Backyard and Outdoor Living

It’s all about the TROUT

It looks like an ordinary suburban house on a busy street just 7km north-west of Melbourne’s CBD. But behind the low brick fence and newly planted citrus are not only thriving vegetable gardens and more fruit trees, but also a fish farm teeming with around 150 trout.

Robert Kershaw’s block is only 400sqm, but just about all of it not occupied by the house is given over to food production.

Besides the fish

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