Pushing Through Setting up a new farm is not for the faint of heart. The days are long and tiring, the to-do list can feel like it always gets bigger not smaller and there are many times where you just want to sit down and relax for a few minutes but know that is not […]

An Exciting Announcement We just had an excellent weekend celebrating Evan’s 39th birthday. It was the first party he has had since his 30th so it was a really nice time with great food, music and conversations around a bonfire.  Monday proved to be a very fruitful day being approached by a new long term

Welcome to Rainbow OMG 2.0 Hello and welcome to Rainbow OMG 2.0. We are a small-scale, organic, family run vegetable farm located on the edge of the Nelson State Forest and the small fishing village of Nelson. We utilise no-dig principles in our garden and grow the highest quality, fresh vegetables anyone could ask for. 

Seeds Of Hope As gentle rain falls in Nelson, blessing our land with moisture and atmospheric nitrogen we can reflect on what it means to start an Organic Market Garden (OMG) in a new market and climate. Every seed sown in these fledgling months is akin to saying a prayer for the future. We plant

The Break Has Arrived After a long and dry Summer the Autumn Break rains have arrived. This signifies the soil receiving a blessing of moisture and rainfall exceeding evaporation until the return of dry season. For us this means far less irrigation requirements and an easier time raising our seedlings. A lot of pressure is

Mulch, Rain and Seedlings Yesterday was a great day for us at Rainbow OMG as we had the first significant rainfall since early January. The entire market garden site has received a good drink, changing the soil from a dusty grey to a deep, chocolate brown. The soil is now ready to plant and we

Happy Birthday Jill Yesterday was a very special day at Rainbow OMG, my beautiful wife and soul mate Jill celebrated her 33rd birthday. Jill is the strongest woman I have ever met by far and I count my blessings everyday that I get to share my life with her. Everything is better when Jill is

The First Seeds Have Germinated Happy Valentines Day everyone. As our first Buckwheat seedlings emerge from the ground I am reminded of the awesome power of love. Love is the most generative force in existence, more powerful than fear or hate, love inspires positive action, creates beauty and even new life. Life in this realm

Sunshine Salve, Soil Prep and Music As we launch into the second month of 2024 activity is ramping up again across all aspects of Rainbow OMG. Evan has been getting very dusty rotary hoeing, raking and pegging out the market garden as well as doing some local maintenance work and even recording a few songs

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