After five years living in New York, Hamish and Mez Keith have returned to Australia determined to give Bathurst its rightful place on the NSW tourism map.
Hamish Keith was just 12 years old when he stood in the cattle yards on his parents’ property, Wilga Station, looking out across the Bathurst Plains and declared he would one day build a house there. It took a few decades, but he and his wife, Mez, have finally achieved that ambition with an off-grid couple’s retreat called the Farmer’s Hut, which they built using mainly recycled materials in 2020, during their journey of…