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Harvest Highway Western Australia

Locality: Donnybrook, Western Australia

Phone: +61 8 9731 7006

Address: South Western Highway 6239 Donnybrook, WA, Australia

Website: http://www.harvesthighway.com.au

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24.01.2022 FOOD ALL DAY...We are open all weekend 14th and 15th November serving food, drinks and good times from 11am until late both days with live music too. Please no...te that we are still operating under Covid restrictions and do have limitations on numbers. #shamrockhotelgreenbushes #beautifulbridgetown #downsouth #southwestisbest #greenbushes See more

24.01.2022 A great new attraction along the Harvest Highway .

24.01.2022 Dan Baker - With an emphasis on strong lyrical foundations, North Queensland’s Dan Baker weaves intricate finger style folk harmonies around thoughtful and powe...rfully delivered melodies. Dynamic manipulation and vivid imagery persuade audiences to follow the singer through difficult subjects, while honest vocal tones maintain reassurance of safe passage. The release of his debut album in 2019 has earned Dan a place as a finalist in the 2020 QMusic Billy Thorpe Scholarship and the Australian Roots Music Award for Best Song. See more

23.01.2022 A desperate WA town has turned itself into a 'worker's paradise' to fill thousands of jobs. The people of Manjimup took their fight to the streets today. JOBS: [email protected]

22.01.2022 Preston Valley Artisan Trail , near Donnybrook is on 7 & 8 November 2020, check out their website for details.

21.01.2022 166 LAKESIDE GARDEN RETREAT Lakeside is a large garden of about 4.3 acres on a six acre block. They have a large variety of native and exotic plants and shrubs as well as many deciduous trees.

21.01.2022 PUSH TO HURRY SEASONAL WORKERS The State Government is under growing pressure to finalise a deal with the Northern Territory, to allow foreign workers into WA t...o pick fruit and vegetables. VegetablesWA says unless an agreement is finalised within days, the first planeload of workers from Vanuatu will need to be delayed or cancelled.

20.01.2022 It's perfect weather for wildflower hunting today! Have you spotted any blooms recently? Show us your best photos below... These stunning blooms were all spo...tted in the Moore river region this week by Moore Catchment Council's community Landcare officer Rachel Walmsley. Lechenaultia linarioides, Lechenaultia biloba, Podolepis lessonii, Calytrix leschenaultii, Grevillea eriostachya, Petrophile linearis, Podotheca gnaphalioides.

20.01.2022 What have you been up to, Mooriel? A mooey makeover. She’s feeling like a mooollion dollars. #waroonacow #waroonavisitorcentre #visitwaroona Happy Easter ever...yone ... stay safe! ABC South West

20.01.2022 Totem Bohemia is Bridgetown's newest retail shop which is already turning heads. Come and find out what all the fuss is about. www.bridgetowndiscovery.com.au

18.01.2022 I noticed Rochelle Bell just joined us at Perth Reflects, owner of one of my favourite shops, Ooh La Lollipop - Bridgetown.

18.01.2022 Have you seen any beautiful wildflowers?

17.01.2022 Check out Heather's photos of our beautiful wildflowers and all in town at Drakesbrook Public Cemetery. A visit is such a great way to enjoy nature and to hono...ur the past. Just a hop, skip and a jump away from some gorgeous places to visit including our wonderful winery, beautiful weir and dam, and some fabulous cafes. Come visit!

16.01.2022 How spectacular is this?! It's not a photo - it's a painting of the Blackwood River, near Bridgetown in the South West, by talented local artist Rod Cameron.... What in WA should he paint next? Rod Cameron

15.01.2022 The Bridgetown Garden Spring Fair will be on this Sunday the 8th of November. It coincides with the Spring Festival of Country Gardens which will be going ahead this year on the 5,6,7 & 8th November 2020. To book a stand please ring 97611816.

