The property sits slightly elevated within an idyllic rural 5 hectare setting in Hope, just outside Richmond. It is overlooking the Waimea Plains with its orchards, wineries and market gardens.
The property includes paddocks where we graze some sheep and cows, a small home orchard with a variety of fruit trees and home to our free range chickens, a gully and wetland area with native bush and bird life, a big pond loved by our ducks and geese, and of course the pear orchard with its Taylors Gold and Beurre Bosc varieties.
A cluster of buildings forms the heart of the property: the old farmhouse built in 1910 where Timo and Olivia live with their children, various barns, outbuildings, the lodge and the cottage.