With its vast green paddocks, grazing cattle and undulating hills dotted with towering trees, there is a tranquil, rural feel as you drive through the picturesque pocket of Ewingsdale, in New South Wales, just ten minutes from Byron Bay. For local Che (above), it has formed the backdrop to most of his life, ever since his parents Charly and Heather bought a small farmhouse on acreage in 1979, with coastal views and a gigantic fig tree, whose majestic proportions look straight out of a fairy story. “It’s where I grew up and watched my parents add to the original house to create a restaurant, which I eventually took over running in 2005,” Che explains, of the aptly named Fig Tree Restaurant. Not only is it where his parents were married,…
