Jubilee Lake Holiday Park

Jubilee Lake Holiday Park is just 2.5km from Daylesford’s busy Vincent Street and is situated within the Jubilee Lake Reserve – classified by the National Trust as a unique, historical reserve. The Park provides affordable, safe and clean accommodation so you can enjoy a time of joy and wonder for families and visitors that will be long remembered and cherished. Around the lake you can enjoy fishing, canoeing, bushwalking and bird watching. There is a huge oval and a modern playground. Your pets are always welcome and our peacocks will keep you amused. There’s a wide variety of accommodation including self-contained cabins, powered and unpowered sites, and bush camping sites. You can keep yourself warm with individual fire pits for each site or take a stroll to our own mineral spring within the reserve. Come and enjoy all year-round fun and entertainment.

The sky rolls wide and blue above Pig and Earth, a sustainable free-range organic pig farm on the volcanic plains near Kingston.

For owners Will Bennett and Emma Horsburgh, raising and selling fresh pork that’s been lovingly grown here allows them to lead a way of life that meshes with their ethos. A walking tour of the 16-hectare farm quickly illustrates that the Old English Large Black breed pigs that forage here - and their cute-as-pie piglets - clearly enjoy their days. There’s plenty of wallowing in troughs, snuffling for ground treasures, piggy pranks and luxuriating in that rich volcanic earth. “Each pig has plenty of room to roam, and spends their entire lives outdoors, with access to shelter from bad weather. Because they’re social animals, our pigs are generally kept in pairs or small groups, and young pigs are kept in sibling groups.” Emma is Sydney-born and also works for Environment Victoria. Will, a Victorian, has a degree in agricultural science, studied fine art at Ballarat’s Federation University, and tries to read 52 books every year. Read the full story at www.tlnews.com.au - Edition 277

Flowers are good for the soul. So says Lyonville’s Janae Paquin-Bowden. And she should know.

Together with her husband Chris, Janae owns and runs organic family flower farm, Fleurs de Lyonville, where the couple live with their two young children and their yin and yang, black and white, little terrier dogs. It’s the sort of job description that makes the word “idyllic” spring to mind. “It’s physically hard, and a bit taxing on the body, and the weather is challenging. But there’s so many rewarding stages.” The couple’s organic flower farm journey started back in 2014 after they experienced some issues in finding flowers for their wedding. “Thankfully we came across Matt and Lentil from Grown and Gathered who were growing flowers for trade at the time. When Lentil pulled up in her van and opened the back door, I couldn’t believe my eyes. The van was full of flowers and foliage from foxgloves to Queen Anne’s lace...we knew this was what we wanted to do on our farm. Grow flowers.”

Read the full story at www.tlnews.com.au - Edition 278