Weekly Post

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

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