We are an exclusively family operation, the partnership is run by Craig and Michele Gee, and their son Adam with his partner Kayla. They are greatly assisted by Craig's parents, Col and Carol, now both in their 80’s.
Age is no barrier, invested and motivated as ever. It is not uncommon to see Col towing the plough and Carol tending to young stock. They have been farmers through their whole life, both on their parents farms from childhood and then on their own when they purchased a piece of Caroline’s parents farm in the early nineteen-nineties. Their lifetime of experience and lessons learned are invaluable.
Operating just minutes from Beaudesert township in the Scenic Rim Shire of South East Queensland. Younger cattle are raised beside the Logan river, the land we graze there contains river loam with some melon hole country further away and small amounts of blacksoil. The property is littered with small camps of trees, namely the Grey Gum, from which we take the inspiration for our name. It is part of the farm Craig’s grandfather and Adam’s great grandfather first purchased after settling in the area in the years after his return from World War 1.
We maintain native grasses, cultivate some seasonal pastures and use some land to grow our own hay and silage, which we sell some of the surplus of.
The balance of the breeders, from second calf and beyond do their work on a block of coastal forest country that allows us to apply the sort of pressure required to sort out the soft from the hardy. They contend with hills and gullies, heavy scrub, lantana, ticks and flies and small occurences of wild dogs. The block contains some spear grass but is primarily rhodes, panic and kikuyu. Some sections of the block have pockets of the legume, siratro.
Craig and Michele have been married over 30 years and Adam is the second of three children from this union. Adam and Kayla met during Adam's tenure working in Sydney. Originally from the NSW South Coast, they all reside in SEQ now and collectively complete the work required to operate the stud and commercial cattle operation.