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Have you ever imagined yourself sitting on a terrace, overlooking
vineyards and sipping a glass of wine? If you have, this is the book
for you.
Fay has written Wildflowers, wilderness and wine about a year on the
Granite Belt. Already renowned for its wildflowers the Granite Belt
displays the Australian wildflowers of the Girraween National Park
and the introduced wildflowers like the golden coreopsis.
Then Eberhard and Fay established the Remembrance Field on their
land to grow the red Flanders poppies, a wildflower of the wheat
fields of Europe and the token sold to raise money for Legacy which
cares for the dependants of former service men and women.
The wilderness is represented by the forested mountain range of the
Granite Belt and its four unique National Parks, featuring granite
monoliths.
The Granite Belt is rapidly becoming famous for the quality of the
high altitude wines produced in this region of southern Queensland.
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Fay Helwig
The
eldest daughter of John and Jessie Mulcahy, Fay came with her
parents to live on a cattle property near the Bunya Mountains in
November 1944. Fay attended primary school at Yamsion and received
her high school education as a boarder at the Presbyterian Girls
College in Warwick. Fay married Stewart McIver at the age of
twenty. She lived on farms at Bell and in the town of Dalby for the
next twenty-five years. Stewart and Fay reared five children who all
attended school in Dalby.
Fay
was always active in community affairs. She was a member of the
Dalby Forum Club for ten years and served as the first
secretary/treasurer of the Dalby Tourist Association.
When her marriage ended, Fay moved to Toowoomba, where she married
German born restaurateur Eberhard Helwig. In 1992 Eberhard and Fay
moved to Glen Aplin on the Granite Belt of Southern Queensland and
established Das Helwig Haus B&B. Fay served as a Director on the
Board of the Southern Downs Tourist Association and brought fame to
the region by establishing the Remembrance Field of red Flanders
poppies that bloom annually for the 11th November and the
Red November promotion featuring the red wine, red cherries, red
strawberries and red poppies of Glen Aplin.
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