and goat milk, and buffalo yoghurt becomes a sorbet. The applications are endless.” The fennel is a nice twist to Analiese’s recipe (pictured above). “I drive past fields of wild fennel when I visit friends in the Southern Highlands. Seeing the fennel in bloom gave me the inspiration for this dessert.”

Bar Brosé, Darlinghurst, NSW barbrose.com.au For the recipe, visit: hn.com.au/prideandproduce

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WHERE Harvey Norman JOE GRBAC, SAINT CRISPIN Come and enjoy an exquisite gourmet experience as acclaimed chef Joe Grbac from Saint Crispin in Melbourne demonstrates how to cook Flinders Island lamb. Using the best fresh produce, Joe will share his tips and tricks while cooking three special dishes for you to enjoy with wine.

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worry, you’ll be right, just wing it.” There is something about trusting your instincts and then putting your head down and going for it.

What have been the benefits of running the business from Cooma? Building an online business in a country town, there were no rules or case studies when we set out — we were making it up as we went along. There was a freedom to that and gradually everyone around us seemed to become curious and generous in helping make it work. I often wonder if we would have enjoyed the same experience in the big smoke. You can build great company cultures wherever your organisation is, but I do believe being in Cooma has given us a leg up. For one, you can’t misbehave when everyone knows everyone! I’ve also observed that people who have chosen to live in the country for their lifestyle, and have job roles they are passionate about, express a heightened gratitude — and this has a positive trickle effect in the workplace and the community.

that it’s hard to source great talent in regional areas? I am always being asked if there are skill shortages because we are rural, and I have to say I am constantly surprised at the amazing and talented people who live in our region — so many wonderful people with great skills are hiding in the hills here! Plus we are starting to attract people with specialist skills who move here for their career and the lifestyle. On another note, we enjoy the luxury of a large, 3000sqm workspace, an outdoor area and free parking for all our staff, and I think it would be very difficult to find, at the same cost, a similar space if we were city-based.

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Is it still important for birdsnest to be known as a Cooma business? We love where we live and we love being part of this community, so we often feature the region in our photo shoots and talk to our customers about our part of the world. It is so beautiful here, we can’t help but want to share it! Cooma is where our story began and the store is >

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FROM TOP LEFT Merino sheep in the paddock at Jane and Oliver Cay’s 1600-hectare property in Bungarby, south of Cooma; the family’s hardworking boot room.

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Jane Cay’s LOCAL FAVOURITES

The Cooma native and founder of birdsnest shares the best of her home town and the surrounding region.

THE SWEEPING MONARO LANDSCAPE

“My daily drive from my home in Bungarby to work in Cooma is 65km each way, and the views and open Monaro landscape are enchanting and make me appreciate where I live.”

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“Cooma is just over an hour to some incredible experiences — we ski in Thredbo every weekend in winter and, in summer, pop down the range to the beaches at Merimbula and Pambula on the NSW South Coast. Canberra is an hour down the highway, too, so we can get a culture and city fix easily. The best of all worlds!”

LEBANESE 3 ROSE’S RESTAURANT

“I am often spotted at Rose’s Lebanese Restaurant, with wonderful, generous hosts Tony and Rebecca Nassar. They grow all their produce organically just out of town on their farm and have won many food awards.” 69 Massie Street, Cooma. (02) 6452 4512; rosesrestaurant.com.au

4 FEED CAFÉ

“Located right near our store and warehouse, this café is a favourite with all the birdsnest girls. Chef and owner

Anabelle Rivers sure can cook! She also caters for many of our events.” Shop 2, 234 Sharp Street, Cooma. (02) 6452 7569; feedcooma.com.au

LOCAL SINGER CIELLE MONTGOMERY

“Cooma’s latest claim to fame is country singer Cielle Montgomery, who has just launched her debut EP, Walking Free. She plays at a range of local venues and all our team is raving about her beautiful voice.” ciellemontgomery.com.au

Wild Brumby, Cnr Wollondibby Road and the Alpine Way, Jindabyne. (02) 6457 1447; wildbrumby.com

LEA GUEST 8 PENDER ACCOMMODATION

“The Post Office and Pender’s Barn at Sonja Schatzle’s Pender Lea property are seriously beautiful accommodation options in the Snowy Mountains. We’ve done a few winter shoots for birdsnest on location here.” 1056 Alpine Way, Crackenback. (02) 6456 2088; penderlea.com.au

GALLERY WANDERLUST 6RAGLAN & CULTURAL CENTRE 9 FESTIVAL “The Raglan Gallery plays host to the talents of our local artists and is in a beautiful location, set on Cooma’s iconic Lambie Street. I have some really special pieces from here on the walls at home, two from talented artist Kate Litchfield.” 9-11 Lambie Street. (02) 6452 3377; raglangallerycooma.com

WILD BRUMBY SCHNAPPS DISTILLERY

“Jindabyne and the Crackenback Valley is home to a few of my favourite local haunts including Wild Brumby Schnapps Distillery, owned by artist Bradley Spalding, which has locally made schnapps and great lunches.”

“I’m inspired and excited about the international yoga, music and meditation festival Wanderlust coming back to the region in February 2017. It came to Thredbo for the first time earlier this year and it was amazing.” wanderlust.com

VALLEY 10 PINE ESTATE

“We’re looking forward to trying the new Atrium Restaurant at Pine Valley Estate. It’s just out of town and, with Liz Scarlett in the kitchen, is sure to be wonderful.”

pinevalleyestate.com.au

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Social worker Jennie Keioskie with her two dogs, Motley, a blue healer, and Dougal, a border collie/Koolie cross, near Jindabyne in the NSW Monaro region.

