Our Story

The possibilities and potential of the rich red volcanic soil stirred the ‘farmers’ from within.  Both of us grew up on farms. We made the decision that we were not going to rely on farming incomes for our young family in our earlier years.  We had lived the struggles of growing up in a family on the land, through long droughts and floods.  So now, all these years later, when in search of a more peaceful lifestyle, we decided to move back to the land. However, we knew a more diversified approach to farming was required.

The question of ‘what do we do’ with all this land loomed. (The farm was bigger than we were initially looking for, but the views are spectacular). The local area is rich in agriculture with the main crops at the time being peanuts, corn, wheat, beans, stone fruit, olives and wine (Which we knew nothing about).

With a Mediterranean climate, we looked for a unique crop that was not equipment intensive, as we didn’t have much, and was tolerant of the climatic conditions of the area. The temperatures can fluctuate with very cold winters of -4 to above 40+ degree days in summer. Long dry seasons and few wet seasons.  It varies.  We had been inspired by a story about Capers seen on ABC Landline, and we felt that they would fit our criteria, so why not give them a go. So that’s where it started.