ROCK OF AGES

DAMIAN CANNY’S LONG-TIME LOVE of the wide open spaces and big skies of Victoria’s Western District harks back to his youth. It was his early connection with the area’s fertile volcanic soils, along with his appreciation for time-worn bluestone homesteads steeped in history, that drew him back to Barunah Plains at Hesse, 126 kilometres south-west of Melbourne.

Damian had known of Barunah Plains since he was a teenager, when he worked nearby as a station