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WITH HELP FROM LIONS CLUBS, GRATEFUL FARMERS HAVE RECEIVED MUCH-NEEDED DISASTER RELIEF. WORDS V IRGINI A IMHOFF PHOTOGRAPHY PETER TA R ASIUK

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EVERY YEAR WE’RE brutally reminded that we live in a land of fire, flood and drought. And for every natural disaster that occurs, there are farmers around Australia who suffer huge losses of infrastructure, stock, pasture and hay stores. It was after the devastating fires in Gippsland and the High Country that started in late 2006 and burnt for several weeks destroying a vast area of farmland, that Graham Cockerell, was driven to action. He founded the Need for Feed Disaster Relief project, run by Packenham Lions Club, where he is outgoing president. “I have a hobby farm at Upper Beaconsfield and I gave one load of hay from my own place — and that only worked out to five small squares per farmer in the burnt area,” says Graham. “I came home and rounded up some mates and spoke to the Lions Club. A neighbour gave us a semi load of hay, and that got us publicity. The local paper called it ‘Need for Feed’ on the headline, and we liked it.” Graham is coordinator of the Lions’ Need for Feed Disaster Relief and, in the decade since the project began, it has called on the community spirit for donations of fodder and funds, and volunteers to transport and organise distribution. “We had Black Saturday fires in 2009, the Kerang floods in 2011, Nathalia floods in 2012, and the Heyfield fires in 2013. Two years ago we took hay to the Clarkefield fires,” he says, naming just a few. “And we have been supplying fodder for four fires in Victoria this year.” Two fires were close to Ballarat, north-west of Melbourne — at Scotsburn just before Christmas and at Mount Bolton in February — where Need for Feed swung into action bringing much needed hay. As in the previous year, on Australia Day, Need for Feed once again rallied volunteers and a convoy of vehicles to help the fire-affected areas. “We use social media and had more than 100 volunteers on Australia Day. We got 55 vehicles; semitrailers, trucks and utes, and cars towing horse floats carting hay and a tonne of dog food,” says Graham. “People came from all over; a couple came from Sydney, someone came from Mount Gambier... we delivered $70,000 of fodder on one day.” Among them, Adam Meek and Vinnie Lister, both from Ballarat, answered the call. “I was sitting at home and I saw Need For Feed were asking for help at Scotsburn,” says Adam, who works as a farmhand on Avenir, a property at Skipton. “We had a lot of hay donated by farmers and my boss donated my time, a 12-metre trailer and a hayshed to store the hay.” Meanwhile Vinnie also got in contact with Graham through Facebook and said, “What can I do?” He ran a collection among his mates, and took a trailerload of lucerne out to Scotsburn, too. Then in February this year, when fire raced along the ridgeline of Mount Bolton, destroying a home, farm buildings, 104 COU NTRY ST Y LE AUGUST 2016

fencing and burning 1300 hectares, according to Graham, Adam and Vinnie were among those “roped in again”. “Graham sent me a text message and within six hours I had a semi load of hay together,” says Adam. “Everyone involved in this effort is really dedicated and whenever they need me, and whatever I need to do, I’m there in a heartbeat,” Vinnie adds. Often those who have received help before give back to other disasters, says Graham. “We got a largest single donation ever from one family from the other side of the Grampians who had been burnt out before,” he says. “It was eight semitrailer loads.” Meanwhile local farmer and president of Mount Bolton Lions Club Noel Edwards and his neighbour Kate Serrurier organised a depot for the hay on her property. Noel’s property had a small spot fire and Kate’s had 10 hectares and fencing burnt. “We knew the hay was coming and Kate and I offered to distribute it,” Noel says. “We had nine families who got the hay.” “The hay arrived within two days of the fire and it has been used up until now,” Kate adds. “The speed with which everyone rallied around was amazing.” Among those who also lost pasture and fencing on their farms at Mount Bolton were Julie and Les Taylor and Margaret and Tony McDonald who were grateful for the donated fodder. “The fire burnt the whole ridge. We were very fortunate to get the stock out, but we lost 12 kilometres of fencing and the bit of pasture that we’d reserved was all burnt,” Tony says. “Kate rang to say that the Lions Club had feed here, and Noel brought some up to us. We had two loads of 16 big squares that tided us over.” Likewise Julie and Les moved their stock to the safest paddock, put their horses in yards and the dogs in the stables. “The Mount is just above us and we lost all our bush and fencing,” Julie explains. Graham has noticed how natural disasters have an uncanny habit of occurring around holidays and at Christmas when government departments are shut down, making the Lions’ networking, local Lions groups and the efforts of volunteers and locals all the more invaluable. “We contact the local municipality to find out who needs help, or people contact us through Facebook. We found the Mount Bolton Lions Club here, and locals who had organised themselves into a group. You can’t replace local knowledge for finding who needs help.” And Graham has also noticed how the spirit of goodwill, and cooperation among the farming and wider community

Victoria has been in drought,” he says with pride.

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K A R A’ S L I T T L E B L A C K B O O K Best View

Best Coﬀee

Best Homewares

Best Vintage Wares

Best Bread

Best Egg and Bacon Roll

Best Sweet Treat

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meet our winner As in previous years, we were overwhelmed with stories capturing and interpreting our theme ‘Thread’ in a variety of ways — all writers generously sharing creative efforts, many of which are deeply personal. As a writer, there is always a vulnerability felt when giving your work to someone else to read, but courage is an essential attribute and finding it, along with crafting your writing skills, comes only with practise. The Crafter’s Husband is an intimate and poignant portrait of farming life. Narrated by the farmer’s wife, she tells the story of her husband’s strength and stoicism in the face of many great challenges — only to ask whether that very strength will lead to his undoing when he is confronted once again. Congratulations to Megan Low of Victoria, for a beautiful story. At the time Megan wrote her entry, she was living on her family’s dairy farm in Victoria’s Gippsland region. She was an eyewitness to a bad season, water shortages, and a hot, unrelenting summer — working with her parents just to keep stock alive. Then her grandmother tragically and unexpectedly died — Megan wrote this story on the day the decision was made to turn off her grandmother’s life support. We had a strong short list and found it particularly hard to separate the top two stories. You can read a selection of the other stories, which range from the dark to the delightful, on our website. Visit homelife.com.au/country-style/short-stories

The Crafter’s Husband THE CRAFTER SITS

HER HUSBAND IS AS FADED AND WORN AS THE CLOTHES SHE MENDS.

