THE PERFUMED GARDEN

A TINY FARM THAT GROWS THREE KINDS OF GARLIC AND BOTH ORNAMENTAL AND EDIBLE FLOWERS HAS TO BE HEAVEN SCENT

Chris Stafford

The historic Hunter Valley town of Dungog takes its name from a word in the local Gringrai language meaning “place of thinly wooded hills”. Drive a short distance through flat dairy country and into the rolling foothills to the southeast and you reach Marshdale. On a gentle rise overlooking a winding country road perches Four Acre Farm, a 100-year-old farmhouse fronted by a cottage garden and surrounded by not-sothinly wooded hills. It’s home to Dominique Northam and Tom Christie, Evelyn, 2, and baby Jude plus an excitable dog or two. Oh, and a small flock of Muscovy ducks. It’s business out the back at Four Acre Farm, where row upon row of blueishgreen garlic spears wave in the breeze. In little more than five years on the property, Dom and Tom have…

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Good Organic Gardening (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue#9.4 - 2018

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