The vendor of Joewen Park retired in 2000, after 50 years of involvement in market gardening and horticulture, and purchased this productive rural holding.
Today the property stands out as one of the best small farm holdings in the Kilmore area with about 800 metres of frontage to the main road, in fact the old Hume Highway alignment.
Since they purchased the holding they have undertaken major building works. The first is the substantial brick family home with four bedrooms, an office, rumpus room, with an open plan design and a country style kitchen.
The second building campaign was for serviceable shedding including a shearing shed, a six bay machinery shed with a concrete floor and power with a large rain water tank, woodshed and farm style storage spaces. There is also a good set of sheep handling facilities, including yards and loading race.
All the five paddocks have reticulated stock water to troughs and dams and there is an 80 metre deep quality bore equipped with an electric pump that delivers about 4000 litres per hour. An extra paddock with an area of 12 hectares (30 acres) is separated by a double frontage to the local Dry Creek, which even in the driest summer retains a run of pools.
