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The Pottery Staff

Our style is highly unique and involves techniques developed by our team over many years. Each stage of the production involves a different person, as each stage involves different skills, perfected over many years of practice and experience.

Our potters, Johannes and Steve, form the pieces by hand on the potter's wheel.
Our decorator, Julie, carves a freehand design into the clay when it reaches the “leather hard” stage (usually when it is a few days old) Our glazers, Regina and Maria, hand paint raw glazes onto the design once the piece is dry (drying can take weeks).
When we have enough pieces Maria stacks them all very carefully into the kiln, and when it is full Johannes starts the firing. Firing takes roughly three days (half the time heating, then half cooling), and some pieces need to be fired more than once.

Behind the scenes we also have Johannes' brother Bernhard, a talented woodworker and builder, bush furniture-maker extraordinaire Kai, clay-maker Kingsley and gardener Adrian.

And a big thank you to our ever-changing team of Wwoofers (Willing Workers on Organic Farms), who come from all over the world to help out with the many and varied things that need to be done in a place with so many strings to its bow. We've had helpers from Germany, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, France, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, UK, Ireland, Israel, Canada, Alaska, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, and even Australia!

More to do at Barkala Farm - the Home of Pilliga Pottery:

Pilliga Pottery is not only a 'Bush' Pottery unique in Australia
and one of the highest quality potteries in the Country.

On our 8000 Acre farm we offer so much more:

Farm Stay B&B Accomodation 

The Old Schoolhouse at Barkala Farm , now a B&B

Barkala Farm Stay holiday accommodation is more as just being on a farm. When you stay in one of our unique Guesthouses we can offer you the best of many worlds: Share our working Farm. Join a Horse Riding Trail Adventure over our 8000 acres property. Be part of our famous Pilliga Pottery. Enjoy a Bird watching tour. Relax in your cozy retreat and refresh in our unique bush ’Blue Wren Cafe & Kitchen’.

Stay in the Barkala Farm Stay Holiday Accommodation > >

Horse Riding Adventures

Horse riding Adventure Camp at Barkala Farm

At Barkala you can enjoy the horse riding adventure of a lifetime. We take you back in time: when there was no motorized transport , no radio or mobile phone. One had to walk or ride a horse. One had to eat raw food or… enjoy a cozy camp fire. Forget the world , live life as it was meant to be , get away from it all on horseback somewhere on our 8000 acres of total peace and privacy.

To a Barkala Horse Riding adventure trail > >


Bird Watching tours

Blue Wrens at Barkala , the leading theme in our Pottery

Barkala Farm and the adjoining Nature Reserve are home to over 120 bird species, many of which can be heard (and seen) early in the morning or as the sun cools. In mild weather, the birds will be active all day. Morning walkers will generally be accompanied by a mixture of common and more unusual species.

Come and discover that rare Bird with us > >