Australians living in rural and remote areas have shorter lives, higher levels of disease and injury and reduced access to health services than their city counterparts. Neil recounts his experience of growing up with a chronically ill father.

Three years ago, we fell in love with a rundown sandstone farmhouse in the wild Capertee Valley. It’s now time for us to share this special place with you.

Our Scottish Highland Cattle are named after famous Scots. Our neighbours thought we were mad when we introduced this breed to Warramba. They probably still do. So why Highlands?

African Love Grass sounds very nice and romantic but it’s a total pest. We didn’t want to pulverise it with pesticides so started looking at other options.

The land was dry and hard, and that was before the drought set in. Years of overgrazing had left the country around Warramba in a poor state. At first, we removed all stock and rested the land, then looked at ways to improve it without the use of chemicals. Enter John Feehan and his dung beetles.