Childers, Australia

The final phase at Vintner's

On our first day back we had an early start to visit the nearby Apple Tree Creek market, a very country affair, with plants, homemade crafts, some frankly disgusting fudge, chooks, farm implements and one or two hippy-esque stalls. During the next week we did a variety of tasks: from...

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LizIsHere on August 21, 2010 from Childers, Australia

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vintner;s

We finally finished pruning on the 4th August at around 2pm (although we had to leave a tantasling two vines long for a newspaper photographer to record the next day). Then we had the afternoon off, relaxing in the hammock, the orchards and one the upstairs verandah with books and journals. ...

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LizIsHere on August 5, 2010 from Childers, Australia

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Vintner's cont'd

We pruned for four days plus the training day, up and ready at eight to head down to the vines with our gloves, hats, secateurs, water bottles and suntan lotion (the vines are only a three-minute max. walk from the house but it saved running back and taking our shoes on and off all day). The...

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LizIsHere on August 4, 2010 from Childers, Australia

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Vintner's Secret Vineyard - WWOOF heaven?

We were a little worried on our journey from Agnes Waters to Childers, to meet our new WWOOF hosts from Vintner's Secret Vineyard. Could anywhere be worse than our Townsville host’s? (Well, yes, of course...). Our nerves weren’t helped by a thirty-minute ‘meal break’ stop at Apple Tree Creek...

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LizIsHere on July 27, 2010 from Childers, Australia

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