Osmington Mill Garlic is situated on the historic Osmington Wood Mill property about 20 km from Margaret River. We purchased the property in 2004. At the beginning of 2005 we sold our house in the hills area of Perth and with our two young children, Phoebe and Blake, moved into an old Group Settlement cottage next door to our farm. In 2006 we ‘hand’ built our home and began the long process of setting up a working farm.
In 2010 we began the process of building up our garlic stocks with the plan to sell the garlic at local markets and online. We initially planted a number of different varieties to see which grew best in our soils and climate. As the farm was previously part of a highly successful wool growing operation and more recently used to raise beef cattle, weed control is a major task. As we do not use chemical sprays to control weeds, weeding has become a full-time occupation.
In 2013 our goal was reached and we started selling garlic to the public (Purple Stripe and Rojo). All of our garlic is hand planted, hand weeded and hand harvested; as Richard says our garlic is ‘Handmade’.