Sunningdale Farm is open today as part of South Australia's Open Garden Scheme. Mosquito Hill Rd, Mount Compass
10am-4.30pm. $6.00
It is a lovely drive to Mt Compass and a lovely organic farm to visit.
Kate visited Sunningdale Farm open day in 2007, here is what she wrote -
SUNNINGDALE FARM
Anne Duguid is a gardener after my own heart. Plants are allowed to come up and grow where they like and vegs and flowers co-exist happily together, making a carpet of intricate detail and fascination at every turn. The house is on a rise and is surrounded by a ring of garden so that every door of the house opens onto vegetables, herbs and flowers. They include such companion plants as parsley, yarrow, tansy, coreopsis, fever few, cosmos, leeks and buddleias which attract ladybirds, lacewings, hoverflies, beetles, wasps, bees etc.
Beyond the house are 190 rolling acres of organic / biodynamic vealer calves. Beyond this you can see the Murray and the lakes. Picturesque is inadequate to describe the property. The drive in is through scrub in which they have identified 45 varieties of birds. There is a trail mown through the bush for walking and, after the recent rains, everything is lush and green . Anne is a lovely person and very welcoming. Together with her husband Phil they run the property. If they have another open day I would suggest you go and soak it up.
The drive to Mt Compass via Hahndorf is beautiful after the rain and there are great venison hamburgers to be had at a cafe in Mt Compass ! A lovely mothers' day.
Chaiselongue from the blog Olives & Artichokes has a good post 'Why do we garden?'. Check it out.
Happy Autumn Gardening and Happy Mothers Day.
Maggie
Labels: Biodynamics, Food for health, Garden, Visits
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1 comment:
I heard it was going to be open today and I just wish I could have arrived a bit sooner and had a trip there again myself.
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