Wandered around the Hawkesbury area visiting farms last weekend. Support the local economy, healthy, organic greenie activity... Would never have believed it, me supporting the environment. Must be old age!
The Hawksbury food bowl is one of the most productive regions of Australia, about an hour's drive north west of Sydney.
Couple of standouts, the Clarendon Organic Free Range egg farm was one. A dozen organic free range eggs for $5, a bargain.
The chooks were strolling in these large paddocks, protected by a pack of
Italian Sheepdogs bark was a lot worse than their bite.
Always wondered how the eggs are found and collected if they're laid all over the paddock. Oddly, the hens only lay their eggs in mobile hen coops (well trained hens). Who knew?
Next stop, pick your own apples. One thing I've discovered, apples straight off a tree is nothing like what we buy at the supermarkets. Much, much juicer and sweeter!
It was one for the basket, one for me (one is only charged for what's in the basket).
More fruits.
In season are pears, plums and apples.
Was never too keen on apples, but have somehow been converted! It's not just the apples but the whole idea of growing your own stuff. I could quite happily be a farmer.
Read more about the Farm Gate Trail here and experience it before all these farms disappear under Sydney's urban sprawl!
Read more about the Farm Gate Trail here and experience it before all these farms disappear under Sydney's urban sprawl!
