Weekly Post

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

We Grow Trees At Rainbow OMG we take a whole ecosystem approach to farming. We understand that although our main efforts are based on annual vegetable production, it is imperative that we look at our properties as a living system, requiring multiple layers of vegetation (trees, bushes, shrubs, vines, vegetation, root crops etc), a large

Well and Truly Rooted Yesterday was yet another big day for us. With Evan now doing external gardening work to bring in more funds Tuesday’s have become our main planting and seeding day each week. Being a Root week we set about planting our year’s worth of Garlic and Onion’s as well as another bed

The Veggie Van Has Landed Some of our readers may be unaware that we launched our business while all of Victoria was in Lockdown for COVID in 2021. We had to pivot from having a public open day to launch our business to offering home delivery only as we were not allowed near anyone. Even

Sowing Vegetables is a Prayer for the Future Working in our Nursery is a form of meditation for me. We now have a good setup with a nice workflow and I allow my mind to wander to the future as I carefully place one seed in each tiny cell of our seedling trays. Every one

Changing Seasons, Changing Produce Seasonal eating is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. Eating vegetables that are in season provides you with nutrition that is appropriate for the time of year and allows for eating freshly harvested food year round. As the weather continues to cool off and the ground moistens we are starting