Organic Farm Stays in Australia
Excerpted from Market to Mouth
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Yesterday I mentioned the tiny farm isle of Churchill Island where the year-round once-monthly farmer’s market is held. Today I’m featuring the third island in south east Australia’s Western Port Bay: French Island.
Twice the landmass size of Phillip Island, where I’ve been for the past 10 days, French Island has comparatively few inhabitants bar a sizable koala population. In fact, there are only 60 full-time inhabitants on the island who are outnumbered by a couple of thousand (from recollection) very cute and sleepy koala bears.
Apparently Kylie’s farmlet had a full organic vegetable and fruit garden and plenty of koalas in the surrounding trees.
There’s another more public organic farm on French Island, McLeod Eco Farm. Formerly a mid-security jail and farm that operated until the 1970′s, it was transformed into an eco farm that began offering luxury-to-budget farm-stay accommodation in the former jail compound about 10 years ago.
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