A Taste of Paradise is a farm project located in a beautiful secluded valley near Berry, on the southeast coast of Australia, approximately one hour’s drive south of Wollongong. Tim and Andrea Francis, local couple, established the farm in 1999 as a mentoring and work experience project centred on catering for teenagers between 13 and 20 years of age. Since then the project has become a deductable
gift recipient charity. The farm is run as a mixed organic farm comprising a fruit and nut tree orchard, a range of livestock (beef cattle, goats, horses, free range chickens, turkeys and alpacas), a conservation area, and the beginnings of a timber plantation. The project exists on a not-for-profit basis, without direct government funding, providing programmes that cater for each young person’s needs, short or long term. A Taste of Paradise Organic Farm Ltd works with a number of organisations given the responsibility of caring for young people.
