In the news
From national magazines to ABC radio, here's where our farm and the Fingal Post Office have popped up. Featured story first, then newest first.
As seen in ABC, Australian Women's Weekly, Country Style, Tasmanian Country, The Examiner
Tasmanian Country
The best read about the farm itself: our Tower Hill block, the heritage pork, beef, goat and lamb, the smoked bacon and kranskies, the tree planting, and how the post office became our shopfront in town.
“If we can keep operating the Post Office, sell our meat and convince people to stop in the town it's a win/win for everyone.”
Tasmanian Country
A general explainer on carbon farming in Tasmania, using our Tower Hill block as the example. Permagen leases land from us and has planted a mixed native tree project that stock can graze again once the trees are up.
“The company has leased land from pig producer Primal Pastures and planted more than 80,000 trees across the 200ha site.”
(Our count is now about 80,000 trees and shrubs in the carbon project, and we're planting about 20,000 more for the bees and fodder that aren't part of it.)
Country Style
Country Style reprinted the Women's Weekly feature on Fingal and its 1832 post office: a small town pulling together, and our family stepping in to take the post office on and keep it open. It's free to read with a Libraries Tasmania card.
“When the residents of a Tassie town discovered they might lose their post office, they pulled out all the stops to save it.”
The Australian Women's Weekly
A national feature on Fingal, its 1832 post office and the community who rallied around it, told through Hamish Thompson and Roxy Cowie. William and Maria are pictured out front as the family who saved it by taking it on.
“like its heart or its lungs”
ABC Radio, The World Today
The town's support meant a lot. Our family saved the post office, taking over as licensee in September 2025.
A national radio story about how our family saved Fingal's post office, with Hamish Thompson, Maria and William all on air.
“It's allowed everyone in the community to, quite literally, stamp their mark on the town.”
ABC News
Maria and William start serving customers after their Australia Post training. It covers the plans for local farm produce, a bakery, a B&B out the back and a food van, while William keeps the farm running.
“First and foremost is keeping the postal service running.”
The Examiner
Why we took on the PO: the farm is off-grid and can't run cool rooms, so freezers in town make sense. It also covers our B&B, micro-bakery and precooked meal ideas, and our training with Kings Meadows postal manager Ian Robertson.
“We are very optimistic but daunted as well. It's a big commitment for the whole family.”
ABC Radio Hobart, Tasmania Mornings
Hamish Thompson from the STAMP campaign tells listeners the town's historic post office has been saved by a local pig farming family, who'll also sell their produce there.
“Some local pig farming family who live up on Tower Hill are now going to be opening it”
Pulse Tasmania
The first story to break the news that our family from Tower Hill would take over the PO, with Australia Post saying we'd stock farm-to-table products.
“We'd hit a few snags and the post office looked like it was going to get the chop. They've really saved our bacon.”
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