The path from Jo’s house to her studio. She is being followed by her kelpie/healer cross dogs, Fatsy and Darkness. FACING PAGE Embroidery hoops and tapestry bobbins adorn the wall.

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CLOCKWISE, FROM TOP LEFT Using the skills learnt from her grandmother and mastered at RMIT, Jo produces all her knitwear herself; strolling with Darkness among the gum trees on Fallonville. Wearing her ‘Let it Be’ shawl, Jo takes inspiration from the colours and textures of nature; her great-grandmother’s old sewing machine and table were passed down to her from her grandmother and take pride of place in the studio; two of Jo’s most successful designs — her ‘Right Angles’ crochet top and ‘Crazy Maze’ loop wrap; the colours of Jo’s yarn shelf. FACING PAGE Some of the many knitting needles, crochet hooks and paintbrushes of the trade.

Michael Inwood checks the ﬂeece of an ultra-ﬁne merino on his family’s 800-hectare property, Toulon. FACING PAGE Some of the 2500 breeding ewes. 120 COU NTRY ST Y LE AUGUST 2016

NEW WAY FORWARD

THREE GENERATIONS OF FARMERS EMBRACE SUSTAINABILITY TO GIVE THEIR PROPERTY A FUTURE. WORDS TR ACEY PR ISK PHOTOGRAPHY FELI X FOR EST

CLOCKWISE, FROM TOP LEFT The Inwoods (from left): Michael, Emelia, Joshua,Therese, Prudence, Angus and Charlotte; wool-bale stencils; Basil the kelpie keeps things moving; Emelia, Prudence and Charlotte in the shearing shed; Michael and Therese do an inspection in the electric ute; Michael at the classing table; the season’s ﬁrst two bales.

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merino flock is being farmed with a distinctly 21st-century approach. “We’ve got a lot of passion for trying to be sustainable on the farm,” Michael says. “There’s a lot of uncertainty and farmers really do need to be optimists. We want to make sure we leave this farm in better condition that when we came onto it.” Not only are the couple’s innovative farming practices scoring points with environmentalists, they’re also helping produce super-fine and ultra-fine wool for the exacting Japanese and Italian markets. In fact, the farm’s wool was among that used to make a suit that Australia gave Prince William as a wedding present in 2011. Michael’s approach is also gaining interest from the broader farming community, particularly his use of solar power and electric vehicles. Solar panels on the shed have enough capacity to charge an electric ute that can tow a seed drill and sow a crop. “It’s a world first as far as we know,” Michael says. “We also have an electric four-wheeled side-by-side all terrain vehicle and we’re about to get our first electric motorbike, too.” The Inwood’s 800-hectare property, Toulon, has been home to four generations of Michael’s family since his grandparents bought the land in the mid-1940s. Michael’s parents, Jim and Elizabeth, still live nearby. “My dad’s very involved but he’s in his 80s, so he’s starting to take a less active role,” Michael says. “But he’ll still jump on the side-by-side, and go and move sheep for me.” The original farmhouse, now derelict, is a stone’s throw from Therese and Michael’s home. “My grandparents lived in that house, without power, and my father was born there,” Michael says. During the 1950s wool boom, his grandparents moved into the brick house where Therese and Michael have lived since 1994, shortly before their first child, Charlotte, now 21, was born. The family today also includes Angus, 20, Emelia, 17, Prudence, 13, and eight-year-old Joshua. When the couple moved into the “intact and adequate” house, very little had changed since the 1950s. “The old kitchen was very small and the only way to cook was an old slow-combustion stove,” Michael says. “Homesteads on farms are a real issue because you just get what’s there and then you have to work with it.” While Michael is proud his parents are still involved in the farm, he doesn’t assume his children will automatically follow suit. “Charlotte is doing PR and business at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst and Angus is in his third year of a fitter-machinist apprenticeship. I think nowadays kids have lots and lots of options — sometimes they need to go away and look >

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FROM ABOVE “Joshua is the household’s alarm clock,” says Therese. “At shearing time he’s the ﬁrst up and ready every day, busting to get down to the action of the shed”; sheep brought to the shed for wool testing and classing for breeding.

at other things before they decide they want to come back to farming. Because they know that it’s hard work all the time.” Those hard realities were most evident during the drought that was “on and off” for 10 years from 2000. “We’d get some rain and stop having to feed — but after a moment of relief, we were back into it,” Michael recalls. Therese believes the drought taught the family valuable lessons. “Our children have been really involved when things have gone wrong,” she says. “It’s an opportunity I don’t think a lot of other children, living in more protected environments, have been exposed to.” That exposure included hand-watering some 4000 trees. Michael remembers the kids and their buckets with some pride, as those saplings are now healthy reminders of the farm’s survival. The long spell of hardship made Michael and Therese realise traditional land management techniques had to make way for more sustainable practices. “Michael’s approach is ‘How can we get nature to do the work for us?’” Therese says. “It goes into everything, from water management to pasture care.” To ensure they could care for their sheep no matter the weather, they reduced the flock — 10,000-strong at the beginning of the drought — by nearly half. But the biggest change was the introduction of rotational grazing, giving each section of pasture time to recover before sheep returned to feed. The pasture’s plant diversity was also widened, which resulted in noticeable health improvements. Post-drought, good fortune has come the Inwoods’ way. In 2011, Michael won a “life-changing” Nuffield Farming Scholarship, which saw him spend some 19 weeks studying agriculture in a host of different countries.

to thrive for generations to come. For more information about Toulon and the Inwood’s sustainable farming practices, visit engagingnature.com.

