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Celebrating country life in the Southern Highlands of NSW since 1996 Highlife is produced six times a year in Bowral, in the Southern Highlands of NSW.

Every issue features quality writing and outstanding photography covering beautiful homes and gardens, inspiring people and places and the best of country life. Highlife is also renowned for its prestige real estate pages.

02/07/2025

Need a cheery sight during this gloomy weather? Here are three more favourite photos from our cover story on the incredible garden at Pepper Tree Creek in East Kangaloon🌲🌟

01/07/2025

Looking for something to do on a rainy day? Two stories in our Highlands Life pages might prompt some ideas.
We spoke to Elizabeth Castle of Castle Handmade after she won the inaugural Australia’s Local Yarn Store of the Year award in March. Elizabeth’s boutique yarn store in Bowral’s Springett’s Arcade began as a pop-up shop in 2023, selling wool, yarns and crotchet, patterns, kits and knitting supplies. She also runs crocheting, knitting and other fibrecraft classes. “I think the judges were impressed by Castle Handmade’s community focus,” says Elizabeth, who offers “a warm and welcoming environment where I help everyone be successful in their craft”.
Berrima author Sarah Clutton tells us about her new book, The Remarkable Truths of Alfie Bains. A mix of drama, humour, mystery and suspense, it centres around nearly 10-year-old Alfie and his two grandmothers. “The story is set in a fictional small town modelled on the one I grew up in [in Tasmania],” says Sarah. “There’s something about the way that small towns operate that fascinates me.”
Two people at Highlife have read it and recommend it as a great rainy day read (or a read in any weather, for that matter!)

27/06/2025

Brighten up your day with the latest issue of Highlife! ✨
Our June/July issue is now available, packed with captivating stories and stunning photography celebrating life in the Southern Highlands.
Grab a copy at your local newsagency or find us at 25 Harris Farm Markets. Don’t miss out – visit our website for stockists and bring home a piece of the Highlands today! 📖💚

25/06/2025

When Goulburn landscape designer Lorna Vallely and her husband Paul moved to Ireland in 2018, the fates smiled when they found Moyaliffe House, a historic property whose garden walls no longer encompassed a garden.
Now back in living and working Goulburn (where she runs LV Landscapes), Lorna has written about their Irish garden restoration. Pictured here is an original garden gate, Lorna and Paul with Stanley, one of five dogs they took to Ireland, and the results of their labour (this area was bare when they bought the property).
You can read their story – and see many more beautiful photos – in our June/July issue.

24/06/2025

Bowral locals Kate and Richard Vines are shining a spotlight on rare cancers 13 years after founding national charity Rare Cancers Australia (RCA) in the Southern Highlands.
The co-founders are inviting the local community to celebrate Rare Cancers Awareness Day on Thursday, June 26 at the RCA Head Office in Bowral’s Springett’s Arcade from 10:15am to 11:15am.
Anyone wanting to find out more about how RCA can help them or a loved one – or wanting to meet others who have been diagnosed with a rare cancer – is welcome to attend.
RCA is Australia’s peak advocacy and support organisation for people with rare and less common cancers, providing support for up to 2500 people each year and influencing national health policy.

18/06/2025

Don’t be deceived by the sedate-looking exterior of the 90-year-old Bundanoon Soldiers’ Memorial Hall in our ‘Then and Now’ pages. The hall is filled with activity almost 365 days of the year, be it Pilates or exercise classes, the Makers Market, Bundanoon Garden Club, Bundanoon Sings, the Bundanoon History Group or Technology for Seniors, to name a few. Arts Bundanoon presents monthly concerts, Melting Pot Theatre and Melting Pot Youth Theatre run plays and workshops, and the Rex Cinema committee screens about 10 films a year.
We photographed representatives of some of the 30-plus groups that use the hall. The historic shot shows Railway Avenue in 1936, a year after the hall was built.
The Bundanoon Makers Market is held in the hall on the first and third Sunday of the month.

16/06/2025

You can see (and buy!) some beautiful botanical art at Retford Park until July 6🌿✨
Artists and illustrators from all over Australia are exhibiting at the fourth CanAssist Southern Highlands Botanical Art & Illustration Prize at Retford Park’s White Cottage Gallery. The exhibition opened on June 12, and pictured here are first prize (Angela Lober - Banksia ericifolia), second prize (Judy Morris - Actinotus helianthi, Flannel Flower), as well as Bowral artist Elaine Musgrave’s Cedrus deodara. All artworks, prints and cards are for sale. CanAssist SH, a volunteer-run charity that provides financial help to people undergoing cancer treatment, will receive 25% commission.
White Cottage Gallery opens Thursday to Sunday, 10am to 4pm, and entry is free.
For details visit: https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/event/southern-highlands-botanical-art-and-illustration-prize-exhibition/

13/06/2025

12/06/2025

One for the diary for classical music lovers: the Southern Highlands Symphony Orchestra’s winter concert series, Homage to Double Reeds, will be held on June 28 and 29 at Bowral Memorial Hall.
The series will star the symphonic sounds of the cor anglais (English horn) and bassoon, coupled with one of the greatest symphonic works of the 19th century, Brahms’ Symphony No. 4. Soloists will be Michellé Biasutti (left) and Cassandra Morgan.
See our Highlands Life pages for further details, or visit https://shso.org.au/
(Photos: Steven Foster)

11/06/2025

The Southern Livestock Regional Exchange, known locally as Moss Vale saleyards, is one of the busiest in NSW, with more than 60,000 cattle through the gates annually. For our story, we visited on the busiest day of the year, the annual Weaner Sale on April 3.
Sales are held at the Berrima Road site every Wednesday, and spectators are welcome to attend. Some cattle are sold ‘in the yard’ via overhead selling (as pictured here), while others are sold ‘in the ring’, where you can take a seat while watching the action.

07/06/2025

Ready for the long weekend? Our June/July issue is just out, perfectly timed for a relaxing read. It’s packed with captivating stories and stunning photography celebrating the Southern Highlands.
Grab a copy at your local newsagency or find us at 25 Harris Farm Markets. Visit our website for stockists and bring home a piece of the Highlands today! 📖💚

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