Australian Country

As this issue goes to press, we’re back in lockdown again and our travel wings are well and truly clipped. Fortunately, technology is a wonderful thing and we are all working from our home offices, yet still managing to collaborate to produce this ma

This annual community arts event brings more than 50 vendors from across NSW to the Liverpool Plains in a celebration of arts and crafts made or sourced from the bush. This year’s market day will raise money to support a second staff member at the Bl

Vanessa and Chris Radford are planting chickpeas at Ibon, their sheep and crop farm near Rowena on the north-western plains of NSW, so they are spending long hours in the tractor. The phone reception is dodgy, but every time she comes into range, Van

Be careful what you wish for. To all appearances, Todd Alexander and Jeff Ross had it all — a beautifully renovated house in Sydney’s inner west, successful corporate careers with salaries to match and a great bunch of friends to help them enjoy all

It’s a bold move to ask total strangers if you can see their bedrooms, but it’s a strategy that works every time for interior designer Tracy Adams. “The first thing I ask a new client is if I can look in their wardrobes,” she says. “I’m not really in

Attitude and gratitude are the keys to a successful family business, according to Queensland strawberry farmer Laura Wells. Laura is the “L” in TSL Family Farms, which she runs with her sisters, Tracey Denman and Samantha Stewart. The siblings offici

It’s a story more romantic than any of the unions that have been celebrated in the former Tarome church. When Helen and Terry Roebig relinquished their busy Brisbane lives in 2019, they imagined they were moving to Mount Alford in Queensland’s Scenic

While every cloud may have a silver lining, South Australian interior stylist and vintage fashion guru Evelyn Neis has had to battle some pretty brutal storms to arrive at her moment in the sun. German-born Evelyn worked for the Goethe-Institut at un

The story begins, as it often does, at the pub. Not a drop had passed her lips, but Susan Gray was instantly intoxicated by The Dromedary Hotel in the tiny timber town of Central Tilba, on the far south coast of NSW. Years of drought had leached away

visittilba.com.au Four Winds Festival events are now scheduled throughout the year: fourwinds.com.au Foxglove Gardens, Tilba Tilba: A 100-year-old cottage surrounded by 3.5 acres (1.4 hectares) with fragrant gardens alive in the autumn with lilies,

Creating a major tourist destination couldn’t have been further from Rowan Clark’s mind when he went looking for ways to entertain his kids one late-summer’s afternoon. But as it turned out, that’s precisely what happened and the Rupertswood Farm Cro

Tabitha Bird greets us at the door of her 80-plus-year-old Queenslander home with her Chihuahua in her arms. “She’s always by my side,” she says. “Her name is Lion because she has such a big heart and she’s been my protector from the get-go. She spen

Update old chairs, planter pots and tired garden furniture with Annie Sloan chalk paint, $54.95/litre. anniesloan.com Brighten up an outdoor undercover wall with Studio Australia’s set of three ceramic seagulls, $232. studioaustralia.net The self

This dessert is rich, gooey, crunchy and impressive. Pour on the hot caramel sauce and watch as the top of the ball melts open! Then let your spoon dive into the rich goodies hidden inside. Servings: Makes 4 spheres. 400g dark chocolateSilicone h

Sydney-based Hayden Wright works in a creative agency making memorable messages for the digital world. Since picking up a camera while at university in Queensland, he’s developed his photography skills across more than a decade’s holidays and nature

Are you in love with your shots of the Australian countryside? Do you enjoy photographing extraordinary people and places when you are travelling around Australia? Then you could be honoured in the Australian Country Magazine Photography Competition.

In case we didn’t know it already, the events of the past year have highlighted the importance of connection with the great outdoors. As this book from Nature Play SA, a not-for-profit aimed at encouraging children into the fresh air, landed on our d

Thank you for the wonderful June/ July issue of your magazine. It truly has provided me with many great escapes from this crazy COVID world we live in. The following are my thoughts, and I hope you’ll consider sharing them with readers in a future is

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