to be continued…
Todd Alexander and Jeff Ross thought they had it made when they traded corporate city lives for Block 8, a vineyard and olive orchard at Bedford in the Hunter Valley. Then they had the bright idea of building five guest villas on the property and they added an endless rotation of making beds and cleaning bathrooms to the already onerous workload of winemaking and producing olives.
Regular readers might recall that Australian Country first caught up with Todd and Jeff slightly more than a year ago, when, after eight years building Block 8 into a hugely successful business, they called it a day. Feeling exhausted and as though they’d gone from the frying pan to the fire, they’d recently moved with their menagerie of rescue animals to 100 acres (40 hectares) at Lambs Valley, a secluded rural district enfolded by mountain ranges. They called the property Happy As, a reference to Helga, the pig that was the foundation of their burgeoning collection of animal friends, including sheep, goats, chickens and ducks.
As it turned out, for the second time in their lives, Jeff and Todd found fresh understanding of the adage “be careful what you wish for”. While they had plenty to keep them occupied at Happy As with the house to renovate, a garden to
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