My name is Suz, and in 2018 we left our fast paced life and moved from 5 acres to 50 acres in Braidwood, with my husband Trent, and our son Ollie. We wanted a slower more intentional life, to grow our own food or source it as close to home as possible. The same year, our son Leo joined the family, and we worked hard on starting a veggie garden, and building coops to house our new Heritage breed chickens.

We chose Australorp chickens as they suit our climate, are robust and have a temperament suited to family life, are a dual purpose chicken that provide nutritious eggs for many, many years, all whilst improving our soils and pasture. We’ve since added a few other heritage breeds, and our son Ollie has also raised some ducks, and we’ve added their eggs into our diet also.

In 2020 we trialled raising pasture raised chickens for meat, and started offering our delicious pasture raised chickens to our local community in 2021. With the addition of Dorper, White Dorper and Aussie White Sheep, we’ve also added pasture raised lamb to our repertoire, whilst adding another element to our regenerative farming journey. In 2023 we also added pasture raised pork with pigs we purchase off Duroc and Hampshire breeders Dewsbury Pig Stud.

We’ve enjoyed sharing our food with friends and family, and we get great pleasure from creating wholesome meals created from what we produce here, and other local producers. We feel at ease knowing we are feeding our family nutritious and wholesome food.

We are delighted to be able to offer our pasture raised meat and our eggs to our local community…