Tasmanian Luxury Eco Experience includes homegrown

 

 

Our Tasmanian Luxury Eco Experience now includes home grown, thanks to some clever recycling.

 

We had tried growing produce before, and the pademelons, and wombats, and echidnas, and possums, and bandicoots loved it!
To be honest, we didn’t know who was eating it, other than saying with some certainty that it wasn’t the platypus!

 

As the wildlife is very much a part of the experience of Truffle Lodge, we just had to wear it.

 

Then Janine, our roustabout had an idea. She had seen some old wooden fruit crates at a property and drove a good deal with the farmer.

 

So when I say that we have wonderful homegrown on site…. I am not just talking about the produce.

 

 

Janine

 

Janine is home grown also. Born and bred in the Valley, Janine is an amazing woman.

 

She is an highly acclaimed endurance horse rider.
When I first met Janine, I was told by others of her strength and grit. I was told that she had completed most of a 40km cross country with a broken collar bone. Having fallen in the first few kilometres, she just tucked her hand inside her shirt, and kept riding.

 

Oh yes, I thought, slightly exaggerated!

 

Then one very busy night in one of our restaurants, she proved it was no exaggeration. Very early in the service Janine cut herself, as chefs do from time to time. (Oh yes, she is multi talented too). It was Easter and the restaurant was booked to over flowing, so Janine just bandaged it up and kept working.

 

After work she drove herself to Hobart emergency department where they sewed up her severed finger tendon.

 

They breed them tough in the Valley.

 

As I have got to know Janine more, the more impressed I have been. She brought up her kids on her own – the eldest is just finishing medicine. Janine once told me she had always been debt free. She purchased the land for her horse breeding, and then self- built shed and a house. Naturally she used free salvaged materials wherever possible, because the money was needed for breeding stock.

 

She breeds and trains endurance horses and sells them all over the world. A guest a Truffle Lodge recently visited her property and has since introduced her to a Singaporean horse trader.

 

Janine can turn her hand to almost anything. She was a key player in the construction of Truffle Lodge – she had grown up beside her carpenter dad.

 

 

Back to the vegie boxes

 

So no surprise that Janine has vegies flourishing in the boxes, well out of reach of our lovely local critters. And no surprise that they are loving the well composted manure from her horses.

 

Oh, and Janine took this photo also. I told you – multi-talented!