Gundowring Grown

09/10/2026

Too cute not to share…

and where can we get one please

08/10/2026

Get your delicious Gundowring Grown fresh farm eggs at the Albury Wodonga Farmers Market this Saturday.

The borders weekly farmers market is on every
Saturday 8am - 12noon
Lincoln Causeway Wodonga.
Open in all weather. ☔️ 🌫☀️
🌻 Make a purchase at any stall & go into the draw to WIN a $50 market voucher to spend at the market, drawn weekly.
🐕Your pets are very much welcome on a short lead, no retractable leads, thankyou. We love seeing your pets each market. Please bring a p**p bag too.
🛍To reduce waste bring your shopping bags, reusable cup for a coffee, some stalls will load up your containers so you can transport your market treats home safe & fresh.
Have an amazing weekend 🙂
This weeks stall holders* include

Goodlookin Googees
RAD growers
Back to Earth Soaps
Barista's Choice Coffee
Verduci’s Fresh Produce
Albury-Wodonga Woodcrafters Inc.
Cloud 9 Coffee
Lemonhead
GIGS Art Gallery
Formichi Smallgoods
Markwood Mushrooms
Gundowring Grown
nut groves
Silky Oak
Tommy’s Microgreens.
Walkers Naturally Healthy
The Authentic French Crepe
MR Chevapi
Noi Dep Flower Farm
West Walla Farm
Telopea Mtn nursery
Bunyip Hollow
Gamila at Beechworth
Louisa Morris Cakes
Homemade by Annie
Ovens River Nuts
Luisa's Divine Blossoms
The Lebanese Sweet Co.
Slow Grown Foods
ACF Community Albury Wodonga Region (ACF-AWR)

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HAVE A FABULOUS WEEKEND!
*Correct at the time of posting. We are all small business & sole traders, issues do pop up from time to time

07/10/2026

🌱 WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE FARM THIS WEEK! and whats coming up!!🐔🌻

It’s been a busy one around here! (grab a coffee or a w**e, kombucha or hydrogen water and get up to speed!)

Yesterday we had the slabs poured for our secret project 👀🤫 We can’t wait to share more with you soon! A sneaky pic in today’s stories!

🐔 THE CHICKS ARE GROWING!
Our White Leghorn hybrids turn 4 weeks old tomorrow, which means they’re ready for off-heat life, more dirt, sunshine and all the good stuff! ☀️🌱 (keep an eye on tomorrows story for a few fun pics of the kids showing them the new outdoor run!)

And with the next batch of day-olds arriving in just 7 days, we need to make some room…

✨ 36 of our White Leghorn girls will be available at 6 weeks old! ✨

These girls are one of our absolute favourites here on the farm. They lay a beautifully large eggs, often 70g+ and are fantastic backyard layers.

You can reserve a pack of 2, 4 or 6 for pickup after October 20th (they’ll be just over 6 weeks old then).

🐥 ISA BROWN FREE RANGERS
We’ll also have 40 x day-old ISA Brown free rangers (sexed female) arriving next Friday!

Available in packs of 6, 8 or 10 perfect if you’re looking to add some fresh little ladies to your flock. (will need heat for 4-6 weeks)🤎

🥚 EASTER EGGER & OLIVE EGGER CHICKS
After October 20th, our final batch of Easter Eggers & Olive Eggers will be available to take home as day-olds. Packs of 6, 10 or 15 available.

🏡 HOME DELIVERY EGG ROUND!
The paddock girls are laying up a storm, so we’ve opened up 10 spots on our fortnightly EGG home-delivery egg round! 🥚🥚🥚
- If you are lucky enough to live along our delivery path and want fresh farm eggs delivered to your door, send us a message to grab a spot. delivery is free 🫣🤫😅

🐐 The goats are doing wonderfully,
🥚 we’ve got some extra places to buy our eggs - woohoo!
🌻 the sunflower seeds are officially in,
🌸 and we’re about to start looking for our part-time farm help for the upcoming pick-your-own flower season!

So much happening, and we’re loving every minute of it. 💚 (and I left all the cool construction stuff off this post! so I have something to share next week.)

