URBAN FARM

In Youngtown, on the outskirts of Launceston in northern Tasmania, husband-and-wife team Doris Rosenkranz and Chris Beaver have created a large, productive organic garden called LillyPilly Farm.

It’s 2.2ha of organic paradise: fruit trees, raised vegetable beds, alpacas and five rescue dogs. Doris says this is just the beginning. She plans to enlarge the food garden and open a cat-boarding facility.

Six years ago, Doris and Chris were living busy lives in Brisbane. Tired of city pressures and with Doris’s mother and sister in Launceston, they decided to make the move south. Doris says she too had lived in the