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Come & Stay

Two ways to experience
The Farm at Mirrim Wurnit

Short-term Escape

Ottessa

An off-grid cabin in the Macedon Ranges

Ottessa is our Unyoked cabin: a beautiful, off-grid retreat on the banks of Mirrim Wurnit. Come for a night or a few days. Wake to mist on the creek, spend the hours watching the farm move through its rhythms, and fall asleep under an unpolluted sky.

No wi-fi. No agenda. Just the sounds of country, a wood fire, and all the time in the world to remember what quiet feels like.

🛏️ Self-contained off-grid cabin
🌿 Working farm and bush/creek surroundings
🚫 No wi-fi, by design
📍 ~1 hour from Melbourne CBD
Book Ottessa via Unyoked →
Volunteer Farmstay

WWOOF

Work, learn and live on the land

We welcome WWOOFers, willing workers on organic farms, who want to roll up their sleeves, learn about regenerative land management, and spend meaningful time in genuine country. In exchange for a few hours of help each day, we offer accommodation, meals and a real window into off-grid farm life.

Help with fencing, planting, animal care, vegetable gardening, or whatever the season calls for. You'll leave with your hands in the soil and a better sense of how food and land connect.

🌱 Regenerative & holistic farming practices
🏡 Accommodation & meals provided
⏰ 4–5 hours work per day, weekends mostly free
🌾 Seasonal tasks: planting, animals, fencing & more
Join us as a Worker →

“People come here to slow down. What we love most is hearing what they noticed on their way out.” — Kate

Ottessa cabin in golden grass at The Farm at Mirrim Wurnit
Tractor at The Farm at Mirrim Wurnit at sunset

The Home

Dug into the hill,
facing the escarpment

The house at Mirrim Wurnit is not a typical Australian farmhouse, and that is very much the point. Designed by Clinton Murray Architects, the brief was to create a home that could hold its own against the drama of the landscape: the creek to the west, the escarpment rising beyond it, the falcons nesting in the rock face, and a valley that funnels bitter winds from north and south in winter and bakes in summer.

The response was to dig the house into the hill, building protective walls from insulated concrete to buffer the extremes, while softening the interior with timber, colour and fine detail. From the outside it reads as simple, almost brutish in the paddock. Inside it is warm and considered. It sits a respectful distance from the creek, its form echoing the ridgeline opposite.

Off the grid from the outset, with solar, rainwater and no mains connection, the house was designed to live within what the site provides. The valley's climate demanded it.

"Where do you start when you're asked to design a house in a paddock? All before you is grass and flies and the distant moo or two. But this paddock was bordered on the west by a creek and beyond that creek a dramatic escarpment, home to a family of falcons and a feed of rabbits. Our design is an attempt to mirror the drama of the escarpment." Clinton Murray Architects
Designed by
Clinton Murray Architects
clintonmurray.com.au →
The house at The Farm at Mirrim Wurnit · Clinton Murray Architects
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The house from the top paddock · The Farm at Mirrim Wurnit

From the top paddock · the house sitting low in the landscape, Macedon Ranges hills behind