Weekly Post

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

A Birds Eye View When embarking on the journey of building a passion based business it is vital to periodically take a step back and contemplate on your achievements so far. It is easy to only focus on the boots on the ground, long list of tasks that still need to be completed and feel

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.