Koramba Cotton Farm

Three day weekends are now the norm for the few remaining staff at Koramba Farm.
Shannon often takes the opportunity to go up to his 250 acre property at Emmaville.

One of Koramba’s signature sunsets After a wonderful three weeks in Brisbane it was back to the farm again.This time things would be very different!No Backpackers!No meals to prepare!No dishwashing!No bathrooms to clean!Since there was to be no one living at the camp for the foreseeable future we would be free to get up in the… Read More »Back to the Farm

The Koramba camp is eerily empty now The last of the residents left on Sunday 25th May. It’s so quiet here now but it hasn’t sunk in yet as there is still much to do. For the next 3 days, Chris and I cleaned, scrubbed, wrapped and packed away the entire kitchen and closed it… Read More »The farm has closed:

Cottton Picking is underway in a frenzy at Koramba Well, so much has been happening again at Koramba.The picking has finished.This time the rain held off after disrupting the early part of the harvest for nearly three weeks.Nineteen days after restarting again and the 2013 – 2014 cotton picking is finished!All that remains now is… Read More »Cotton Picking Time

So much has been happening out on the farm that we’ve let the blog fall behind. We apologise for this and will try not to let it happen again. So, where to begin… Planting: The planting was completed in September with 8000 acres sown this year.. This is down on last year’s crop of 13,000… Read More »Catching up with the Blog

Old saying, but true. We only have one dog at the camp now,  Mongrel. He was brought home from the pub by two of the back packer’s for Shannon after he lost Bing. Mongrel had been found on the road by a truckie and after two weeks at the pub and “Lost Dog” notices not… Read More »Dogs are a man’s best friend:

We have committed to stay on at Koramba Farm for another year. Why? Chris has a couple more programs to write and while he can do this in the van, it’s a lot easier to do it from his “Office” with the computer set up with double screens, a comfortable office chair and all the… Read More »We’re staying put for another year:

Well the cotton harvest is on again and the farm hands are working around the clock bringing in the multi million dollar crop. This year I went with one of the truck drivers to see how the cotton bales are transported to the gin. This process takes about 7 months with two drivers working 24/7. Here is a… Read More »Cotton Harvest in full swing again:

Men (and women) come and go at the Koramba Cotton Farm Quarters. Some are backpackers travelling around the world and working as they go. Some are just restless souls looking for the greener grass over the other side of the hill. We get to know these people who temporarily enter our lives only to say… Read More »A Changed Man