AT HOME WITH HISTORY
As Steph Burbury describes a day in the garden at Bowsden, her home in Tasmania’s Southern Midlands, it’s more like an archaeological dig than an encounter with Mother Nature. “You never know what’s going to turn up,” she says. “In the 30 years I’ve been living here we’ve uncovered everything from fragments of old china and pipes to 19th-century coins.”
Steph came to Bowsden, which has been in the Burbury family since 1928, when she married her husband, Charles. They have raised their three adult sons on the historic property near Jericho in the Oatlands district, and continue a sheep-farming tradition that was established in 1822, when Dr John Maule Hudspeth
