Misty Tamborine Mountain, an idyllic rainforest region in the Scenic Rim about an hour southwest of Brisbane, is full of stunning subtropical gardens.
Chanelle Hepplewhite, Daniel Briffa and their son Sabbath share their quarter-acre block with two lovely dogs — Vegas, a very senior dachshund, and Lunar, a camp dog from a remote community — plus a flock of chooks that deliver an average of eight eggs a day.
The Hepplewhite-Briffa family is relatively new to the gardening caper but already theirs is one of the six gardens on the Tamborine Mountain Edible Garden Trail.
A vet nurse who runs a doggy daycare business from home, Chanelle first got serious about