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    A FRUITFUL LIFE

    Jun 24, 2020 4 minutes
    by TAMARA SIMONEAU

    Some of us just aren’t wired to live in suburbia, with fences for privacy and neighbours within earshot. It can work for a time, but the call of the country seems to always prevail. Wayne and Marie Stewart first bought their patch of rural paradise in 1980. In the lofty green hills of Peachester, overlooking Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, it was untamed bush — wild and rambling.

    Teachers by trade, with two boys in tow and dreams of a new home and flourishing orchard driving them forward, they began the mammoth task ahead of them.

    “We cleared some areas including a road in,” Wayne recalls. “Then we built a shed near where we lived in our caravan for 18 months while we built a house.”

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