15.01.2022 The Autumn Festival - Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th April 2021 11 glorious gardens open from 9.30am to 4pm. Tickets are now available online through the link o...n our pinned facebook post (or below). $50 for a weekend pass with access to all gardens or $8 per person per garden payable at each garden gate. https://www.trybooking.com/BPTXJ #festivalofcountrygardens #autumnfestival #autumn #waisok #southwestwa

15.01.2022 Cockatoo Crest - A thoughtfully designed and diverse garden which has something for everyone. Under a mature, majestic Cork tree you will find a secret garden ...filled with ferns, hydrangeas, bromeliads, a Japanese maple and giant stag horn shaped into ‘a giant disco ball’ which hangs from it’s branches. There is also an extensive range of native trees and shrubs; a separate ‘protea lane’; a rose garden; 30 year old catci collection in a range of earthenware pots and a greenhouse filled with orchids and bonsai trees. You will also delight in the garden art that is sprinkled through out the property and hear the magical warble of magpies, the tittering of blue wrens and the cry of red tail cockatoos who also occupy this 10 acre property. #festivalofcountrygardens #autumnfestival #autumn #waisok #southwestwa

14.01.2022 Let's count the many colours our community garden displays in early spring! How about you swing past on your next walk around town? Yesterday morning our volunteers spread mulch, weeded and made sure the reticulation is ready for hotter days that will arrive all too soon.

14.01.2022 MANJIMUP: Get registered for the upcoming avocado picking season in Manjimup. Starting in November. 38hour week paying an hourly rate of $24.36 per hour plus ...super. Local hostel can provide transport to the farm. Don't forget the govt will be providing an accommodation rebate for those that need to travel to assist with this work. If you would like to pre-register please send your resume to [email protected] and let us know that is what you are registering for. Please keep an eye in your junk mail as our first point of contact will be via email.

14.01.2022 Walk on the Wildside Wildflower Walk Saturday 10th October 11.30am $20 Lunch and Bus Please book you spot at the Visitors Centre 97651444

13.01.2022 WATCH OUT FOR WILDFLOWERS Have you spotted all the beautiful wildflowers blooming across the South West? While they're very pretty, we're being reminded to s...pot them from a distance. The Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions' (DBCA) and the City of Bunbury is urging people to not pick flowers and to stick to the designated paths or trails when walking through reserves such as Manea Park. DBCA said some flowers are still emerging and people who stray from the path could accidentally crush the flowers before they have a chance to bloom. Have you spotted any wildflowers? Share your pics Orange Stars: (Hibbertia stellaris), via Parks and Wildlife Service, Western Australia Pixie Mops: (Petrophile linearis), via City of Bunbury Holly-leaved Banksia (Banksia ilicifolia) via City of Bunbury Skinner’s pea (Pultenaea skinneri) via City of Bunbury

11.01.2022 Tomorrow we will open our garden as Festival begins ... 4 days from 5th to 8th November ,entry $ 8 /person for each garden at gate or book ticket online $80 for... all garden festivalofcountrygardens.com . Before the day ,we just review some beautiful memories in the first open .Photos by Shannon Fraser- Butler . Welcome all ! See you soon ! See more

