When the paddocks are brown and the lake is dry, there will always be a green patch around the homestead on Alan and Marilyn Wilson’s Oakwood farm near Minlaton on South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula. That’s thanks to the couple’s combined efforts across two decades since they extended the garden they inherited when they took over the family farm in 1969.
“Alan’s mother was a keen gardener,” Marilyn explains. “So we started with a good foundation. Although we did the major work in 1999, it looks like it’s been there a lot longer because it’s
