by Rosemary | Aug 16, 2022
Adam and I (plus Rowan and Hamish) had a ‘ripping’ time at Mudgee last month. Considering they had had 100ml of rain that week, they did an awesome job of organising the event. Set up day was a bit boggy but nothing we couldn’t handle. The 2 days...
by Rosemary | May 3, 2022
Well, after Mudgee Small Farm Field Days have had to cancel for the last 2 years due to Covid, it’s finally going ahead this year. We will be there with our small curved tyne rippers and hope you will visit us at the Williamson-Agri site. Adam had an amazing...
by Rosemary | Jan 18, 2022
It was my husband’s dream to build BIG rippers. He did like to think big! However being a very small family business it was very hard (read impossible) to compete against the BIG guys. Since his death 3 years ago, our eldest son, Adam has taken over the...
by Rosemary | Mar 23, 2021
What a country we live in! Fires, drought, floods; Dorothea McKellar certainly got it right in her iconic poem ‘My Country’. So the rain is falling and doesn’t look like stopping anytime soon. While I am so grateful for the water teeming down and...
by Rosemary | Aug 7, 2020
When we moved to Australia from UK in 1980, we knew we wanted to settle in the Forbes area of Central West NSW. We lived in a caravan for a few weeks before finding a house to rent about 12km out of town. Frank worked for a local spray operator so I was left at home,...
by Rosemary | Mar 29, 2020
Both of my grandparents worked hard on the farm, looking after the animals and growing vegetables on their land. Grandma had grown up on a farm. She loved to tell stories about her childhood, and it was clear that she had learned basically everything there’s to...