Evan Young

The Spring Shoulder It is a beautiful, sunny Spring day which means my first task for the day is to get on the roof and cover our wood stove flue with wire mesh. We have to do this to stop flies and bees from invading our living room. It is still cold enough at night to […]

Markets and Music This coming weekend is a big one for Rainbow OMG. We have our fortnightly stall at the Mount Gambier Farmers Market and then gigs to play Saturday and Sunday night. Both Evan and Jill we attending the Farmers Market so we will have a wide range of vegetables and herbal supplement goodies available. Evan has

Spring Has Sprung This Monday was the Spring Equinox marking the day where we have equal hours of day and night and signalling that Spring is here! This is always an exciting time for us, we have been nurturing our warm season crops in the Greenhouse and can now plant them in the ground. We

Supporting Local Food Production We are now entering our 20th month of operations here in beautiful Nelson. As we rapidly progress into the madness of Spring and Summer production it is time to discuss the importance of community support for any local business but especially a family run, direct to customer farm business. As a whole

21 kg of Spinach Yesterday the clouds parted and the wind died down so we took the opportunity to harvest our four Spinach beds and it was obvious from the start that this was going to be a sizable return. Our Spinach beds have roughly 350 plants per bed and we harvest them with scissors

Calm After The Storm Last Friday was a wild day here in Nelson with wind and driving rain blasting in off the ocean, starting during the day and continuing through most of the night. As we have not yet finished the Nursery Greenhouse it was susceptible to the winds and one of the doors was

Spring Transitions As we look ahead to at least a week of wet and cold Winter weather moments like this rainbow appearing over our farm remind us that Spring is less than a month away. Spring begins after the equinox around the 21st of September as this signals the transition into longer days than nights

Returning to the Farmers Market After a prolonged Winter lull in production we are delighted to announce that we will be returning the the Mount Gambier Farmers Market this Saturday August 23rd. August has turned on the sunshine and this week we are flush with cool season produce. The market runs from 9:00-12:00 at the

Help Us Celebrate Evan After months of planning and preparation the time is here, Evan’s 40th Birthday. Evan has two passions in life growing clean, delicious, nutritious food and playing great live music.  You are invited to come and join us at the Nelson Hotel from 6:30 pm this Saturday 2nd August for a powerful evening

Pivoting and Returning to Retail We are pleased to announce that as of this afternoon our vegetables will once again be back in stock at Food For Thought in Mount Gambier. We have a great relationship with Joanne and her staff and are very happy to offer our locally grown, organic vegetables to their health conscious customers.  As