Seven generations of the Medwin family have farmed at Black River in Tasmania’s north-west. Phil and Fiona Medwin are ensuring the tradition continues by adding flowers to the farm’s portfolio.
Motor mechanics and the mining industry may sound like unlikely training grounds for flower farmers, but that is precisely the skill set Phil and Fiona Medwin brought to their Tasmanian family farm.
Granted Phil had grown up on their Tasmanian family farm, where his parents, Rodney and Christine, had farmed for most of their lives before retiring to the historic seaside village of…