THERE AREN’T TOO many people who would eagerly take on a 6000-hectare property with multiple run-down buildings, but Elizabeth and Edwin Michell were excited to tackle the restoration of Foxlow, an historic farming station on the Molonglo River near Bungendore in New South Wales. Edwin’s family bought the property in 2014, and Edwin, 40, and Elizabeth, 36, inherited it after they were married in 2017. Established around 1835 by John Hosking, the first elected mayor of Sydney, Foxlow came with a long backstory – and an even longer to-do list.
“Foxlow caught our eye because of the scale of the holding and the historic character of it,” Edwin explains. “We
