Weekly Post

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

Pop Up Market This Saturday Today is a huge day for us at Rainbow OMG. We are very excited to announce our first ever market stall in Mount Gambier will be held this Saturday! We are setting up our market stall with the full spread of available fresh produce inside the Limestone Coast Food Pantry from 10:00

Frugal vs Cheap As a small scale producer of vegetables I am regularly asked why our vegetables are priced the way they are. What makes them so special and why, given that we sell direct don’t they cost less? If there is no distribution chain taking their cut, shouldn’t our vegetables be cheaper? The short

Welcome to Rainbow OMG Home Deliveries We are excited and proud to finally announce that our Home Delivery service will commence this Friday 20th of September. Customers in Mount Gambier and Nelson can now order locally grown, organic, freshly harvested vegetables delivered to their door every Friday afternoon. We are very proud of the quality