Farm News

Ambers, Golds & the Vivid Reds of Autumn at Morvern Valley.

Autumn is breathtaking at Bundanoon, not only the magnificent colours - but even driving through the streets with the leaves falling down all around like snow, with even the slightest of breezes. Then you have those fabulous drifts of leaves on the ground, a natural mulch protecting the ground from the cold weather to come in the months ahead. Fantastic autumn fungi is really colourful and easy to see down near our creek.

After three years of searching NSW high and low, really networking in peacock and game bird circles, the phone rang late one night! Two days later we drove out to Bungonia and picked up a pair of white peacocks.

Just 5 mths old they really like each other.. rubbing their little necks together and hooting delightedly, they have settled in well and are living on the island in the middle of our farm dam - safe from foxes!

The peacock will start to show his tail in the first Spring, and each Spring it will get fuller and fuller with many more ‘eye’ feathers. Here is a photo of a mature white peacock from Bungonia, the father of our peahen!

Winter is here folks, lovely crunchy frost as you walk across the paddocks. Juicy marshmellows over the fire –trying to get them just right…..really melty - but not too burnt.

Already the bulbs are coming up, the jonquils, daffodils and iris’. From the rich earth the first shoots are working through - giving a promise of the new cycle ahead. The Morvern valley guesthouse property was a daffodil & bulb farm since 1910, the blooms cut and sent by rail to a flower stall at central Railway station.