Our property, “Major’s Point”, is in southwest NSW in an area known as the Bland, near the tiny village of Quandialla. We farm 3170 hectares of beautiful sedimentary floodplain country, but as Dorothy Mackellar so beautifully put it, we live in “a land of drought and flooding rains”. We’ve experienced the extremes of both, but water is a big concern for us.
I grew up living on an isolated farm in central west NSW where we ate what was in season from the farm and garden. We had lamb and milk from the farm, eggs from our chickens and fresh fruit and vegetables from Nanna’s huge, rambling garden. She had a massive clump of rhubarb, grapes, strawberries growing wild and large, old fruit trees for shade and fruit. I have…