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

A Very Special New Life This week we welcomed our daughter Amber to the world. Born at home, delivered by Mum and Dad, she is of course the most beautiful little girl you can imagine. Mum and Baby are fine, Dad is tired but holding down the fort with plenty of help from Nannie and

Signs Of Good Things To Come As you can see the farm is looking gorgeous, we blitz weeded the entire block last week and are now ready for the warm season. Our next step is to broadfork the last 5 new beds at the front of the block and install some additional irrigation for a