Evan Young

The Break Has Arrived After a long and dry Summer the Autumn Break rains have arrived. This signifies the soil receiving a blessing of moisture and rainfall exceeding evaporation until the return of dry season. For us this means far less irrigation requirements and an easier time raising our seedlings. A lot of pressure is […]

Mulch, Rain and Seedlings Yesterday was a great day for us at Rainbow OMG as we had the first significant rainfall since early January. The entire market garden site has received a good drink, changing the soil from a dusty grey to a deep, chocolate brown. The soil is now ready to plant and we

Happy Birthday Jill Yesterday was a very special day at Rainbow OMG, my beautiful wife and soul mate Jill celebrated her 33rd birthday. Jill is the strongest woman I have ever met by far and I count my blessings everyday that I get to share my life with her. Everything is better when Jill is

The First Seeds Have Germinated Happy Valentines Day everyone. As our first Buckwheat seedlings emerge from the ground I am reminded of the awesome power of love. Love is the most generative force in existence, more powerful than fear or hate, love inspires positive action, creates beauty and even new life. Life in this realm

Sunshine Salve, Soil Prep and Music As we launch into the second month of 2024 activity is ramping up again across all aspects of Rainbow OMG. Evan has been getting very dusty rotary hoeing, raking and pegging out the market garden as well as doing some local maintenance work and even recording a few songs

New Year, New Town, New Garden Welcome to 2024 it has been some time since our last email and we have plenty of news to share. As you may be aware in late July last year we made the difficult decision to pack up our home, lives and business and move out of Rainbow. We

Broken Bones and Hearts Welcome to the first Post of the 23-24 Financial Year. It has been a few weeks since our last email or video due to having break after closing the Market Garden. In the interim Evan broke his Ankle and Jill has been having Heart problems. As stated many times in our

Last Call For Vegetables With a melancholy heart, I would like to announce that this will be our final week of organic vegetable deliveries. Rainbow OMG will continue as a herbs and supplements business and YouTube channel, however the market garden will soon cease operations. We have poured absolutely everything we have into setting up

Musical Therapy We have just returned from a blissful weekend of music, great food, generous hospitality and re-affirmation of kinship’s built over years of toil as a struggling musician.   On Saturday night Evan was able to attend his first full band gig of the The Go Set  since joining the band in 2009 and it was

A Musical Interlude At Rainbow OMG we have taken less than 2 weeks holidays total in the last 3 years, it has been a long, hard and financially stressful grind to get our business out of the ground with very little positive feedback until March of this year. We are tired but positive about the