In the early 1900s, an Exeter dairy farmer came into a major inheritance and built an extravagant house, Whare Tau. The house was in very poor shape when its current owners first saw it 25 years ago, but recognising its fine craftsmanship they jumped at the chance to restore it. Highlife visits one of Exeter’s most interesting and historic properties.
Bowral artist Harry Martin had a brilliant debut year in 2020, with two sell-out exhibitions in Sydney and Moree. On the eve of a Sydney exhibition in February, he tells Highlife how he drifted into landscape art and became obsessed, and why he’s learning to embrace mistakes.
Can you learn how to farm via YouTube? Less than four years ago, non-farmers Luke and Pia Winder threw in their Sydney jobs to start a free range farm, Tathra Place Free Range, near Taralga. Already they’ve had success with their duck, pork, beef, chicken, quail and eggs. They tell Highlife why they became regenerative farmers.
A Bowral landmark, the Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (OLSH) boys’ boarding school, is being resurrected as Waterbrook Bowral, a luxury retirement resort. Last year, before building commenced, photographers Ashley Mackevicius and Tony Sheffield visited the site, which was a convent school from 1904 and a boarding school from 1927 to 1979. Highlife finds out about its chequered history.
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