Mr. Farm is what happens when a city boy meets a paddock. We don't pretend to know everything, we make mistakes, some big ones. It's about the learning curve, because the learning curve is the whole point. We're not here to tell you how to farm. We're here to show you what it actually looks like when someone tries.
After spending twenty four years running a branding and web design business, and three months before the world shut down in 2020, Mr.Farm moved to Tasmania. What started as a change of scenery turned into four years of falling hard for the land — the pace of it, the quiet, the way problems out there are physical and real and solvable with your hands. Tasmania changed something in me. It made going back to the city feel impossible.
Mrs Farm had already been living that life. Fifteen years on a property in Victoria, breeding horses, rabbits and dogs, doing the actual work I was just starting to understand. We’d known each other since primary school — one of those friendships that had never quite disappeared. After my time in Tasmania ended, we found our way back to each other. The friendship rekindled, and everything else followed.
We both loved farm life. She was desperate for warmer weather, an he wanted to be closer to family. We moved north.
We found 130 acres on the NSW Mid North Coast — former cattle country, mostly cleared, with patches of bush and more weeds than either of us had bargained for. The house is simple. The soil is tired and needs work. There’s a long list of things still to do and a longer list of things we haven’t figured out yet. So far we’ve put in batteries, a large water tank, 6 dams, more post and rail horse fencing than anyone should have to do themselves, and a lot of hours pulling weeds. It doesn’t sound like much written down. It feels like everything when you’re in it.
Jack Russell
Dachshund
Dachshund
Dachshund x Jack Russell
Thinks he is a dog
Dorpers
Sebastapole & Toulouse
Mixed
The good days and the hard ones. The things that worked and the things that didn’t. How to build, grow, and restore. How to work with nature instead of against it. How to get more life onto the land, more flora, more fauna, more of the things that were here before we were. How to do all of this without chemicals, without shortcuts that cost the soil, and yes, sometimes with the help of a battery system and a home automation setup, because modern tools and old values aren’t actually opposites.
I’m not here because I had it figured out. I started anyway. If you’ve ever looked at your life and thought there might be more to it than the screen, the commute, and the weekend shop — this one’s for you.
