Mar 15, 2020 | Origin Stories
We’re alive to tell the story – a childhood at Princess River. Tasmanian Special Timbers’ staff member Vicki Knowles (nee Bradshaw) was interviewed for the Western Wilds’ Story Stop project. Vicki told us delightful and hair raising...
Feb 10, 2020 | About the Piners
It’s not just any bush, if you smell it again your memory goes back Tasmanian Special Timbers’ co-owner Randal Morrison was interviewed for the Western Wilds Story Stop project. He reminisced about his time as a child working on Huon Pine with his...
Jan 26, 2019 | Origin Stories
It’s many people’s vision of heaven – sipping a dram of malt whisky while toasting your feet by the fire. Tasmania is beautifully situated with the raw materials for fine whisky making: an abundance of pure, soft water; good quality barley; and large areas of peat...
Nov 6, 2018 | Origin Stories
Bill Gammage, in his brilliant book The Biggest Estate on Earth describes fire as ‘drought with legs’. He also explains how ‘eucalypts and fire formed an alliance, which people joined’.Australians living in almost the entire continent are familiar with fire as an...
