Happy hens make a happy Dragan family

By Margaret Maccoll

Despite being a working farm for more than a century it was a growing interest in locally produced food in just the past few years that made farm gate trade a success and lifted the profile of the region’s family farm.

That Dragonfruit are in season and plentiful on the farm this month seems appropriate for a farm named Dragan but it is not the reason behind the name of the family run farm operated by Alexi Cox and Mark Dragan.

The fifth generation 90-acre farm is located just 10 minutes west of Peregian Beach Village and owned by Alexi’s mum who allows her 40 cattle to roam the property like pets and they in turn keep the grass down.

Alexi and Mark use nine acres of the property to run their…