LURE OF THE LAND

THE COUNTRY HAS a way of seeping into your soul, and quietly living there, no matter where you go. Helen Curtis was born and bred on a farm in East Gippsland, Victoria, and then raised her own three, now adult, children in the region. But more than a decade ago she became a city dweller, living in inner-city Melbourne with her husband Rodney: that was until the longing set in.

“I grew up on a farm that my ancestors had lived on for 160 years, between Metung and the Tambo River, a beautiful part of the world,” says Helen, owner of Found, an antiques store