Midwinter Harvests: A Tour of our Tropical Fruit Farm

Come for a harvest tour of the fruit orchards. Winter is the most abundant time!
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We are sisters, Julia and Anastasia Vanderbyl. A few years ago, we began a journey to live a life in perfect harmony with nature. A life of caring for animals, growing fruit, planting trees, gardening, cooking, creating, building and learning to live with the land.
In this time, nature has taught us more than we could have ever imagined.


Our environmental films document the landscape, the lessons we’ve learnt and our work as regenerative farmers here on Bundjalung Country.


We live on the land of the Arakwal and Minjungbal People of the Bundjalung Nation. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the Country we live on and recognise their continuing connection to the land and waters. We thank them for protecting this rainforest and its ecosystems since time immemorial.
0:00 Cluster fig harvest
1:21 Picking bush lemons
2:34 Hog plums
3:14 Chocolate pudding fruit
3:48 A 100 year old orange tree
4:56 Longons
5:16 Ice cream bean
5:50 Kiwi fruit
8:24 Avocados
10:21 Macadamias, Loquats and a mystery fruit
12:40 Sheep
13:43 Lipstick bush, grapefruit, guavas and pecans
16:01 Candle nuts and jaboticabas
17:29 A special orchard with hundreds of trees
18:38 Starfruit