Time has flown by since this was made by Mark Shea from www.overlander.tv on his organic farming video making tour with Don MacFarlane. It was back in 1999, and the grass is longer than it has been for a long time now. I hope we have a good spring like that this year. I will … Read more
Cowra has certainly had quite a few writeups in the last six months and as the smallest of the NSW Central Ranges wine regions it is back on the wine lovers map. Through the hard work and cooperation of the region’s dozen or so vignerons, Cowra’s wine quality and sustainability has never been at such … Read more
Like the olives, the grapes were down in yield but up in quality, with the smallest tonnage picked since 2007. The fruit was mostly sold to organic wineries in the Hunter and Mudgee, with a small amount to be made into wine for us at Windowrie Estate (chardonnay sparkling) here at Cowra and Thistle Hill … Read more
Olive harvest was in mid May. We harvested about 9 tonnes of oil olives, over half of which was contracted and leaving us with only about 600 litres of olive oil. We had a tough season, but we are not the only ones. The crop in many parts of Australia is said (by our harvest … Read more
Its been a couple of months since the screening of ‘The Best of Australian Shorts’ and the entries to the Rosnay Go for the O! video competition at Rosnay. People are still talking about that night, under a clear and still March night sky, when about 130 people enjoyed the pleasures of original and daring … Read more
It is with honour that Rosnay was invited to be the official wine supplier to Flickerfest 19th International Film Festival, alongside Coopers beer, Jameson whisky and Pheonix organic juices. The selection of Rosnay Organic wine was part of a move by festival director Bronwyn Kidd and her team to make Flickerfest a green event, using … Read more
2009 VINTAGE REPORTThe season began quite normally, or seemed normal, as we start to call the drought “normal”! The 2008 winter was once again dry, but we ended up with pretty decent spring rain giving shallow soil moisture to help the vines and olives shoot away in the spring. The 21st of October 2008 was … Read more
In the last month we have installed 48 x 60watt solar panels on Sam and Simone’s house, Richard and Florence’s house, and Dolly’s house. In total we are now putting nearly 3kilowatts back into the grid, per hour of sunlight. Thats the equivalent of three small generators! We beleive this will cover almost all of … Read more
IT IS MORE SUSTAINABLE!Finally the intelligentzia is seeing the light. In October 2008, the United Nations (UNCTAD) published a report on “Organic agriculture and food security in Africa” and concluded that “organic agriculture can be more conducive to food security in Africa than most conventional production systems, and it is more likely to be sustainable … Read more
I recently had the privelige of chairing two local public meetings during the recent tour of two North American farmers, Ross Murray and Moe Parr. After feeling somewhat demoralised by the NSW government’s ending of the GM crop moratorium last year, meeting these two farmers gave me new motivation to keep trying to hold back … Read more