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Healthful and Heartfelt

The journey north-west from Brisbane’s centre takes a winding route through residential enclaves before suburban sprawl disappears in rear-view and narrow mountain roads lined with towering eucalypts beckon. Approaching the hamlet of Samford a new world unfolds, a place of clean air and tranquility that has all the promise of good country living. Beyond the valley, amidst six hectares of bushland, Lee and Lee-Anne Stevens, their daughter, Poppy (four) and pet pup, Lillee, have created a clean living sanctuary. They call it the Greenhouse.

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