Weekly Post

Jill Passed The Test Yesterday was a milestone day for our family. We traveled to Warrnambool early in the morning so that Jill could sit her Australian Citizenship Test and she passed with flying colours! We celebrated in a very Aussie way enjoying meat pies with sauce by the ocean.  Jill has dreamt of this […]

Christmas Hampers and Open Farm Market Stall The weather is finally warming up in Nelson with Friday due to be our first day over 30 C for this Summer. Our green tomatoes on the vine will certainly appreciate it and our various salad greens are now protected with 30% shade cloth. This week we delivered

December Update After an unseasonably cold start to December the weather today is looking glorious. Today’s post is an update on what we have growing at the farm. December is generally the final month of transition from cold to warm season crops, Spinach is now finished until after Summer and our final 2 Sugar Snap

Another Market and Garlic, Garlic, Garlic This Saturday November 28 we will again be holding our Open Farm Market Stall 10:00 am – 1:00 pm. Come on down for a detailed look around the farm, conversation with us and other customers and of course our locally grown vegetables, herbs, skin salves, local honey and pasture

Pivoting to Move Forward October and November have been very productive and reflective times for us at Rainbow OMG. We have taken some time in between the daily grind of farming to assess the current state of our business and where we need to focus our attention in order to develop to the point where we

A Change of Plans for This Weekend Hi everyone just a quick email this morning. After a good week of on farm sales as well as taking on new clients in Portland we have decided that we do not have enough stock to attend the Mount Gambier Farmers Market this weekend. It takes a lot

Farmers Market and a New Portland Retail Outlet We have another big announcement this week, as of tomorrow afternoon our locally grown, organic vegetables will be available for purchase from a brand new wholefoods cafe in Portland! We are thrilled to be partnering with Katy from Willow & Bean which has opened as of today. This exciting

A New Partnership We have had another productive and expansive week and are thrilled to announce that we will now be regularly supplying the Bayside Cafe in Portland with our delicious vegetables and herbs. We were lucky to have the opportunity to give Kelly, the owner, a tour of our farm over the weekend and have subsequently delivered

Eating A Local Diet Wow! I just finished a breakfast so delicious that I had to write about it. 90% of the ingredients in this breakfast were either produced by us or other local producers. We had avocado toast topped with double yolk eggs from Providore Farm, organic cheese, Pea Shoots from our fellow market vendor Hayward Microgreens,

An Eggciting Announcement Yesterday we had the pleasure of visiting the very beautiful Providore Farm in Narrawong, Victoria. The visit had two purposes, firstly to seek advice on how to expand our customer base for our vegetables and secondly to see how they manage their Pasture Raised Egg operation. I am happy to say the advice was