Starting this month, I'm going to use this space to properly introduce you to what's actually growing here at Wildside Flower Farm— one plant at a time, once a month. Some of what I'll cover is already established and producing: our peonies, waratahs, hawthorn, roses, and lemon verbena.But over the next couple of years I'm also trialling a much longer list of herbal and medicinal plants — things like skullcap, meadowsweet, echinacea, valerian, elderberry, nettle, and around twenty others — to...

Welcome to the Farm Journal. This is a place to share the seasons, the flowers, the herbs, and the gradual process of building a cool-climate flower and botanical farm in the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales. What began as a peony and waratah farm is now evolving to include medicinal and aromatic herbs, grown using regenerative principles and with a focus on producing high-quality Australian-grown botanicals. The journal will follow the rhythm of the seasons—winter planning, spring...