Weekly Post

Happy New Year We had an excellent Christmas in Rainbow this year with all Evan’s siblings in attendance. The hot weather has provided some much needed downtime as we prepare to hit the ground running in 2023. We wish you a fun filled celebration on New Year’s Eve and a happy, creative and successful 2023. […]

Merry Christmas We would like to wish everyone a Merry Chistmas and thank you for making 2023 a successful year for Rainbow OMG. We are grateful to be able to provide our small community with healthy food options and look forward to another great year in 2024. This Week’s Available Produce and Supplements OMG Eggs $7.50Cherry Tomatoes

Onion Abundance This week we harvested the first successful large crop of onions we have grown. We have grown somewhere between 400-600 of a mix of red and brown onions. The primary goal of Rainbow OMG is to provide for our family’s needs first and to share the surplus with anyone local who values what

Lingering Green Tomatoes What a unique Spring we are having, the incessant rain and cool weather have certainly slowed down the beginning of our warm season crops and it feels like each week I promise ripe tomatoes yet we are still waiting. We have hundreds of green tomatoes slowly ripening on the vine and can’t

A Recharge In The Mountains We have just returned from our brief and only holiday for the year. The purpose of our travels was to attend the Wedding of a family member however this coincided to returning to the Alpine Region which Evan grew up in. We took the chance to go to Mt Buffalo

That’s a lot of Garlic This year has certainly provided us with a lot of challenges. We have lost entire beds of transplants to earwigs, rain has smashed emerging seedlings to pieces and insects of some sort have been ravaging our seedlings in the Greenhouse. This is part of the stimulating challenge of natural farming,

Thank You We would like to extend a big thank you to all involved in the Market in Rainbow on Saturday. We had excellent sales, met a lot of new customers and had a great many conversations with existing customers, friends and other stall holders. Thank you to the organisers, volunteers and all the vendors

To Market, To Market This Saturday we will attend our third market stall in Rainbow since launching Rainbow OMG. We will be working all week in preparation for the market so will not be making our usual delivery run on Friday. Instead we are very excited to see our regular customers at the market and

Lakes Are Filliing, Mozzies Are Buzzing Well the rain just keeps on falling and the Wimmera River keeps on flowing into Lake Hindmarsh. We drove to 4 Mile Beach this week to take a look and it is really starting to look like a real lake again, Albacutya will follow. We celebrate the rain and

Flowers Are Medicine At Rainbow OMG we like to plant flowers, lots and lots of flowers. All of our Market Garden beds are 10 m x 0.75 m and given the block has existed sheds on it there are plenty of spaces where these beds will not fit. We are planting trees, bushes, herbs and