WITH ITS ELEGANT HOMESTEAD and garden frothing with roses, Karawatha Park is an oasis in the arid landscape of Kimba in South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula, on traditional Barngarla lands. It’s largely thanks to the dedicated work of Barb Woolford, who insisted on establishing a garden at Karawatha when she joined her husband, Bert, on his family’s wheat and sheep farm 40 years ago. “When we first married, there were about five fruit trees and a big jacaranda,” she recalls, “but I was pretty stubborn about saying, ‘If I’m living here, I’m having a garden.’”
It was a good compromise for Barb, 62, who
