Australian Country Homes

SEEDS OF INSPIRATION

As a youngster growing up in Brisbane’s northern suburbs, Susan Volz loved nothing more than holidays on her grandparents’ vegie farm in the Lockyer Valley. “We never had flash holidays,” she recalls. “All the cousins would get together and in the mornings we’d help out with harvest or whatever else needed doing on the farm. Then we’d all have lunch together and spend the afternoons running wild, swimming in the creek, building cubbies, doing what kids do when they are left to their own devices.”

Little wonder then that when Susan and her husband, David, went looking for somewhere to

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