Morningsun Herb (and More) Farm

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www.morningsunherbfarm.com/mint13_1.html

A friend from high school and her husband own this plant farm just down the valley from our house. (She is the gal Rose who is in the picture next to the dog). She and her husband have blossomed this business from a simple stop on the road to appearing on radio and distributing their plants to some nurseries and at Farmer's Markets. There are classes on soap making, gardening, cooking....it is quite the destination for gardners when they have "Tomato Days" where you can sample LOTS of different tomatoes! It's not just an herb farm, but a good place to get all my vegetables for the garden.

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It is lovely having a herb farm to visit. I remember there was one in the hills from our hometown when the children were little. We visited and bought some things I think, and from memory I think the children may have tipped out the dirt! Then after we moved from there, there was a herb farm where we rented a year before coming here 4 years ago, but I didn't end up visiting there was usually going somewhere when I went past it.

I am waiting for the pictures to load and just noticed a swan plant. We have one growing near the front door! I bought it in a street stall not long after moving here. We had so many butterflies hatch after we grew this bush. Nothing last year, hopefully they will come again. Have moved a plant to the new house as well.

They even have an angels trumpet, we have just put one in and it is slowly growing and recovering from an unusual very late frost.

The gardens there are really my style. Are they sunflowers in one of the photos?

The Australian native dried flowers are in lovely colours (with Jenny still on the stalk).

Rose looks lovely, they all look so happy and it is a lovely place.


I remember watching a tomato day similar on River Cottage. It was very interesting. Tomatoes have always been big, when I was little on the farm and when first married in our own garden. Vegetables were always put in with the tobacco crop on our farm when I was little as well. Do you grow borlotti beans happyathome? There were some in the paddock one year and the image has never left me, so pretty. I tend to buy them canned lately.

My mother was saying lately she buys seedlings (starts?) of vegetables these days instead of seeds.

I have a favourite salvia, bright pink with a knob shape at the end. Maybe it is called rose leaved sage.