11.01.2022 SOME DELIGHTFUL THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT MAY GIBBS Did you know that May Gibbs formative years were spent in Western Australia? As a young girl May lived o...n Harvey River Station (near Bunbury) in an old convict-built homestead. Here she had "exciting encounters" with the snakes that infested the cool river banks, flowers, strange birds, insects and wildlife. She also owned a "little fat red pony" and spent days "camping and tramping" out in the hills with her brother Bertie. He would "shoot, pluck and roast the lunch", while May would set about the "more serious business of gathering flowers and information about the affairs of the bush." The family then moved by coach (and four horses) to South Perth by the Swan River. The Gibb's home 'The Dune' was on the corner of Harper Terrace and Suburban Road (now Mill Point Road). May won her first Art prize at the Perth Wild Flower Show at just aged 15. According to the newspaper at the time it was "a charming and artistic reproduction of flowers of a corn-flower blue colour" and purchased by His Excellency the Governor. When May "grew up a little" she returned to her birthplace England, to study art and the "intricacies of the pen". While she loved London, every time she returned to Australia, she realised what a "fantastic, richly original, delightfully reckless" place it was. Australia was in her blood - "If you scratch me, a strong scent of eucalyptus will fill the air." (Cecilia May Gibbs 1877 - 1969) May eventually "eloped" to Sydney aged 36, where she was quickly adopted as a "Sydney Artist". It was here that she created the Gum Nut Babies - so delicate, so exquisite, so original and uniquely Australian - inspired by the Blue Mountains and her childhood years in the bush. May lived in Neutral Bay with her "Irish husband, a pianola, a gramophone and two little black Scotch dogs". Her cottage had a "bright blue front door, shutters and windows full of Sydney Harbour". May loves included "blue and white china, Charlie Chaplin, music, sweet peas, animals, water and cottage furniture. Heysen's, Vermeer's and babies. Her few hates were "cages, oysters, Oxford pants, opera, 'going out', spelling and darning". Although she had no children of her own, May was of the opinion that Australia children were like no other in the world. "A distinct type, possessed of great ingenuity, brighter, more intelligent, independent and able to speak and think for themselves." The State Library of WA is delighted to invite you, your family and friends to the May Gibbs' Gumnut Babies Exhibition. Now on until 1 November. The exhibition is presented at the State Library of Western Australia in partnership with the 2020 AWESOME Festival and the West Australian Ballet. FREE ENTRY. State Library Ground Floor and Story Place Galleries. Image from the May Gibbs Archive, State Library of NSW Northcott Society and Cerebral Palsy Alliance, 2020 ABC Perth The West Australian PERTH and W.A from 1950 to 2000 May Gibbs Awesome Arts Perth School Holidays Perth Cultural Centre Perth, Western Australia Snugglepot & Cuddlepie Perth Cultural Centre WA Museum Boola Bardip Art Gallery of Western Australia South Perth Historical Society Harvey Visitor Centre PerthNow Better Beginnings The Story Place

11.01.2022 A great attraction along the highway.

08.01.2022 Beautiful gifts at Wag Walters Emporium, Ford House, Bridgetown. http://fordhouse.com.au

07.01.2022 Travel around WA. Keep our tourism businesses alive.

06.01.2022 A lovely activity when you need a little quiet time $28.00.

06.01.2022 The new Bunbury Garden Labyrinth has its official opening today. If you get the opportunity, do take a wander through the beautiful Queens Gardens and along the... Inlet. It's looking lovely at the moment! The Bunbury Markets are also on there today! Here is an aerial shot of the new labyrinth taken by John Bowie at Skylens Australia. Quite spectacular! This area has featured throughout our history as a gathering place. It's nice to see it coming alive again in such a community focused way! For indepth information please see: https://www.facebook.com/BunburyPlaceForHope/ https://www.facebook.com/SkyLensAustralia/

05.01.2022 BREAKING NEWS Finally the new northern entry statement to Brunswick Junction is going up! Harvey artist Anthea Ward will be working hard over the next few days ...installing her latest masterpiece with some assistance from her offsider/husband Justin. Each flower petal was hand made and decorated by local school students. The backing panels are all in place and after gluing each flower petal in place and finishing the joins the entire work will need to be grouted. I can't wait to see the finished result! Brunswick Junction is 2 hours south of Perth, WA on the South West Hwy. To see more of the amazing Harvey Shire mosaics, why not follow the Harvey Mosaic and Mural Trail. Click the link for details https://www.facebook.com/JusttheSoundoftheBreeze/posts/177975410555890 Harvey-Waroona Reporter Harvey Visitor Centre Visit Bunbury Geographe

05.01.2022 Happy 11th Birthday Greenbushes Community Garden Thanks for your company today and enjoy the sunny day everyone And thanks Barry for the tomato seedlings, we're looking forward to sharing them at our crop swaps. Fresh summer salads here we come!

05.01.2022 EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT! * A wildflower-seed production business in the Great Southern is enjoying surging demand, as more people turn to gardening du...ring the COVID-19 pandemic. * A young Denmark girl with a passion for pasta will be on our TV screens next week as a contestant in the new season of Junior MasterChef Australia. * And a big spread of social pictures from end-of-school celebrations for the Year 12s from ASHS and NASHS.

04.01.2022 Calling all South West collectors... can we top this enormous Hot Wheels collection? Brisbane's Kane Gibson sent in these photos of his epic display. He's ...been collecting toy cars for 23 years, and now has 50,000 carefully stored in his rumpus room and garage. "I get people coming to see my display room from all around the world." He reckons he might have Australia's largest collection of Hot Wheels. Are you a collector?

