Weekly Post

Welcome to 2025 Happy New Year everyone! We had a great Christmas enjoying the day with Evan’s family in Nelson and have been very busy keeping the Nelson Hotel restaurant and fridge supplied for the busy tourist season. We also had a fantastic early present signing the contracts for the sale of both our properties […]

New $5 Range For Christmas Pop Up Market After a brief hiatus we are back! Rainbow OMG will be holding our final Pop Up Market for 2024 this Saturday, December 21. We have come through our brief lull in production and will have a wide range of products available this weekend in our brand new

Shoulder Seasons Our goal as market gardeners is to have the broadest range of produce available every week however this is not always possible. We are currently in the Shoulder Season between Winter and Summer  meaning some crops have not yet started producing and others, like Sugar Snap Peas have wound up production until next

Happy Anniversaryme locally grown and delicious organic vegetables. Yesterday was a special day for us marking the 8th Wedding Anniversary for Jill and Evan. We married 8 years ago at a very small ceremony at the base of Mount Warning in Northern NSW. It was a beautiful wedding attended by immediate family members and some

A New Retail Outlet  Another busy and productive week has passed, crops have been seeded and transplanted, others have been harvested, weeded and thinned out or pruned for maintenance. Providing fresh produce to our community year round means we are constantly cycling through different crops, planting and harvesting every week of the year. Our most

Building Community  Another successful Pop Up Market has been and gone. This week we were prompted to take a step back and appreciate the community that is forming around our business. It is a real joy to stand at our market stall and see our new customers conversing with each other about health information, cooking

Approaching The Finish Line  10 months ago at the beginning of January we first broke ground on second market garden site. It all began with an old goat paddock, full of waist high weeds, fences with trees and shrubs growing through them and holes in the bottom for rabbits to enter at will. We hired

Why Don’t More People Do This?   From the outside Market Gardening can have the appearance of the idyllic lifestyle. Working outside in nature with plants, growing delicious food and serving your community. Many people have asked us “why aren’t there more people doing this?” We love our life here in Nelson and farming is getting

Family Friendly Farming  Yesterday was a beautiful reminder of why we chose this lifestyle and why we have been working 7 days a week since the start of January to set up our second market garden. Our farm is less than 10 metres away from our home and is entirely visible from the kitchen sink.

A Successful First Market  Last week we held our first Pop Up Market at Limestone Coast Pantry in Mount Gambier and we are delighted to report it went very well. We met a lot of new people, many of which will become long term friends and customers, had a delicious lunch from the cafe and