Millpost Permaculture Long Lunch & Farm Tour- Winter Festival 2026

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Millpost Permaculture Long Lunch & Farm Tour

Join David Watson for a guided tour of Millpost Farm, one of the longest continually worked broad-scale permaculture properties, established in 1979.

Visitors will explore the productive vegetable gardens and diverse plantings surrounding the farm’s heritage-listed homestead dating from the 1870s, while learning how decades of permaculture design have shaped the landscape.

The tour includes a visit to the plant nursery, worm farms, compost toilets and a glasshouse built with a cob wall for thermal mass, showcasing practical and innovative approaches to sustainable living.

To provide visitors with a broader view of the farm, there will be a short walk ( 1 kilometre) to look more closely at the extensive tree planting that has transformed the property, incluDINg large stands of oaks, poplars and other deciduous trees, along with native shelter belts and wildlife corridors established through tube-stock planting, direct seeding and natural regeneration where stock have been excluded.

Millpost Farm focuses on building landscape resilience, sustainable productivity and improved water retention in the face of climate change and biodiversity loss. The farm’s main enterprise is the production of superfine merino wool, alongside milking cows and free-range chooks.

Tickets will include a hot lunch which will showcase Millpost mutton, prepared by Cassandra Simakoff-Ellims of Cork Street Cafe in Gundaroo.
(Vegetarians will be catered for)

Sunday 19 July | 10:00am – 3:30pm
What to wear: Please dress warmly and wear paddock-strength shoes or gumboots. 
Lunch Location: Weather permitting, lunch will be served in the courtyard. In the event of poor weather it will be in the shearing shed – which is undercover but not heated.
Families with children: We warmly welcome families! However, please be aware that the property is not suitable for prams.

Member $70
Non-Member $75
Children under 12 $40