04.01.2022 Ford House at Bridgetown. What a beautiful morning, wandering around the grounds at Ford House, Bridgetown. This is a bed and breakfast with a whole lot more, ...set just near the bridge on the Blackwood River. The old home here was built in 1896. When you arrive at the property, you walk through the loveliest collection of goods to purchase. There is also a large function room that was once the old barn, now so rustic and inviting. The environment is just charming. All around you are treats and gifts to purchase. Owner Jenny and staff serve refreshments here. You can book accomodation in the old home, with rooms such as the Grand Ballroom, which was locked up for around 20 years, now open for guests to stay. With the sun shining through the trees, making for the most relaxing location, I had to take some photos. In this bush setting, you could easily imagine yourself back in time staying in one of these rooms. Ford House was once accomodation for Railway workers in the early 1900's. John Blechynden originally purchased this land in 1857. He built a gentlemans one room hut in 1860 using bricks made from clay on the river . John married Elizabeth Green in the same year and they moved into the hut. On August 26, 1896, Lucille Jane Walter (nee Thompson of Brookhampton) and William Ardagh Gardner (WAG) Walter bought half the land (5acres) for 200, from John William Blechynden. WAG Walter and his wife came from Kalgoorlie. (WAG was born in 1860 in Galmington, Taunton, Somerset, to Octavius Ardagh Gardiner Walter, one of the owners of the London Times. WAG became the first Mining Warden for Murchison, in Kalgoorlie & Cue, having previous experience in England. He remained in Kalgoorlie for 5 years, mostly living in a tent, and was very concerned about the lawlessness in the town due to the inbalance of males to females. When he put up posters in Kalgoorlie threatening to publicly castrate rapists, he was politely asked to move on. Having a brother already in Bridgetown, WAG Walter moved here as the Mining Registrar and Magistrate during the tin boom in Greenbushes in 1898.The Walters built Ford House in 1896, named after his fathers house, Ford House in Wellington, Somerset, England, near Taunton. WAG used his father’s house plans. Ford House was awarded the best B&B in WA in July 2001. It also won the Hospitality Industry and Best S.W Small Business less than 5 Employees Awards in April 2002 and runners up for Best B&B in WA in 2002, and it's easy to see why. While here, you will meet up with the geese of Ford House. These geese wander freely around the grounds. They awoke and toddled down to the cool shade of the trees near the river, crunching on the fresh chestnuts that fall from the trees this time of year. Thank you for the hospitality and friendly greetings here at Ford House. We will definitely be back for a stay! (Quoted sections of this history of Ford House come courtesy of their website. You can view the comprehensive history here:) http://fordhouse.com.au/about-us/history-of-ford-house/ (Please see the website for booking.) For information on how to book and opening times please see also their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/fordhousewagwalters/

03.01.2022 Happy #Wrensday everyone! Last week we asked if you'd seen any of these blue beauties out and about this spring and you delivered in spades! Here's a selection of the best wren shots, we've seen this week. If you've got one to add then show us below...

02.01.2022 You can stay at this amazing bed and breakfast. Ring 97611816 to book direct and explore this stunning 5 acre garden this Spring.

01.01.2022 These stunning red-winged fairywrens were photographed in Albany, WA #WRENSDAY : birding_by_tania

01.01.2022 The Harvest Highway is a very special road route which meanders through the towns at the heart of Western Australia's famous food bowl, from Armadale, south of Perth, to Walpole in the Great Southern region. Based on the route of the South West Highway and a number of byways along the way, The Harvest Highway and its website http://www.touristradio.com.au/harvesthighway/ promotes the produce and attractions of these regions, including orchard, vegetable, winery and dairy growing areas, must-see visitor destinations, events and incredible places to dine and stay. A route map can be found at: http://www.touristradio.com.au/harvesthighway/ showing all the towns and by clicking on each town, you can read everything about what to see and do.

01.01.2022 Leesa Sutherland took a drive out to Wellington Dam this afternoon to see the beginning of the biggest dam mural in the world. The mural is being created by Queensland artist Guido van Helten and will tell the stories of local people and their connection to the Collie area. I believe it will take about one month to complete.