Want to reserve chicks, join the egg delivery round, or find out more? Send us a message! 🐔🌱

For now, it’s a quick bolangnase whip up then back to moving 300 laying hens from one caravan to another so we can make some renovations…

The answer is always yes. Life is for living. 🤪😜😍😘

01/10/2026

Two new additions to the farm today
Meet Varna and Obi our new lawnmowers thanks to the recommendation from Local Tree Care and a request from child number two.

A quick stop by husbands workplace on the way home for goat cuddles and they are both now cuddled up together snoozing.

I am sure you will see them featured in upcoming facebook stories.

For now we are just loving preparing bottles and adding it to the list of never ending farm jobs. Live the life you love they say!

Actually, the saying is … “love what you do for work and you’ll never work a day in your life.”

I tend to disagree, slightly.

Love your job and you will work, harder and longer, find ways around, over and under every obstacle and I guarantee it will work out. Because energy is everything.

Believe it and it will be.

After all, Gundowring Grown was just a dream, a thought, a wish… and we made it happen. We willed it here.

Chickens, Goats, Flowers, House Cow and all.

To be continued.

Thanks for the extra goat love today Tonkin Group

30/09/2026

🐝 The quiet workers that keep everything moving

A hive is a pretty remarkable thing.

Worker bees don’t spend their days chasing attention. They get on with the job…collecting, building, feeding, cleaning, pollinating and caring for the hive. Each little job might seem insignificant on its own, but together they keep the whole system healthy and productive.

There’s a lot we can learn from that on the farm.

Here, we try to work with the systems already around us rather than fighting against them. Healthy soil, diverse pasture, thriving insects, animals doing what animals do best, and plenty of observation all play a part.

Bees are one small piece of that bigger picture. They move through the paddocks doing their work, pollinating plants as they go, while the farm carries on around them.

Good farming isn’t always about doing more.

Sometimes it’s about creating the conditions where all the little workers - seen and unseen - can do what they do best. 🌱🐝

Work with nature. Look after the system. Let the small things add up.

27/09/2026

Sunday reflections….It felt odd not going to the market today Albury Rotary Sunday Market
Not seeing the smiles of many who passed admiring the tulips.

I felt full spending a day at home, on the farm with family, and an extra special guest (if you caught her at the Albury Wodonga Farmers Market on Saturday you will know who that was)

So nice to have (almost) all the family at home on a Sunday just pottering around.

I did plan to get some prep-work done on the new vegetable patch…but the universe clearly had other ideas. (photo 2)

Sitting down to dinner I am still admiring the beauty if what must have been my favourite tulip for the season.

She stood the test of time, every day, stood tall, looked exhausted and almost sad when the weather was a little too hot but bounced right back inside with some water, love and cooler environment. (still going strong after 2 weeks cut in the photo pictured)

Not usual fan of yellow. You won my heart “strong gold” - affectionately named “big yellow” here.

Perhaps a reflection of my style 😬🫣 this year.
We loved her. She was gold, she can come again next year

What was your favourite tulip from Gundowring Grown

26/09/2026

🐥🐣🥚 From chicken to egg… or is it egg to chicken?

These little ladies are just two weeks old. White Leghorn hybrids, and already growing everyday.

In about four months, they should start laying those beautiful, pure white eggs, around 70g each.

Last year’s batch taught us a few things.

They started laying bang on 16 weeks and some of those eggs were so big 80-90g they didn’t even fit in the carton. 😂

But there was a lesson in that too.

We’d been feeding too much grower feed and, as a result, the birds developed fast. Too fast.

That rapid growth can create all sorts of issues with bird health and laying.

So this year, we’ve deliberately slowed things down.

Less is sometimes more.

Overfeeding, or feeding the wrong thing at the wrong stage, can cause problems. And when you think about it, the same principle applies to us.

Slow food.
Slow growth.
Calm systems.
Less stress.

The goal is healthy, resilient birds that can grow at their own pace and, hopefully, produce bloody good eggs along the way.

In just a few days, when they hit three weeks old, these little rascals will head outside during the day.

Grass. Dirt. Bugs. Sunshine.

They’ll learn to scratch, forage and do what chickens do, while getting some much needed natural light and vitamin D.

Because they’re not fully feathered yet, we keep their daytime area covered, essentially like a little greenhouse, so they can get outside without getting chilled.

It’s a gradual transition.

Build some resilience.
Get them used to the elements.
Let them learn the world is bigger than a brooder.

