Slow Acres Blog

In an increasingly hyper-connected world, so many of us feel profoundly isolated. We carry a persistent exhaustion—tethered to screens, navigating personal transitions, feeling burnout even, or simply feeling disconnected from our bodies and the natural world. After leaving a long corporate career behind for this very reason, I forged a path aligned with what deeply matters: tending to the land, being in nature, and holding space for community. I recognise the immense privile

Life at the Boonah farm slows down, and after spending a large portion of my life in inner-city Melbourne, the change is dramatic. Perhaps it is the down-regulation of the nervous system you notice first, but it is also the environment, which is mostly wild, that has its own pace and presence, and somehow we become attuned. In the city, my ecotherapy practice was about actively rewilding a small space, clearing away the manicured grass to invite the wild back in. But here at