Our Story: Seasonal Produce from Our Family Farm

For a long time, we had what most people would call a successful life. Global. Fast-moving. Different cities, different countries, different experiences, and we made the most of every one of them together.

I'm Kirrilly, and after decades of that pace, Nathan and I made a deliberate choice: to bring everything we'd learned and everywhere we'd been back to something closer to home.

It wasn't a decision either of us made lightly, or alone. We chose it together, swapping the familiar for the unknown to build something new.

We came home to the land. To something we'd both quietly wanted for a long time, and to a different way of living.

My father's family grew up in Narooma, right here on the South Coast. My Grandpa owned a local bakery — fresh bread, every day, serving the community he called home. I never got to meet him, but his story was always part of ours.

Growing up, my Dad was the veggie grower and I was just the occasional helper and full-time taste tester. Fresh food wasn't a lifestyle trend — it was just Tuesday. Seasonal produce from the garden, food you could trace back to the hands that grew it - a connection to where things came from that felt completely normal.

I didn't realise how rare that was until I spent years without it.

Starting Nearly Far isn't reinvention for the sake of a story. It's reconnection. To the values I grew up with, to the rhythm of seasons and soil, to the kind of work that leaves you tired in a way that feels honest.

There's a peace here, a quiet that isn't empty. The cattle in the paddock. The veggies coming up. The family around us. The south coast life.

We feel like we were always supposed to be here. Home. We just took a few detours along the way.

Nearly Far is a family operation with a simple ambition — raise happy, well-cared-for livestock, grow quality fruit, vegetables and herbs, and sell to the community around us. 

No shortcuts and no compromises on the things we believe in.

We're not a big operation. We're not trying to be. We're trying to do a small thing really, really well — and sell it to people who care as much as we do.

 This isn't a lifestyle project. It's a livelihood. And we treat it that way every single day.

— The Nearly Far Family