Farm Features | Tasmanian Country Newspaper

Winter puts heat on Phil's shearers

With more than 35 years of experience, Mr Lester’s sheep operation focuses on producing fine merino wool across three properties in Tasmania.

Phil Lester with Senior farm hand Scott Johnson.

Year of our tragic floods

Jim Osborne died in 2012, aged 93, but his family only recently discovered his diary. Extracts are reproduced here with their permission.

Flooded railway station, Leighlands Rd Evandale as the floodwaters of 1929 rose as much as 17 metres.

Trials and tribulations of a pepper picker

Chris and Anna purchased a mountain top with the goal of expanding their pepperberry business Wild Pepper Isle.

Chris Chapman

Family's mission to find a better way

A DESIRE to be self-sufficient initially drove Thomas and Nanette Botha to Apinoka farm in the Huon Valley.

Botha Family at Appinoka

OIL’s well for couple who bought back the olive farm

TASMANIA’S olive harvest is in full swing and this season growers are benefiting from the combination of bumper yields and excellent quality.

Carol and Tony O'Neil

Couple on bold quest to regenerate eco-system

Beaupre farm is a Boer goat stud with a purpose: regenerative farming and restoring land function.

Christine Bishop with a baby goat

Olives kissed by the ocean mist

Marco and Vicki Linardi have been cultivating cool climate olives by the sea for the last three decades.

Marco and Vicki Linardi at their property surrounded by open ocean.

Top award for son-of-a-gun winemaker

PASSION for quality vines and wines is a trait that runs in one Tasmanian wine-making family.

Winemaker Marco Lubiana

High praise for the humble spud

FRESH from the 12th annual World Potato Congress in Adelaide, American potato expert Dick Okray is touring Tassie this week, giving freely his knowledge to some of the state’s top growers.

American potato expert Dick Okray, right, with Tasmanian farmers Hayden Richardson, left, Lauchie Gleeson, Will Wishaw, Flynn Tueon and Paul Woodward at Carrick on Friday.

Tea for two a tasty Tassie mission

A MOVE from Sydney to green hills of Allens Rivulet in then Huon Valley suited Gordon and Jane Brown to a T.

Charlotte Brown of Tassie-T at Allens Rivulet