It's tasty, juicy, and plentiful despite drought holding its grip on the Hunter.
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Citrus season is in full swing and for farmers Tom Christie and Dominique Northam that means it's time to make cordial.
The producers are transforming fruit on their long-standing orange and lemon trees at their Four Acre Farm near Dungog into homemade cordial.
When winter ends it's expected they will have juiced between 50 and 100 kilograms of citrus. Luckily, they aren't doing it by hand - but it's still quite labor intensive.
The venture means they have a staple item to sell at the Slow Food Earth Market in The Levee while they wait for their vegetable and flower crops to flourish enough to harvest.
"The cordial has a really nice and fresh citrus flavour," Mr Christie said.
They are established trees so they have their roots down deep. Some have a year on and a year off, but we've always got something producing. We make small amounts over winter every week or two for the market.
- Tom Christie
"We are waiting for the spring flowers to grow, so in spring we will have a lot more variety. This is something to bring when we don't have a lot of other things to offer."
Their farm has been blessed with a little rain, but nothing like the deluge they normally see over winter - especially during June.
In the vegetable patch there are some salad greens growing and a bit of radish. Most of the farm is engulfed with a garlic crop, which doesn't like to get its feet wet, and the spring flowers.
Dam water is being used to keep the spring flowers alive when a little rain does not fall.
The flowers will become bouquets at the Dungog IGA or appear in local florists' arrangements.
"There have been steady small amounts but we haven't had a big lot to fill up the dam," Mr Christie said.
We've got some water in the dam but I'd like some more before summer. More rain is always welcome.
- Tom Christie
"They are only small at the moment and their roots are small so they need more water more often.
"We don't have to water them as frequently as we do in summer, if we get a week or two without any rain we give them some."