There are plenty of different ways to raise chickens. Large scale operations often keep birds in sheds, sometimes for their first 12 to 16 weeks and sometimes throughout their productive lives.

There are reasons for those systems, and they can work.

We’ve just chosen a different path.

So follow along and watch these little fluffballs go from chicken to egg.

Or is it egg to chicken? 🤔

Either way, we’ll keep you posted.

🐥🐣🥚

24/09/2026

As the season winds up my hands are saying they will miss picking and wrapping beautiful tulips every few days.

My brain is thinking ahead to what bulbs we will order for next year..

My heart is full of gratitude from all the support we have experienced.

My legs, glutes, ankles, quads, … pretty much everything is sore from the awkward posture of picking and wrapping.

I wish I had taken a photo of everyone that purchased a bunch, and the smiles that followed.

In my post corporate lifestyle and semi-retired farm life (I mean I think I work longer harder days now than I ever did behind a desk right!) life looks and feels so free. Not stress free but un-chained. Flowers and food bring so much joy to people.

So from here on in when the times are tough on the farm I will rewind to the gorgeous smiles and the beautiful people that tulips brought across our paths.

See you on Saturday Albury Wodonga Farmers Market for one last Tulip Hooray (and half price eggs for the first 200 dozen - 4 dozen limit per customer)

Then we take a small break from flowers until the next show stopper arrives…. until then 🌻

You can continue to support us buying our eggs 🥚we do a fortnightly market and fortnightly home delivery. Msg for details.

22/09/2026

🐔 HOW DID 6 CHICKENS TURN INTO 60… THEN 600?! 🥚

When we started with a handful of chickens, we completely underestimated just how quickly the numbers and the WORK, would grow.

Because 600 chickens means A LOT of eggs.

And those eggs don’t magically jump from the nesting boxes into cartons. 😂

They have to be collected.
Hand graded.
Checked.
Packed.
And then somehow we have to find homes for ALL of them… every single week!

Huge shoutout to my quarter-century bestie who came to the rescue with a few school-holiday helpers when the spring influx hit. 🙌

Our lay rate basically went from 35% to 70% overnight and suddenly we had eggs coming out of our ears!

And now… our next challenge:

🥚 WHAT ON EARTH DO WE DO WITH AN EXTRA 300 DOZEN EGGS?! 🥚

Facebook has already been an absolute blessing in helping us share the tulip love 🌷, so we’re hoping it can work its magic again as we prepare for what might be our craziest move yet.

👉 THIS WEEKEND WE’RE TAKING 200 DOZEN EGGS TO THE ALBURY WODONGA FARMERS MARKET!

Yes, apparently it’s going to be 27 degrees.
Yes, it’s the grand final day.
And yes… we’re still bringing 200 dozen eggs. 😂

We’re kinda hoping everyone remembers that eggs contain protein and protein fixes everything…

Unless you’re allergic to eggs.

Then, ummm… definitely don’t do that. 😂

🥚 GET THERE EARLY!

Limit of 4 dozen per person.

And because we need the space, we’re doing something a little crazy:

🔥 HALF-PRICE EGGS! 🔥

Yep. HALF PRICE.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with these eggs. We simply need to move some stock, free up some space and put a few extra dollars towards getting that cool room sorted!

And if you’re someone who likes knowing exactly where your food comes from, here’s another thing we’re pretty proud of:

Our eggs are packed with the natural bloom intact.

We don’t wash our eggs to remove dirt — if an egg isn’t clean enough to pack, it doesn’t get packed. Our roll-away nesting box system allows us to collect clean eggs daily, which means we can keep that natural protective coating intact.

Some people care about that stuff. Some people don’t.

And that’s okay. ❤️

But hopefully everyone can care about the fact that we are local farmers, raising food for our community and building a family business that lets me work around our kids rather than having them in care all the time.

They get to grow up alongside the chickens, the eggs, the chaos, the mud and all the ridiculousness that comes with farm life.

And honestly?

We wouldn’t have it any other way. 🥰

So come support a local farmer this weekend, grab some half-price eggs, and help us make room for the next 300 dozen!

🥚 4 dozen per person max
🥚 Limited stock
🥚 Get there early
🥚 HALF PRICE

We know you’ll love them.

And we’re pretty sure you’ll be back. 😉

Now… somebody please buy these eggs because 600 chickens are not slowing down anytime soon. 😂🐔🥚