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Business Name: Australia-book
Contact: Fay Helwig
Location: GLEN APLIN, QLD
Phone: 07-4683 4227
Mobile: 0439390863
Asking Price: N/A
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Wildflowers, wilderness and wine is a book, but it is more than just a description of an idyllic tourism destination. When reading Fay’s words you will experience the horror of the devastating fire that roared across these wilderness hills, taking a life, destroying homes and scorching vineyards. It is about the droughts, storms and floods, the frost and snow, the festivals and conferences throughout a year in a district known for a remarkably turbulent climate.
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Eberhard and Fay are shown at the Felsberg Winery overlooking the Glen Aplin valley. Das Helwig Haus is situated across the valley in the forest of trees immediately over Eberhard's shoulder. Read more in Wildflowers, wilderness and wine. |
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It was this field of red Flanders poppies first planted in 1996 which brought Australia wide fame to Das Helwig Haus as the site of the Remembrance Field. Read how and why this field was established in Wildflowers, wilderness and wine. |
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Brian Sams from WIN TV interviewing Fay in November 2009 concerning her garden and field of Flanders poppies. Every year Fay is interviewed by TV and radio personalities and is an accomplished guest speaker. |
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The Severn River flows south through the Glen Aplin valley and eventually this water reaches the sea in South Australia via the mighty Murray/Darling river system. It was this river frontage on the Das Helwig Haus property which has provided the water for the establishment of Fay's gardens and the Remembrance Field of red Flanders poppies. |
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Eberhard and Fay also constructed dams on a secondary gully on their farm and stocked it with Golden perch. This dam is frequented daily by wild water birds and Fay's geese. Read more in Wildflowers, wilderness and wine. |
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Whatever the season the garden at Das Helwig Haus is a pleasure to visitors. In her book Wildflowers, wilderness and wine Fay details the plants in her garden and their growing requirements. |
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Fay in the rose garden at Das Helwig Haus. Each year since 1997 Fay has opened her garden to visitors to raise money for Brisbane Legacy. Fay's close association with the RSL and Brisbane Legacy lead to the Minister for Veterans' Affairs launching Poppies for Remembrance and sending poppy seed to every school in Australia. |
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Fay has a Jack Russell female dog called Trixie seen here on lucerne (alfalfa) hay which is used each year as a natural organic mulch on the garden at Das Helwig Haus, the setting of Wildflowers, wilderness and wine. |
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Fays is assisted in her garden by Willing Workers on Organic Farms. Here a Korean girl is working as a WWOOFer to spread the hay as mulch in the garden at Das Helwig Haus. New workers from around the world are featured monthly in Wildflowers, wilderness and wine. |
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Fay grows all the vegetables for Das Helwig Haus in her productive garden and shares many of her garden to table recipes with the readers of Wildflowers, wilderness and wine. |
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Cherries growing in the garden at Das Helwig Haus. It was Fay's recognition that the Glen Aplin district possessed red cherries, red strawberries, red wines and the Remembrance Field of red Flanders poppies which lead her to create the Red November promotion which brings tourists to the region every year in November. See the story in Wildflowers, wilderness and wine. |
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Wildflowers, wilderness and wine also tells the tale of how a bushfire roared through the eucalyptus forests of the Granite Belt, destroying homes and taking a life. There is drama as Fay recounts how such a fire threatened threatened Das Helwig Haus during a drought. |
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