Host Profile
My Property
Business Type
Farming methods
Short Property Description
3.5 acre property being set up to run along permaculture principles. We have been here since 2018 and have spent 5 years establishing an orchard with a variety of fruit and nut trees suited to the subtropics. Currently we grow herbs and vegetables for personal consumption and have some poultry (ducks and chickens) for eggs and to assist with pest and weed control. We have a few sheep in the back paddock to control the pasture that backs onto wildlife habitat down near the dam which is stocked with fish and visited by local wildlife (kangaroos, spoonbills, ibis, herons, native ducks and marsh frogs).
Currently we are constructing raised garden beds, chook run and chook house. We are in the process of building an aquaponics system, expanding the water carrying capacity of the block and maintaining the worm farm. The sheep yard/shed is well due for renovation. We are keen to expand our native frog friendly gardens and top-up the Hugelkulture beds.
Close to local shops, Caboolture Markets, Glasshouse Mountains, Bribie Island, Sunshine Coast and Brisbane city. Some public transport available.
(We also have 3 indoor cats)
My Details
The Stay
Why I became a WWOOF Host
We are very experienced gardeners with training in horticulture and permaculture design and practise. Virginia is a keen practitioner of food preservation techniques such as dehydrating, fermenting and mycology. Mick grew up on a small farm and was a workplace health and safety, horticulture and farm mechanisation teacher at an agriculture college. We could use a hand to continue the ongoing work to further develop the farm system and can pass on skills, knowledge and techniques to younger people with a desire to learn about nature and develop practical skills in a relaxing rural-residential environment.
We would also like to share and exchange experience with like minded people.
