Issue 26.2

Australian Country

Your Contemporary Country Lifestyle Magazine

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Editor's Letter
The time-honoured advice is to find what you love doing and it'll never feel like work. So while you may have to work hard at your chosen path, there will always be pleasure in it. I'm lucky enough to be living proof of the adage, as while I may spen
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Diary Notes
Pick up those peelers, dust off your mashers and start saving those hessian sacks, the Robertson Potato Festival is on again in the NSW potato farming heartland of the Southern Highlands. The weekend will include musical acts, gardening, food and coo
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Lowan Behold
Lowan homestead is a piece of living history, but there was a time this landmark could've been considered beyond repair. Located in South Australia's Kalangadoo, about 400 kilometres south-east of Adelaide and a half-hour drive from Mt Gambier, the p
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A Significant site
When Sharon and Scott Reid first viewed the property that was to become their second home, they spent an entire day walking around the ground's 115 acres (46.5 hectares), traversing up and down hills and around natural water features. “We were instan
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Embraced By Essington
You can take the girl out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the girl. That's certainly the case for Sydney food entrepreneur Simmone Logue, who keeps one foot in the bush with the historic homestead she owns with her twin sister,
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Pausing In Provence
An ancient stone courtyard is the end of the journey for Sophie Levi. London's award-winning landscape painter has driven for three days across England and France to arrive in the foothills of the Alpilles Mountains in the Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur.
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Plastic Fantastic
As ocean sailors, Rupert and Nikki Rowe were well acquainted with the problem of maritime garbage patches, huge aggregations of predominantly discarded plastics clogging up the world's oceans and causing catastrophic impact on marine life and ecosyst
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Baker's Bible
Emelia Jackson loves to make people happy through butter and sugar. One of Australia's most sought-after cake designers, she is best known internationally for being victorious in the 2020 MasterChef Back to Win series, where she displayed her razor-s
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Born-again Bond Store
It was meant to be. Call it fate, call it coincidence, call it plain old good luck, but it would be hard to imagine better owners for the historic former Van Diemen's Land (VDL) Company store building in Stanley, Tasmania, than Alastair and Kerry Hou
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Tasting The Tweed
It's just past dawn in peaceful art-deco Murwillumbah where an early-morning queue has formed outside a tiny hole-in-the-wall bakery at the trendy end of town. There are plenty of skilled technicians in the pastry world but few of them are magicians
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Arbour Of Love
For Betty McKee, gardening was just what you did. In the 1900s, her grandfather had a vegie garden and orchard, from which he'd sell produce, her mother was a “fanatical” gardener and florist, and all of Betty's aunties had lovely, large gardens of t
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Store Strolling
Pukura Estate's basil extra-virgin olive oil, $18.50, emphasises freshness and offers a herbaceous touch to an already fruity, delicate oil. Drizzle through cooked pasta and top with freshly shaved Parmesan for a quick and delicious meal. pukaraestat
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Mailbag
I have been subscriber to your magazine for many years courtesy of my son and daughter-in-law who give Australian Country to me as a never-ending Christmas present. While I enjoy reading all the stories, I feel that the magazine has lost touch with i
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Off The Shelf
Like his father before him, Alan Gibson was a farm boy before he became a press photographer. So there is a strong sense of connection to country and an innate understanding of the power of story imbued in this anthology of photographs and observatio

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