Nature Play WA is a collaborative organisation working with partner groups like us to encourage the WA community to value nature play and families to prioritise it in children’s lives.  Nature play is, of itself, an intrinsic good and from it flow benefits in...

Summertime at Karridale Cottages and Hop Farm is spent outdoors enjoying the beautiful weather, peaceful bush lands, gorgeous beaches and the serenity of the Blackwood River. Whilst guests are busy exploring the surrounds we at Karridale Hop Farm are busy work...

Winter at Karridale Cottages and Hop Farm is a beautiful time for year to cuddle up with a glass of red wine or dark ale from the region and enjoy the warmth of the fire. It's a bit quieter in the region over winter so you can enjoy the peacefulness the winter...

Its amazing how quickly 12 months can go by, especially when it's the first year of a new business venture.

We're taking this opportunity to reflect on what we have accomplished but more importantly to plan for 2016. Here are a few things that happened in the l...

Happy New Year!

With the longer days and warmer conditions of the new year comes exponential growth in the hop yard!

Our young hop bines are progressing well up their trellising with some varieties already setting flowers and cones. We continue to hand weed and...

Big news from Karridale Cottages and Hop Farm!

We are pleased to announce that we are now powered by the sun! That's right, we've added a five-kilowatt solar panel system to our hopyard infrastructure. The system will be responsible for powering all the irriga...

Spring means more time outside enjoying the beautiful weather.  As the days get longer we begin to dream of warm lazy summer days at the beach with sand between our toes.

Fuggles (our chocolate Labrador) loves summer too with the beach at the top of his list....

Spring is one of our favourite times of year as nature comes out of hibernation and plants begin to germinate and emerge with fresh green shoots.

As a new hop yard, we are waiting anxiously for our first new shoots to come out of the ground to nuture and supp...

We recently planted over 300 native seedlings in support of National Tree Planting Day.  The planting is part of our revegetation program to improve the local biodiversity of our bush property.

We planted a range of native plants including banks...

We're so excited to announce our first rhizomes have been planted in our hop farm, ready to start their climb this spring.  

We've planted a variety of rhizomes sourced from different growers throughout the southwest. Some stand out varieties that we love to...