Transforming 160yo Moyhall Homestead back to life a labour of love, time and money

Anna Robinson’s story is much like a fairytale. A fairytale set in the Australian bush with a run-down homestead in lieu of a castle and guinea fowls instead of horses.

When the then-Melburnian fell in love with a farmer from South Australia’s south-east, she had no idea the relationship would come with a 160-year-old homestead. Or the responsibility of restoring it.

“He told me that he would look after the outside and I had to look after the inside,” Ms Robinson said.

A few months before meeting Anna at his brother’s wedding in 2008, Andrew ‘Robbo’ Robinson had bought the 3,800-acre site with his family for farming purposes.