I don’t mind a drive in the country. Seeing new country is the best, different soils and trees always tell a story and no description does the justice of being there. Last month I drove out through the lower Hunter, left onto the Golden Highway and headed towards Dubbo. I camped the night at a small town and got a cheap...

At the farm, we get a longer Winter than most. Our elevation means that Spring starts a little later, some years we can be still cutting wood for the fire, well into October. As you leave Barraba some 30kms away and some 250m below us, the Summer feed is well away. The fodder oats are waist high and the native grasses...