The Homestead & Garden

As at any farm, all the work, rest and play at Ratho Farm revolves around the homestead.

The homestead has changed enormously since the Reids were first ransacked by bushrangers on the verandah, or since the John Glover painting of 1838. We are slowly restoring it to its former glory including the surrounding garden. Perhaps not quite so gushingly lovely as this description from the Tasmanian Presbyterian magazine…but one can only hope to make it so poetic WITHOUT the references to Englishness of course…Essex, I mean seriously!) Perhaps among our guests we can find some soft moving lips to sing that song…