SHEEP AND WOOL ON SHOW Discover more about the scope and diversity of the wool industry at one of these great events. Australian Sheep and Wool Show, Bendigo, Victoria. July 15th–17th. (03) 5443 9902; sheepshow.com Sheepvention, Hamilton, Victoria. August 1st–2nd. (03) 5572 2563; hamiltonshowgrounds.com.au Narrogin Long Wool Day, Narrogin, WA. August 5th. (08) 9885 9049; merinowa.com.au Rabobank National Merino Sheep Show, Dubbo, NSW. August. (02) 6869 9653; merinonsw.com.au Jackie Howe Festival, Jondaryan, Qld. September 2nd–4th. (07) 4692 2229; jondaryanwoolshed.com.au For more information on Australia’s wool industry, merino wool fashion and more, visit woolmark.com

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looking ahead

Fifth generation farmer James Walker with his wife Manny, children James junior, three, Chloe, six, and Sophia, seven, and Maggie the cocker spaniel on their farm near Longreach.

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CLOCKWISE, FROM ABOVE LEFT The artesian dam where the water is always warm is perfect for family recreation, reﬂecting the stunning sunsets that are the focus of farm tours, and is soon-to-be the new home of the Outback Yacht Club; the gracious century-old Camden Park homestead, which has been home to the Walker family since the 1950s, has been updated by the current generation; Camden Park wool stencil; James, Chloe and Sophia make use of the new servery window from the kitchen; the wide horizons over Camden Park were once admired by Queen Elizabeth; the woolshed might be temporarily empty until the farm is once again stocked with sheep, but is still a point of interest on farm tours. FACING PAGE The dusty drive, where Manny’s car got bogged after recent rains.

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The Walkers are hopeful the sheep will be back in the shed soon. RIGHT While the stock is gone, James takes time to do some fencing.

in 2014 . “We flew in 30 CEOs from around Australia to do an analysis of a case study to try to come up with new opportunities and long-term strategies to survive the drought.” Other summits have followed, including one last year in the UK about the distressed dairy industry there. James grew up at Camden Park and took over as managing director of his family farm operations in 2003. He met Manny, who came from Kilcoy, in south-east Queensland, to Longreach on a teaching post in 1999. They married in 2006 and moved into Camden Park’s homestead 11 years ago. Manny and James have since renovated and updated the rambling homestead for their young family, and redeveloped the garden. In spite of drought and constant invasion by starving kangaroos, it remains a lush oasis. “We’ve done a lot of work on the house — rebuilt verandahs, opened up inside, and we’ve just done a new kitchen and painted the whole house white,” says Manny, who is currently working part-time in distance education. In Sir James’s day, the homestead was a hub of social activity and has a ballroom that Manny and James use for day-to-day family living. “Sir James entertained a lot, but since then the ballroom was just not lived in,” she adds. Camden Park entertained Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip on a 1970 visit when Sir James was running a Santa Gertrudis beef stud. “The Queen had a look at the stud and had tea on the verandah,” says Manny. “She was quoted as saying, ‘There’s nowhere else in the world where you can see 360 degrees and not see anything man-made,’ ” James says.

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These days, many visitors who experience the vast horizon and spectacular sunsets over the Mitchell grass downs are there for the farm tours and sunset dinners. There is a bar on the water’s edge and a bird’s-eye view from the high tower overlooking the artesian bore and dam. “The water comes out of the bore at 60 degrees, and the dam is always warm,” says James. “People love to watch the sun set over the water here — some say it’s better than at Uluru.” The ideas keep flowing, and so does the Walkers’ positive outlook. In October, Camden Park will become the home of the new Outback Yacht Club. There’s to be a launch evening complete with a sports-celebrity ticketholder — and a gala ball. “All just in the name of fun!” James adds. For information, visit camdenparkstation.com.au, agrihive.com.au and outbackyachtclub.com.au

CLIMATE CHECKS

There is a range of online resources available to woolgrowers wanting to better manage climate risk. and seasonal forecasts. climatekelpie.com.au Long Paddock — climate management information for woolgrowers. longpaddock.qld.gov.au climate change and trend maps. bom.gov.au/watl/

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MIX TEXTURES TO CREATE LAYERS WITH A DISTINCTIVE STYLE. ABOVE RIGHT Witchery ‘Button Yoke’ knit, $129.95, and ‘Indra’ pants, $189.95. eb&ive ‘Carmel’ snood, $39.95. F.G. Reynolds Equestrian ‘Andalucia’ boots, $529. FACING PAGE Sander wears Witchery ‘Rupert’ jacket, $279.95, and ‘Picnic’ knit, $129.95. Boden jeans, $109.50. Trenery ‘Oscar Suede Double Monk’ shoes, $279. Annabel wears Marcs ‘Edie’ shaggy coat, $279. Witchery ‘Arianna’ tie jumper, $169.95, and ‘Textured Ponte’ pants, $99.95. Sambag ‘Winnie’ ﬂats, $200. For stockist details, see page 149.

