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    THE SEED SAVER

    Jun 12, 2017 4 minutes
    Words & photos Jana Holmer

    The township of Wallington, established 150 years ago on Victoria’s beautiful Bellarine Peninsula, is renowned for its annual strawberry festival and aquaticthemed Adventure Park.

    As for Ben Keon-Cohen, his latest adventure started five years ago when the former architect moved his family from nearby Geelong to a house he designed and built himself on a fiveacre block in Wallington. Ben had already been gardening for 25 years. Even in Geelong, he says, he always had an organic backyard garden with vegetables and fruit trees. He and his family looked to Wallington not just for its mild, sometimes

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