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Morgan Allender & Justin Hermes

THERE ISN’T MUCH THAT COULD make Morgan Allender and Justin Hermes leave the Adelaide Hills. “We do have fantasies of buying a loft apartment in Brooklyn, so if we don’t stay here forever, that’s what we’ll do,” Morgan laughs. “But it would have to be pretty special to take us away.” For the artist and founder of The Tenth Meadow floral boutique and her furniture designer boyfriend, it doesn’t look like they’re going anywhere anytime soon.

They purchased their rambling Woodside property five years ago and it has been a labour of love ever since. Sharing the five-acre site with Morgan and Justin are two Belted Galloway cows (Polly and Buttons), two donkeys (Gordon and Gregory), five nameless chickens, two

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