FROM THE GROUND UP
WHILE JADE MILES and her partner Charlie Showers have only lived at Black Barn Farm for three years, it’s been a dream in the making for almost two decades. What began as an idea when they were idealistic 23-year-old university graduates, is now almost fully realised.
Located nine kilometres from Beechworth in the gentle hills of Stanley in north-east Victoria, Black Barn Farm was originally eight hectares of orchards, which were pulled out in the early 1980s. But since Jade and Charlie moved their young family (twins Harry and Bertie, 12, and eight-year-old Clementine — also known as Minnie) into the property’s weatherboard homestead in 2016, the land has been transformed into organic permaculture produce gardens, a small-scale orchard, a nursery and an education centre.
