Host Profile
My Property
Business Type
Farming methods
Short Property Description
8 acres of native regeneration, organic orchard and Garden. We are on the Banks of the Mongarlowe River where we are nurturing beautiful unimproved native pastures, gardens and an old orchard. We were impacted by the 2019/20 Black Sumer Fires and we working hard to manage weeds and the massive regowth that’s occured over the last few years.
We are close to the Monga National Park. An ancient Gondwana remanent forest type and the source of the Mongarlowe River, one of the cleanest rivers in NSW it flows parallel to the escarpment for 40kms before turning inland.
This small parcel of land, was cleared agricultural land over 50 years ago, when it subdivided off a large property to build a trout farm that never worked. Patrick purchased this property in 1979, and it’s been slowly regenerating ever since. Over the last 10 to 15 years, it’s reached a point in its regeneration where we are now gardening by subtraction. There has been so much regrowth that we are in a process of removing and planting vegetation develop this site.
We have a large food garden, primarily for personal use. When fully operational we will sell excess produce, seedlings and seeds at the local markets.
We are 17 km from the nearest town – we can provide some transport to and from town where needed. Woofers with a manual drivers licence or a car of their own would be ideal.
Organic/Biological methods we use
We don’t use poisons or inorganic fertilisers. All our weed management is done by hand. we have removed invasive weeds around our home, our studio worshop and in what we call thc chook paddock – with out weeding program we keep them under control in these areas and are working to remove invasive weeds such as blackbery, dandelions, and Fog grass from our orchaed and the remaining native paster.
The regrowth since the fires is significant – large tracts of accia’s and christmas bush remain in some areas – this is a significant fire risk, and the are growing so densly that they will reach “lock up’ without intervention. Lock up is where the regrowth is so thick that water no longer penertrates the soil which can become hydrophobic.
My Details
The Stay
Can Accommodate
Preferred length of Stay
1-2 weeks, 2-4 weeks, Longer stays by negotiation, Whatever suits
Accommodation
Other options
No Smoking Inside, Pets allowed by arrangement
Meal Procedures
Share some meals, Share cooking, Food provided, cook your own
Languages spoken
Diets we cater for
Mixed meals, some meat, some vegetarian, BYO Special diet foods please
Work and Study Remotely here
Work and Study Remotely here by arrangement
Why I became a WWOOF Host
We’ve been impacted by the fires and encroaching old age, while it’s been two years, we have a long way to go to reestablishing the gardens and getting our weed management under under control.
We need help and this has been a wonderful way to get the help us manage and maintain what we had built here before the Black Summer Fires changed our lives