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ABOVE Annabel wears David Lawrence ‘Viona’ coat, $449. Celeste Tesoriero ‘Bad Blood’ turtleneck, $330. Sander wears Gant ‘The Curly’ coat, $799. Trenery ‘Jacquard Spot’ crew knit, $129. Boden jeans, $109.50. FACING PAGE Annabel wears Jag ‘Melton’ jacket, $299.95. COS ‘Kafun’ top, $115. Witchery ‘Textured Ponte’ pants, $99.95. Witchery ‘Nicole Crossbody’ bag, $169.95. Sander wears Marcs ‘Benny’ jacket, $199. Marcs ‘Admiral’ jumper, $139. Boden jeans, $109.50. For stockist details, see page 149. Hair and make-up by Annette McKenzie for Nars @ Mecca Cosmetica

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DO YOU HAVE SENSITIVE SKIN? CHANCES ARE YOU THINK YOU DO. JULIETTE WINTER ASKS THE EXPERTS HOW TO CALM A REACTIVE COMPLEXION.

PHOTOGRAPHY PRUE RUSCOE STYLING LARA HUTTON HAIR AND MAKE-UP NAOMI MCFADDEN

IT’S A DISCOMFORTING statement: “Whether you know it or not, you have sensitive skin,” says Paula Begoun, author of The Best Skin of Your Life Starts Here (Beginning Press). Although it sounds alarming, there is logic behind it — irritation is, by its very nature, irritating for everyone. The only difference is in the reaction. Some skin types will deal with it silently, while others will respond with indignation — redness, dehydration, stinging and itching is your complexion’s attention-grabbing cry for help. In the midst of such a skin tantrum, there’s just one red-hot question on sufferers’ burning lips — is there a magic soother? Sadly, no, there generally isn’t an overnight fix. You need a bit of patience (and often a lot less product) to calm reactive skin. “Understanding what your skin needs for your skin type is vital, but it’s equally important to know what your skin doesn’t need,” explains Paula. “That’s critical because the very skincare products you’re using may, in fact, be exacerbating the problems you’re trying to fix.” It’s not just harsh acid peels that can irritate skin — UV rays, pollution, cigarette smoke, poor diet, fragrance and hot water are all damaging. “These all trigger an inflammatory process that leads to cumulative damage, resulting in the deterioration of collagen and elastin, depletion of diseasefighting cells, and out-of-control free-radical damage,” says Paula. So, start by slathering on sunscreen, using lukewarm water for washing your face, eating a fruit and veg-rich diet, and using gentle fragrance-free skincare products. “Sensitive skin is often the result of a defect in the epidermal lipid barrier layer, allowing irritants, microbes and allergens to penetrate the skin,” says Emma Hobson education manager for the International Dermal Institute and Dermalogica. “It is believed 50 to 55 per cent of women perceive their skin to be sensitive. The trigger factors, however, are mostly due to the changes in environmental factors, especially pollution, dietary changes with foods containing chemicals, and sun exposure.”

If your skin does react, it needs a good moisturiser, one that will act as a protective barrier and repair skin at the same time. “Find moisturisers that will help shield the skin against the environment and control and protect moisture loss,” says Emma. “Look for ones made with silicones that coat and protect the skin, coupled with evening primrose oil and shea butter to moisturise and prevent further moisture loss.” When your skin is dehydrated, it’s tempting to heap on the moisturiser, but there are other ways to boost hydration levels. “To reduce the need to apply lashings of moisturiser — both costly and unnecessary — firstly spritz the skin with a toner that contains hyaluronic acid,” says Emma. “The hyaluronic acid holds approximately 1000 times its own weight in moisture, so you only need a pea-sized blob of moisturiser.” Sensitive skin still needs protection from the sun, but finding a sunscreen that doesn’t irritate can be tricky. Often physical sunscreens (those with titanium dioxide and zinc oxide) are least likely to irritate, but the downside is they tend to have a less-desirable consistency. Chemical sunscreens (such as avobenzone) are lighter, less greasy and not as shiny, but can cause some skin types to react — if you have rosacea, be particularly careful and always patch test first. In fact, it pays to patch test with any new product as the list of potential irritants is long — alcohol, fragrances, soap, menthol, peppermint and eucalyptus oil are on the mustavoid list if you suffer from rosacea. Having said that, the list of soothers is just as extensive — check labels for ingredients such as evening primrose oil, lavender, licorice, avocado, sea buckthorn, red hogweed (boerhavia diffusa), oat kernel (avena sativa), ginger and bisabolol (derived from chamomile). In essence, the key to dealing with a skin reaction is to be ultra gentle — avoid the common triggers and start nourishing the skin with products that will rebuild a damaged protective layer. As Paula stresses, “You will see potentially dramatic improvements to your skin simply by avoiding irritating products and learning to be gentle.” >

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a non-abrasive exfoliant, such as Clarins Gentle Exfoliator (125ml, $48), to sweep away dead skin cells, brighten and ensure your skincare is being properly absorbed.

TREAT ING T HE MOST sensitive skins, Avène uses thermal spring water to soothe and nourish. Avène Tolérance Extrême Cream (50ml, $58.95) for hypersensitive skin is free from common irritants such as fragrance, parabens and preservatives.

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AN YONE WITH REDNESS will want to try Dermalogica Redness Relief Primer SPF15 (22ml, $70) that has a sheer green tint to diffuse redness while priming the skin for make-up. It’s also packed with botanicals to immediately bring relief to sensitive skin, and it leaves a lovely matte finish. SETT ING T HE GOLD standard in hydration and regeneration for the past 50 years, La Mer Crème de la Mer Moisturizing Cream (60ml, $420), is infused with sea kelp, known as the company’s highly potent Miracle Broth.

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R EBALANCE DRY SKIN with Doctor Babor Neuro Sensitive Cellular Intensive Calming Cream (50ml, $152). It rebuilds the skin’s protective outer layer and is so gentle, you can even use it on neurodermatitis and psoriasis.

