On a cloudy day in late May 2025, the Friends of Belgenny Farm held an open day attracting over 285 visitors interested in early Australian history. The event featured various stalls, historical displays, and guided tours of the historic site, which holds national significance and showcases Australia's earliest colonial farm buildings.
Tag: Farming Heritage
2025 Camden Show: A Photographic Journey
The photographic essay captures the vibrant atmosphere of the 2025 Camden Show, showcasing various activities, displays, and exhibitions. Highlights include the Woolworths produce pavilion, enthusiastic attendance from parents at performances, and contributions from local services like the Rural Fire Service, NSW Fire Brigade, and police, enriching the community experience.
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Explore Belgenny Farm: A Journey Through Time 2024
The 2024 Back to Belgenny festival showcased living history at Belgenny Farm, featuring reenactments, traditional trades, and various activities such as sheepdog trials and guided tours. The event included a demonstration by Governor Macquarie’s regiment and highlighted the farm's historical significance, providing visitors with an immersive glimpse into colonial agricultural life.
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Denbigh Open Days: Exploring Historic Colonial Farm
Denbigh, a significant colonial farming complex in Australia, recently opened its gardens to the public for a rare charity viewing. The property, with a dark history of conflict and anxiety, reveals layers of history from dispossession of Aboriginal lands to dairying and urban invasion. Denbigh's fortified structures reflect the fear and violence of the Cowpastures frontier.
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History of Camden Chinese Market Gardeners: Resilience, Innovation, and Struggles
The presentation at Camden Rotary Club details the significant contributions and challenges faced by Chinese market gardeners in Camden. It sheds light on their resilience, innovation, discrimination, and impact on the local economy. The book "A History of Camden Chinese Market Gardeners 1899-1993" emphasizes their agency, making an important contribution to local history and the literature of the Chinese diaspora in Australia.
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Bottled milk and hygienic dairies: agricultural modernism
Camden Vale Milk was produced by the dairies of Camden Park Estate. It was promoted as ‘Free from Tubercule, Typhoid and Diphtheria Bacilli’. Camden Vale promised that its milk was ‘rich, clean’ and ‘safe’ in an advertisement for the 1931 Health and Baby Welfare Week.
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The Llewella Davies Memorial Walkway, a walk in the meadows of the past
The Camden Town Farm Miss Llewella Davies Pioneers Walkway opened in 2020 in the former colonial landscape of the Cowpastures. The area was part of the original grants that made up the Macarthur family's Camden Park Estate and in pre-European times the country of the Dharawal people.
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Richlands, an outpost of a colonial farming empire
The Richlands estate, north of Goulburn in the NSW Southern Tablelands, was an important part of the Macarthur family pastoral empire for nearly 100 years. Â The Richlands estate acted as an outstation about one days ride west of Camden Park estate.
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John Hawdon of Elderslie in a settler society
John Hawdon of Elderslie was part of the story of settler colonialism in New South Wales in the early 19th century.
