Like many life-changing decisions, the genesis was swift, but executing it took much longer. Nick Chambers and his wife, Carina, were returning from a wedding with Carina's aunt and uncle, Debbie and James Johnson, when it was decided that they should buy Glen Antrim, their farm near Newbridge in the NSW Central West.
“We were in the back of a taxi talking about how Debbie and James wanted to retire,” Carina recalls. “For Nick, buying Glen Antrim meant realising his dream of having his own farm, so the decision was obvious. Fortunately, they agreed to a long settlement because we'd just moved to Tamworth for Nick's work as head of grower services for GrainCorp, so it was four years until we could actually take over.”
Carina, who is an artist…