Calendula Redness Rescue Restorative Treatment Serum (30ml, $85), a gel that uses lovely botanicals, such as calendula flower, to bring the skin back to balance. STILL-LIFE PHOTOGRAPHY ANDREW YOUNG FOR STOCKIST DETAILS, SEE PAGE 149.

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for sensitive skin are mineral sunscreen filters such as titanium dioxide and zinc oxide. You’ll find these in Paula’s Choice Redness Relief SPF 30 Mineral Moisturizer (60ml, $33) that’s also boosted with a range of calming ingredients.

IN THE GARDEN

POTTED COLOUR August is usually the month when hyacinths burst into bloom, their dense mass of waxy florets spreading joy and perfume about the place. Potted hyacinths should be moved outside to a sunny spot and fertilised (but not overwatered). To ensure another showy display next spring, deadhead the flowers but leave the foliage to die off naturally — this feeds the flower not the seed. Once the foliage has died back, lift bulbs out and store in a dry, dark place ready for repotting next autumn.

GARDEN EVENTS

Celebrate one of winter’s prettiest blooms with special camellia events around the country. 13TH–14TH SPRINGFIELD, SA Head to historic Carrick Hall for Camellias SA Inc.’s annual show. Free entry. (08) 8433 1700; carrickhill.sa.gov.au 20TH–21ST MOUNT WAVERLEY, VICTORIA The state’s largest camellia show. Mount Waverley Community Centre. Adults $5; children free. 0412 914 388; waverleygardenclub.com 20TH–21ST & 27TH–28TH BILPIN, NSW More than 600 established camellias will shine at Wildwood Garden. Entry by gold-coin donation. (02) 4567 2194; wildwoodgarden.com.au 26TH–27TH HOBART, TASMANIA The Hobart Horticultural Society’s Daﬀodil, Camellia & Floral Art Show. Free. (03) 6272 3629; tasblooms.com

in the garden

THERE’S PLENTY OF COLOUR AND CHARM TO SEE YOU THROUGH THE LAST OF WINTER.

SCANDI CHIC Give your favourite pot plants pride of place inside with Danish company Ferm Living’s stylish powder-coated plant stand. $399, from Design Stuff. (03) 9592 2960; designstuff.com.au

DESIGNER CURVES Fresh from this year’s Milan Furniture Fair comes Italian designer Piergiorgio Cazzaniga’s ‘Countour’ collection of outdoor chairs for Tribù, featuring weatherproof fabrics and a beautiful open-weave backrest. From Cosh Living. (03) 9281 1999; coshliving.com.au

FEAST OF FLOWERS London-based designer Charlotte Day was a Royal Horticultural Society-trained gardener before turning her talents to illustration and textile design, and her Edible A-Z of Flowers prints demonstrate her passion for plants. Inspired by botanical wall charts, each letter in the alphabet — including A for Aspargus Pea, B for Borage and C for Chamomile — is available as a fine art print on 100-per-cent cotton paper. Perfect for framing. Prices start at around $65 for an A4 print, shipping included. Three’s also a complete A-Z chart from $160. flowerstoeat.co.uk

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BOOKS

BOOK CLUB

REINVENTING ONESELF IS THE THEME OF THIS MONTH’S CHOICES. REVIEWS ANNABEL LAWSON

Suzanne Joinson, Bloomsbury Circus, $27.99 Jerusalem in 1920 and Shoreham in 1937 connect when secret-service bods (in 1937) track down the artist who, as an 11-year-old child (in 1920) witnessed something that could embarrass Britain now Hitler has revealed himself to be the enemy. She must be silenced. A good book-club choice to stimulate argument about Joinson’s freewheeling prose and inspire reading about what happened in the Near East between the wars.

THE CONFIDENCE GAME Maria Konnikova, Canongate, $29.99 Konnikova walks us through the most notorious scams of the past two centuries. And, because she’s a psychologist, she doesn’t stop there. How the con works — plan, pick, pursue, pitch and pounce — is fully explained. On rare occasions, the con man or woman accidentally becomes genuine. Demara, who faked credentials to become ship’s surgeon aboard a destroyer during the Korean War, operated on badly shot-up enemy survivors. Using a textbook as he worked, he did as well as any qualified surgeon. The navy kept quiet. So many victims either refuse to acknowledge that they’ve been duped, or simply want to put the incident behind them. There’s plenty of guidance for anyone who needs to win the trust of others. What you do with it is up to you.

FALLING Jane Green, Macmillan, $29.99 Green’s central character is a Brit who, a few years before the story opens, decided she’d like to be rich enough to retire early

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to a beach setting and maybe do some interior decorating and eat at good restaurants. A brief stint as a banker in New York and, whoosh, Emma’s ready for a life without money worries and with Mr Nice Guy as her landlord. Cynics like me wait impatiently for the story to turn nasty, for him to be exposed as a split-personality drug dealer or worse. As always, Green enchants, although I was indignant on behalf of Mr Nice Guy’s bogan girlfriend who can’t compete with the lovely Emma.

ELIGIBLE Curtis Sittenfeld, The Borough Press, $29.99 Jane Austen’s cast of characters from Pride and Prejudice find themselves recycled for the umpteenth time in a modern pastiche. After a shaky start (tangled prose), Sittenfeld gives us a rip-roaring Manhattan comedy. Eligible is the reality show in which women audition for a husband, a perfect fit to the P&P plot. Bingley is the catch of the season. Posh Darcy must surely be “in want of a wife”. Or so thinks Mrs Bennett whose five daughters are drifting towards their use-by dates. Has anything changed in the past 200 years?

