Wellacres

Wellacres is a 5 acre property set on low impact flood plain, surrounded by 80 acres of natural bushland and melaluca swamp.  We’ve been at this property now for 15 years.  We’ve always grown vegetables and some fruit trees, but expanded the gardens during covid to include more native trees and other varieties, included native bush foods.  The last few years have been challenging with three consecutive floods in 3 years and in some cases parts of the garden were under over 40cm of water.  There are many challenges on this property, the flooding, the frosts, the dry times and the wildlife (rabbits, rats and bandicoots as well as flying foxes and possums).  The frosts this year have been particularly brutal and very early in the season.  This year we had the added issue of losing our honeybees to the varroa extermination, so pollination will be more challenging this year.  We have dogs, chicken and geese on the property and utilise loads of free aborist mulch, worm wee and casing as well as many compost bins, with the added outputs from the poultry.