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Sep 17, 2024 | 
homestolove.com.au | Penny Carroll
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.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
homestolove.com.au | Penny Carroll
There are historic buildings in paddocks all over Australia that are left to wither away, taking their stories with them. Sadly, the cost to restore them often outweighs the benefits of the job, especially for those making a living on the land. That could have easily been the fate of this cottage in Cressy, near Launceston. Built in the early 1800s, it was little more than a crumbling shell when it came under Fiona and Nick Moses’s care 12 years ago.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
homestolove.com.au | Penny Carroll
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 House, 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.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
homestolove.com.au | Penny Carroll
Growing up in Adelaide, Luan and Wendy both fondly recall backyards brimming with fruit trees and the crisp, crunchy bounty they offered. The couple craved a similar experience for their own children, Vinh, 13, and Van, 10, and a place they could retreat to from the city, where Luan works as a cardiologist, so they began exploring properties in the Adelaide Hills. Then in 2016, on a weekend bike ride with a friend, Luan, 46, rolled into the historic village of Mylor. “It was just lovely,” he says.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
homestolove.com.au | Penny Carroll
Sometimes life hands you a curveball. For Phe and Ken Viljoen, it was a sweet-smelling one. In 2016, the couple were living in Sydney and struggling to get a foot on the property ladder, so they widened their search to regional areas. The first property that caught their eye was an idyllic, 20-hectare farm in Millthorpe in the Central West region of New South Wales, with geese, ducks, a rambling garden – and 9000 lavender plants.
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May 1, 2024 | 
homestolove.com.au | Penny Carroll |Lucy Francis
Tim and Lauren Sayce never planned to live on a farm with horses, cattle, chickens and pigs. But when they spied a beautiful vacant block in Mount Marrow, near Ipswich in Queensland, while visiting family, an idea began brewing. “We just thought, ‘Well, wouldn’t this be nice?’” recalls Lauren, 40. The couple, who were living in Brisbane at the time, made an offer and let fate determine the outcome, agreeing that if the sale went through smoothly, it was meant to be.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
homestolove.com.au | Penny Carroll |Brigid Arnott |Jodie Gibbons
Dairy, bakery, local shop – this charming house in Durras, on the NSW South Coast, has played several roles since it was built in the 1880s. Now, after undergoing an extensive but sensitive renovation, it's ready to usher in a whole new era as a light-filled, comfortable family home. Its new owners – just the fourth in the home's long history – have their own connection to Durras. Sarah and Geoff first bought property in the town, the traditional lands of the Yuin people, in 1987.
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Oct 2, 2023 | 
homestolove.com.au | Brigid Arnott |Penny Carroll
Affectionate, intelligent, playful: these aren't characteristics typically associated with donkeys, but Susie Corlett, owner of Rocky Hill Miniature Donkey Stud in Dungog, New South Wales, says the equine animals are just misunderstood. "Sometimes you go into the paddock and they throw themselves at your feet and demand to be cuddled," she says, laughing.
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Jul 3, 2023 | 
msn.com | Penny Carroll
During the week, Megan Fletcher is a busy corporate consultant, living in an industrial warehouse in inner-city Melbourne. But when it's time to switch off, she hits the road to Daylesford, feeling her shoulders relax with every passing kilometre. "As you drive through the forest from Woodend to Daylesford, through all the trees, you just feel yourself exhale," she says.
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Jun 2, 2023 | 
homestolove.com.au | Penny Carroll |Lucy Francis
4/4JULIA ROCHE: Artist, Wooroola, New South WalesAfter leaving Sydney in favour of the space and sense of community a life in the bush offers, artist Julia Roche has found more freedom with her creativity at her 1940s homestead near Wagga Wagga. "The way I create art is very intuitive and affected by what's happening around me emotionally and physically," she explains. "I have a strong desire to keep understanding the history of our landscape and that connection to my space.
