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For most of her adult life, Annie Jones lived in subtropical southern Queensland and read garden books that inspired dreams of plants she couldn’t grow. All that changed in 2016, when Annie and her husband, Chris, bought Glenrock, a 200-acre (80-hectare) working farm near the historic town of Tenterfield in the New England region of northern NSW.

The move to the pastoral industry was a return to roots for Chris as he grew up on a sheep and wheat property at Narrabri in the NSW north-west. For Annie, who grew up in Hobart, it was a chance to return to a temperate climate,

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