Welcome to A Plot in Common.
This is the life my husband Benji and I are slowly building on a 45-acre farm in Tenterfield, NSW — a place we bought at the end of 2024 and are now gently bringing back to life.
We’re both in our 50s, with three children now in their early twenties, and this chapter of life has felt like a return to something we’ve always been drawn to — growing food, making things by hand, and living a little closer to the land.
When our children were small, we spent five years on a small farm in Victoria. It was a simple kind of life — gardens, long tables, food from the land, and people gathered around our kitchen. In many ways, this place feels like a continuation of that time.
These days we move between Brisbane and the farm, spending time with family and slowly working on the land whenever we’re here. Most days on the farm are a mix of gardening, cooking, fixing, building, and noticing the small changes as the seasons move through.
I love growing food, cooking and preserving, making things with my hands, knitting, and redesigning spaces as we live in them.
Benji is an urban designer, but here he works with his hands — building, repairing, imagining, and shaping the bones of this place alongside me.
Recently, we’ve started opening the farm to others through small seasonal gatherings and long lunches. It feels important to us that this place isn’t just something we work on alone, but something that can be shared — a place to slow down, eat well, sit at a long table, and spend time together in a different rhythm.
We’re still at the beginning of it all. We’re learning as we go, and nothing is perfect or fully figured out. But that feels like part of it too.
You can also find me on Instagram, where I share more of the in-between moments — what I’m wearing on the farm, what we’re cooking, and the small, everyday parts of this life as it unfolds.
If you feel drawn to it, you’re very welcome here.
Tash xx
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