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    MARA RIPANI

    Jun 14, 2020 5 minutes
    Words Samantha Allemann
    Photos by Mara Ripani

    Mara and her husband Ralf, an environmental engineer, live on 15 acres outside of Daylesford in Blampied with their daughters, 15-year-old Ahlia and Artemisia, eight. Their farm is known as Orto, which is the Italian word for vegetable garden. Orto is where Mara’s days are spent cooking, growing, preserving, teaching workshops, hosting volunteer farm stay and bed and breakfast guests, and much more.

    MARA’S SUSTAINABILITY JOURNEY

    When she was nine years old, Mara and her family moved to Australia from Italy and settled in Ballarat. Her Italian upbringing formed her conviction to follow a low-impact lifestyle.

    ‘My Nonna always lived with us and her presence instilled in my sister and I a real sense of the value of things,’ says Mara. ‘It was

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