A Refined Farmhouse Tucked Into an Australian Valley
Stick around Acheron, Victoria long enough, and you’re bound to run into one or two members of the Leckey family soaking up the sprawling vistas of the tiny Australian town they call “home.” On most days, dad Will runs sheep and cattle across the family’s land while 14-year-old Hugh farms. Just as busy, 16-year-old Eliza oftentimes […]
Stick around Acheron, Victoria long enough, and you’re bound to run into one or two members of the Leckey family soaking up the sprawling vistas of the tiny Australian town they call “home.” On most days, dad Will runs sheep and cattle across the family’s land while 14-year-old Hugh farms. Just as busy, 16-year-old Eliza oftentimes rides horses around the lake, and when she isn’t heading up her companies Heatherly Design and Two Rivers Green Tea, mom Georgie tends her family’s garden. It’s a bucolic life for this brood and one they’ve come to cherish for its simplicity and charm. When the day is done, the foursome all reconvene back at their farmhouse, a retreat they’ve lived in for 20 years but that’s been in Will’s family for over 40. All the celebrations, holidays and the occasional heartbreaks it has played host to over the years have soaked into the land it sits on and given the space that indefinable coziness that only comes with time. It truly feels more like a nest than a home; a place so familiar and dear to the Leckeys it’s becom...
Stick around Acheron, Victoria long enough, and you’re bound to run into one or two members of the Leckey family soaking up the sprawling vistas of the tiny Australian town they call “home.” On most days, dad Will runs sheep and cattle across the family’s land while 14-year-old Hugh farms. Just as busy, 16-year-old Eliza oftentimes rides horses around the lake, and when she isn’t heading up her companies Heatherly Design and Two Rivers Green Tea, mom Georgie tends her family’s garden. It’s a bucolic life for this brood and one they’ve come to cherish for its simplicity and charm. When the day is done, the foursome all reconvene back at their farmhouse, a retreat they’ve lived in for 20 years but that’s been in Will’s family for over 40. All the celebrations, holidays and the occasional heartbreaks it has played host to over the years have soaked into the land it sits on and given the space that indefinable coziness that only comes with time. It truly feels more like a nest than a home; a place so familiar and dear to the Leckeys it’s becom...
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