THE LAST PEARL Leah Fleming, Simon & Schuster, $19.99 A wicked dealer dupes a pearl fisherman’s wife and makes his way to York in the late 1800s. On the squalid outskirts of the city, teenage Greta runs errands for pennies. Her mother and two younger siblings depend on her to survive. Gradually Greta moves up the social scale, marries the dealer and runs his shop. Suddenly he and she must flee to the US. There, industry, small businesses and leaders

burgeon overnight. What happens to the pearl, the one who found it, and Greta when she returns to England, shines a light on a period of massive transformation. Vivid and compelling.

THE REGULARS Georgia Clark, Simon & Schuster, $29.99 One drop of Pretty, a highly restricted item palmed to Krista by a wellwisher, causes vomiting and diarrhoea followed, within the hour, by a welcome transformation. Plain Janes become transcendentally lovely. It lasts only one week. But let’s face it, with one week of beauty, one could have a lot of fun. Willow wants a man. Evie wants a woman, Krista wants to be a movie star. All right, it’s a full-frontal fantasy (although the pheromone-fuelled products about to appear on the market have a not dissimilar effect to becoming suddenly beautiful). I’m not giving anything away if I tell you that in Clark’s zippy novel, beauties have their miseries, too.

SECOND CHANCE TOWN Karly Lane, Arena, $29.99 Bikie Massacre During Bungled Drug Bust is hardly the headline a small town needs when it’s looking to attract tourists to the area. However, the shoot-out puts Bundah on the map. Lucy a petrol-pump attendant, Belle her teenage daughter, Nate, the good cop, and Hugh, the mystery blow-in, take centrestage in Lane’s well-paced story. Lucy seems almost too good to be real until one glorious scene where she makes a complete ass of herself. We all know small towns — that blunder will follow her to her grave. But there’s else — Bundah is home.

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THE LUXE LIFE Cosy up your world with a beautifully light, yet warm, Bemboka angora and superfine merino wool throw from a selection available online at Juliet Horsley Homewares. juliethorsley.com

HOME HITS Home furnishings brand Raine & Humble offers gorgeous musthaves from cushions to table linen and door stops. raineand humble.com.au

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2 duck trading co, the market basket specialist, offers a full range of authentic French styled market baskets for all your carrying needs.

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www.centralstores.com.au Dee Jackson Australian artist, Dee Jackson, creates beautiful watercolour portraits. Commissions Welcome.

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Batemans Bay

JUELA MOGO Juela Mogo is a small design and manufacturing jewellery studio situated on the South Coast of NSW c1988.

Mention Country Style to receive bottle of bubbly and chocolates on arrival.

Our talented team of jewellers takes great pride in their bespoke work and an individually crafted piece from Juela Mogo is not just an investment it’s an experience.

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BAY BREEZE BOUTIQUE ACCOMMODATION Situated on a private front row waterfront location, with views so immediate and spectacular, that you’re immersed in nature and the beauty of changing tides and glorious sunsets. Unwind in the elegant simplicity of chic décor, casual luxury, and the wonderful scenery.

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Visit Eurobodalla

CLYDE RIVER HOUSEBOATS A unique accommodation alternative that offers a great way to relax and have fun on the South Coast. Our brand new vessel Nowhere Bound sleeps 8-10 people and provides ultimate luxury.

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CURTIS & CLOUD Curtis & Cloud is a beautiful store in Moruya on the NSW south coast. Loved for its diverse collection of gorgeous fashion, jewellery, shoes, handbags, fashion accessories, homewares and more!

RESTFUL SLEEP + ABUNDANT BREAKFAST = MEMORABLE STAY

02 4472 7627 www.batemansbaymanor.com.au

58 Vulcan St, Moruya NSW 2537 02 4474 3889 www.curtisandcloud.com.au

Visit www.eurobodalla.com.au or FREECALL 1800 802 528

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Visit Orange

EAT. DRINK. STAY. EXPLORE.

LAKEVIEW LUXURY CABINS

ORANGE FARMERS MARKET

HOCKEYS

Absolute peace and tranquillity, total relaxation, fresh country air, breathtaking views and no-one to bother you. Treat yourself to something really special - exclusive, opulent, fully self contained retreat with a gourmet breakfast hamper. Reward yourself with a week’s worth of relaxation in just a few days.

Year round on the 2nd Saturday of the Month 8.30am - 12.30pm With 65 plus stallholders - come taste the region May - Oct: Orange Showground, Leeds Parade, Orange Nov - Apr: Northcourt, in the open space, Cnr March & Peisley Streets, Orange

Memorable and serene. An intimate retreat for two, Hockey’s Accommodation @ The Old Chemist is an unforgettable getaway experience which successfully fuses indulgent luxury with peaceful tranquillity.

02 6365 3378 www.lakeviewcabins.com.au

www.orangefarmersmarket.org.au

0421 121 937 28 Park St, Millthorpe NSW 2798 michelle@hockeysaccommodation.com.au www.hockeysaccommodation.com.au

RACINE RESTAURANT

DE SALIS WINES

Set amongst the beautiful grapevines of La Colline Vineyard with sensational views, Racine Restaurant is spectacular venue for your wedding or any other event. Relaxed and modern with a focus on good food & wine prepared in our award ZLQQLQJ UHVWDXUDQW E\ RXU ´QH GLQLQJ FKHIV

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De Salis is recognised for their Sparkling, Fume Blanc, Chardonnay, Pinot Noir, and cool red blends.

0403 210 703 125 Mt Lofty Rd, Nashdale via Orange NSW www.forestedge.estate www.desaliswines.com.au

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MAYFIELD VINEYARD COTTAGES Charming French style Country Cottages overlooking a beautiful Vineyard, 10 minutes from Orange, a food and wine experience.

BYNG STREET

WILLAWONG COTTAGE B&B

Byng Street Local Store – the café with the red door – is a foodie haven in the beautiful Central West. This locals’ favourite is known and loved for it’s unique and delicious food, excellent Allpress coffee and friendly staff. Open 7 days from 7am.

