Old Fig Farm

About Us

Old Fig Farm is the realisation of a long held family dream to live in the country, farm regeneratively, incorporate lots of animals in positive ways and create amazing products.

We are located at Hannam Vale on the NSW Mid North Coast – approximately 3.5 hours drive north of Sydney. Hannam Vale lies within a valley formed by the the three Brother mountains – giving it a unique lush, vibrant climate.

Farming regeneratively means that we incorporate clever management of animals and biodiversity and avoid chemicals so that we build super healthy soils and encourage life, nourishing animals and humans, sequestering carbon from the atmosphere, and making the land we are custodians of stronger and more resilient.

What We Farm

Our Animals

We have beef cattle, managed holistically. They are a herd of Simbrah (Simmental/Brahman), Fleckvieh and Herefords, chosen because of their suitability to our climate and as a superb beef breed.

In addition to the cattle we have horses, chickens and roosters, guinea fowls, dogs and cats.

Limes

We have an established lime orchard of 65 trees. With the idyllic climate for Tahitian limes, these fruit year round. The orchard is managed organically with no nasty chemicals used. Where possible we fertilise and mulch with on farm materials to further reduce carbon footprint of production.

We sell fresh limes, sliced dried limes, lime salt, lime honey mustard dressing and lime and lemon myrtle cordial.

Did you know?

Tahitian limes turn a pale yellow or even look like a lemon when ripe. At this time they are lowest In acidity, highest in juice and sweetness.
Limes can be frozen for later use
Limes are high in vitamin C and antioxidants
The health benefits of lime are due to its many nutritious elements like vitamin C, vitamin B6, vitamin A, vitamin E, folate, niacin thiamin, riboflavin, pantothenic acid, copper, calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, zinc, phosphorus and protein. Lime also contains flavonoids, which are composites that contain antioxidant and cancer fighting properties. It helps prevent diabetes, constipation, high blood pressure, fever, indigestion, as well as improve the skin, hair, and teeth.

Accomodation

In addition to our 100 year old farm house, we have a renovated three bedroom cottage, the Dairy Bales, available to rent (Stayz & airbnb). The Dairy Bales is fully fenced off from stock, has a lovely rose garden and farm veggie garden, two queen bedrooms and one double bunk bedroom. The Dairy Bales has its own kitchen and bathroom. The Dairy Bales offers affordable and comfortable country accomodation with a real sense of history.

Why This Property?

Hannam Vale is a stunning dairy valley only 10-15 minutes off the A1, and perfectly positioned between Port Macquarie and Taree. Possibly accessing the best of everything with incredible beaches and lagoons only thirty minutes drive, easy access to Waitui falls and swimming hole, visit the historic Comboyne village and some of the stunning drives, Ellenborough falls, fabulous country towns like Wingham and Wauchope. Bring your Mountain Bikes for incredible access to state forest trails and nearby MTB parks. Gorgeous walks through town or into forest. Go surfing at numerous local beaches. In season visit the local Blueberry farm, or several local wineries.

The Dairy Bales are a very clean and comfortable three bedroom home with kitchen and bathroom. The Bales are far enough away from the main home to have peace and privacy. The bales have their own entrance, off street parking, and are fully fenced.

The Bales are located on farm, giving you the chance for a real farm experience and get away.

Extras

For a more immersive farm experience, book in a farm tour for $100 for an hour and learn about what we do at Old Fig Farm including making our popular Lime and Lemon Myrtle cordial, picking limes, visit our beef cattle, visit the chickens, visit our horses and perhaps have a chat about our Equicentral system, and learn a little more about holistic management and regenerative agriculture as you go.

Helen has run a successful photography business for over a decade. Perhaps make the most of this and have an on farm photo shoot for $250. The images will be professionally edited and emailed to you to keep.

Book in a breakfast hamper which includes:

Locally made sourdough
Old Fig Farm pastured eggs
Local organic Nitrate free heritage bacon
Locally made muesli
Home made lime marmalade
Local butter
Local jam
A bottle of our farm’s Lime and Lemon Myrtle cordial for you to keep

($80 caters approximately for a family of 5 for two breakfasts)

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News & Events

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2 months 2 weeks ago

🌳Discover Urban & Rural Permaculture Homesteading🌳

Whether you live in a a city, even in an apartment, or more rurally.. if you have an interest of curiosity in permaculture, growing food,

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2 months 2 weeks ago

We love the new colour of the old dairy farm stay accommodation. Even more than that we love now offering 💯 sustainable accomodation with the

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3 months 3 days ago

Happy happy days! This has been a long held dream to become as self sufficient energy wise. Today thanks to the patient help of Apex

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3 months 1 week ago

Quick wander outside yielded some more early limes, Some finger limes and a bunch of flower for the house #organiclimes #fingerlimes #farmlife #countrygarden #floweringgum #hannamvale

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4 months 3 weeks ago

The most very favourite paddock for the horses.. the old fig tree paddock. Girls wake up to horse cuddles #horses #oldfigfarm #barringtoncoast

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5 months 2 days ago

We never mind hitting peak hour traffic coming home from school #peakhourinhannamvale #stopforthecows #dairyfarm

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5 months 1 week ago

Public service announcement. When we had our recent open garden with approx 800 visitors, we think at least half asked what the name of this

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5 months 2 weeks ago

Permablitz at ours today, we started early by it still got muggy. No edibles today but we revamp and replant of three beds around the

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6 months 3 weeks ago

Today we had the first permablitz session in our local community. A small group of us with a similar approach to gardening/ farming/ growing food/

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6 months 3 weeks ago

My second tour of @limestone_permaculture and I think I learnt as much as the first time!!! As always the food made by @simply_homesteading was divine!!!