As a five generational prime lamb and cereal growing farm this new enterprise needed to stand up to the on going drought prone country.
Their first move was to plant a variety of trees to see how they would survive. It was successful. Consequently in 1999 fifty Kalamata and twenty Barnea trees were planted with an irrigation system.
Peter and Julie heeded the recommendations of a feasibility study completed in the 1990s with the shires of Bendigo, Gannawarra and Loddon. This study compared the growing conditions of olive trees in Central Victoria with Toledo in Spain.
We now have perfected our olive pickling, oils, olive products and various preserves, a range that we sell at markets, our local information centres and at our farm gate outlet here in Goornong.
Bridgeward Grove is a story of rural Australia, a long standing farming family combined with a long standing theatrical and arts family and what this truly means. Bridgeward Grove is a destination, which has been created by its custodians Peter and Julie Howard, who have lived on the property for the past 35 years.
During that time they have made their livelihood from its bounty, raised a family and developed the property into the oasis of produce and creative activity that it is today, and they want to share it with the rest of the world.
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