Relax and unwind in your own secluded country cottage with 360 degree views of stunning surrounds including picturesque rural farm land and spectacular acreage gardens. Soothing and quaint, an ideal couples retreat.

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Book 2 nights with Chapel dinner for two and receive a bottle of French champagne with our compliments

Enjoy ultimate luxury and relaxation, allow yourself to be pampered with delectable treats and stunning wines from our region and breathe in the aroma of utter peace. It’s the little things that count at Bishop’s Court Estate. Bishop’s Court Estate 226 Seymour Street Bathurst NSW 2795 Ph: 02 6332 4447

Enjoy a slice of Harbour life at Harbourside Apartments. Sydney’s absolute waterfront accommodation offers fully serviced and equipped studio, one and two bedroom apartments. Conveniently situated at McMahons Point Ferry Wharf Harbourside is the perfect Sydney base for business or pleasure whether your stay is for a day, a week or as long as you wish.

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BERAMBING (BILPIN)

HARBOURSIDE SERVICED APARTMENTS

GHOST HILL ROAD RETREAT LUXURY SELF CONTAINED B&B Ghost Hill Road Retreat is the perfect holiday escape for those wanting to relax and unwind. Enjoy the seclusion and serenity of our stunning rural haven on the edge of the heritage listed Blue Mountains National Park. 3 unique self contained cottages all with fire place and spa bath.

NSW

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A beautiful, unique country retreat for all seasons, “Wilpine” is located 3 1/2 hours from Sydney. Accommodating up to 16 people, it’s perfect for large groups – your bridal party, hen’s parties or families.

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RUTHERGLEN

QUAMBY HOME Quamby Home is a newly renovated, 1870’s built, luxury accommodation house situated on 312 acres of English gardens and prime farm land in the Meander Valley of Northern Tasmania.

0412 281 491 / 0413 389 425 bookings@quambyhome.com.au www.quambyhome.com.au

RUTHERGLEN ESTATES & TUILERIES Home of Rutherglen Estates Cellar Door, with a large selection of estate grown, award winning wines. Tuileries boasts boutique vineyard accommodation, an à la carte restaurant, café and wine bar.

Sleeps a total of 10 people and designed to cater for couples, families, large groups, weekend get-aways or wedding gatherings.

Open 7 days

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Luxury to budget homes and apartments situated between Townsville and Cairns.

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You’ll be sipping wine in front of the blazing fire in no time!

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Choose to stay in either of two charming homesteads overlooking picturesque farmland in the beautiful Lockyer Valley one hour west of Brisbane.

A unique Australian holiday, very peaceful.

Where to stay... what to do... in our paradise.

QLD

STOCKTON RISE COUNTRY RETREAT

Visit neighbouring rural townships exploring markets, cafes and gift shops as well as enjoying our wonderful scenery and being treated to a magnificent sunset at day’s end.

Set on a picturesque 33 acres, only 10 minutes from central Mudgee and minutes from award winning wineries and restaurants.

Indoor Fireplace - Pet friendly - Outdoor campfire area - kayaks/row boat provided - Mid week specials.

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THE ROTATING HOUSE The only Rotating House in Australia to rent, situated on a gorgeous 40 acre hobby farm, with 700 mtr private river frontage on mid North coast NSW. Experience what all the hype is about world wide, a huge gorgeous home (sleep up to 16). Everything is provided – all you need is food and drinks. River is perfect for swimming, kayaking & fishing. Min 2 night stay, Starting from $350/night.

13-35 Drummond St, Rutherglen VIC 3685 02 6032 7999 www.rutherglenestates.com.au www.tuileriesrutherglen.com.au

Create a masterpiece from scratch in my 6 day Blooms workshop NO PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE NECESSARY Itching to paint but worried about having no skills? Try my NO FAIL Jacqueline Coates Blooms Painting Method™, a system anyone can apply to get amazing results, even if you don’t have a creative bone in your body. Apply to other subject matter as well. Hundreds of students are off to a great start as a result of my workshops. For pleasure or to turn a hobby into a business, I help you get going. Includes bonus sessions on colour mixing and how to sell your work.

WORKSHOP DATES 2016:

FREEDOM TO PAINT OILS offered for the first time

FRENCH ART SCHOOL

KAPUNDA Blooms (one day) July 31

interstate. Paint 6 paintings in 5 days and learn all about oils and

October 18-30, 2016

BRISBANE Blooms September 4-10

how to apply it. $2850 inc all art materials, catering and two manuals.

Paris & Limousin

SYDNEY Blooms September 20-25

MELBOURNE August 8-12 Glen Iris

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KAPUNDA Blooms December 1-7

BRISBANE August 17-21 Metro Arts

MELBOURNE Blooms January 15-21, 2017

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Includes all art materials and catering

9 Guests $6995 pp Land Package

Call Jacqueline Coates to book in Mobile 0412 587 438 Email jacquelinecoates@bigpond.com See www.bloomspaintingworkshops.com and www.freedomtopaint.com for more details and to book in

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WINDERMERE

AMBLE IN COTTAGE Amble In Cottage provides self-contained or bed and breakfast accommodation at Windermere, in Tasmania’s north. The cottage was formerly a dairy barn, and has been transformed into accommodation suitable for couples or up to six guests.

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Downstairs features a delightful bedroom with a spa bath overlooking a private courtyard garden, a fully-equipped kitchen, dining and lounge area. A must experience country getaway.

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23 Welman Street, (Corner of Welman Street and Elizabeth Street) Launceston, Tasmania, 7250 Phone: 0404 237 978 Email: info@highﬁeldhousebandb.com.au

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