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An amazing creation

Creating a major tourist destination couldn’t have been further from Rowan Clark’s mind when he went looking for ways to entertain his kids one late-summer’s afternoon. But as it turned out, that’s precisely what happened and the Rupertswood Farm Crop Maze is now a huge event on the Tasmanian calendar. Rowan and his wife, Anna, and their children, Molly, aged 13, Lindesay, 12, and Kate, nine, live at Hagley near Launceston in Tasmania’s north. Their farm, which has been in the Clark family since the 1930s, runs prime lambs and a range of

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