BLOOMING LOVELY
Magic Meadow, Lovely Banks: it all sounds a bit Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm but there’s no trace of Shirley Temple in Deb Parsons’ busy five-acre (twohectare) market garden in the northwest Geelong suburb of Lovely Banks.
Once mainly farmland, Lovely Banks is fast becoming a residential area thanks to its handy position close to the Princes Highway and overlooking Geelong. But the Parsons’ farm, Magic Meadow, run along organic and sustainable lines, has little to do with the encroaching suburbanisation.
Besides managing the property and its vegetable gardens, Deb mentors the
