Kelvin Ingram and his son Jamie farm in one of Victoria's most isolated areas.
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00:00The ancestors came here in 1850, in the mid-1850s, in search of gold.
00:04Just continued on as the gold ran out, they selected a bit more land and a bit more land.
00:10That was on Dad's mother's side, the Marriotts, and the Ingrams bought into the farm and
00:14yeah, the rest is pretty much history. We've been here ever since. I'm fifth generation,
00:18my grandkids are seventh. We love being here, living in Booneen Valley,
00:22farming and living the country lifestyle. My kids go to school in Bombala, they commute every day.
00:30Seventy k's to Bombala and one way. This creek river has never been noted to go dry. Permanent
00:36water, bird life here, good to see it getting back to its natural state. Probably the downside is
00:43the wombats tend to get in here once you give them cover and they're
00:48murraying and possibly going to cause problems, you know, if we get a flood.