If you were high above Nimbin, you wouldn't see the yellow circle around Grannys Farm but you would see how close we are to the village.

Until early 1973, Nimbin was just another small dairying community struggling to survive the rural changes in the region. The nationally-promoted Aquarius Festival changed all that, and the influx of starry-eyed visitors from around Australia, intent on exploring new 'alternative' ways of living, made Nimbin into the destination of dreams. Dreams which have become realities on the many multiple occupancy communities which have become world leaders in self sustainability and environmental awareness.

 

For quite some time, Nimbin has been one of the world’s top hippie travel destinations and is visited by over 140,000 tourists every year. Seeing the reality of the alternative lifestyle 'warts and all' is a major draw, it is as if the rest of the world is waking up to the wisdom that Nimbin has been practicing since the 1970s. 

Nimbin can be very confronting, sometimes it is a mirror, some times a window, a window into a whole new way of looking at the world and society.

The surrounding beauty of the country side has to be seen to be believed, the diversity of the wild life, likewise.

Grannys farm is an ideal base camp to explore the surrounding rainbow region with water falls and water  holes for swimming and plenty of rainforest to explore.

But if you just want to hang out on the grounds of Granny's farm its ten acres and creek side shade is  enough space  to enjoy the peace and quite the best stress relief around.

Many  alternative therapists are situated  close by and all modalities of healing are practiced through out the valley.

Meditation, massage and acupuncture can be arranged.

The original tribal people were the Widgibal clan of the Bundjalung. Nimbin was an important site for male initiation. The land was considered sacred. During the 1800’s pioneer European settlers cleared land for the timber industry and began farming bananas and dairy mainly. The land provided families with homes, food, employment and community. The 2nd wave of settlers came in the 1970’s with ideas of, alternative home building, organic growing and farming, solar, wind and water power development and the creation of land co-operatives with a blend of ‘new age’ spiritual and tribal.

Today Nimbin is a vibrant community reflecting the past and celebrating the future as a sustainable culture.

MAJOR EVENTS
* Community Markets - 3rd Sunday of each month
* Nimbin School of Arts Autumn Festival - April
* Mardi Grass - May
* Nimbin Spring Arts Festival - October
* Nimbin Agricultural Show - September


 

Terania Creek is at the end of a windy, 14 km dirt road from The Channon. This picnic area was once the scene of major logging protests in the late 70s and early 80s. The walk to Protestors Falls, named to commemorate those protests which saved the area from further logging, is an easy 1.4 kilometre trek which follows the creek upstream through a lush, palm -laden track to the base of the falls.

As inviting as the swimming hole below the waterfall looks on a summer's day, swimming is not permitted because the endangered Fleay's Barred Frog lives here. Watch out for the cheeky goannas and kookaburras in the picnic area, who know when there are lunch scraps about.

Minyon Grass and Minyon Falls are both accessed via Minyon Drive, with the former offering the best views of the falls. Choose the Falls walk as the starting point for the Minyon Loop walk, a 7.5 km round trip which brings you to the base of the falls and along the escarpment. The loop walk starting at Minyon Grass is only four kilometres round trip.

The Whian Whian 30 km scenic drive takes you through both Nightcap and the State Forest via an unsealed narrow road, suitable for two-wheeled cars in dry weather. Stop at Peates Mountain Lookout for the view and Rummery Park for a picnic or to camp.
 

Mebbin National Park, 40 minutes drive south of Murwillumbah and about an hour north of Nimbin, is a relatively new park, dedicated in 1999 as part of the North-East Regional Forest Agreement.

This 3,758 hectare park was actually a state forest for 82 years and the site of heavy logging for the last 30 of those years. A very small section, containing the Mebbin Lagoon, is World Heritage listed.

From the picnic and camping area you can walk 450 metres to Byrill Creek, through subtropical rainforest and ancient fig trees. Another short walking route, from the car park on Lemon Tree Road, takes you to the awesome 400-year-old Giant Ironbark tree.
 

Mt Nardi is accessed via a 12 km sealed road from Nimbin. There are three walks that begin here. The Mt Matheson Loop is an easy to moderate three kilometre walk. From this Loop, you can take the four kilometre Pholis Gap walk which provides views of Mt Warning and the valleys; or tackle the Historic Nightcap Track, a 16 km journey that passes along parts of the route taken by postal workers and travellers between Lismore and Murwillumbah in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

The national parks around Nimbin in the state's far north surround the extinct Mt Warning volcano and boast waterfalls, sheer cliff walls and lush gullies. As far as bush walking is concerned it doesn't come any better.

Nimbin's closest National Park is Nightcap, which covers 8,145 hectares and adjoins Whian Whian State Forest. In 1989, 5,000 hectares of the Park was granted World Heritage status when it was made part of the Central Eastern Rain forest Reserves of Australia.

The park is on the southern rim of the extinct Mt Warning volcano which makes its geographic features quite spectacular. Waterfalls, sheer cliff walls and lush gullies are common features of this beautiful park, which boasts the highest annual rainfall in NSW.

In New South Wales, the cultivation, selling and possession of cannabis is illegal.

In Nimbin all three activities are part of every day hippie culture. Nimbin has a high tolerance for cannabis plant (marijuana), with the open buying, selling and consumption of locally grown cannabis on the streets and laneways.

To rally for an end to the prohibition of cannabis in Australia, Nimbin holds its annual MardiGrass. On the first weekend in May, thousands descend on Nimbin for cannabis oriented fun and frivolity in Austrlia's biggest Cannabis Prohibition Protest Rally.
 

At night, entertainment ranges from the Blue moon Cabaret, there is the Harvest Ball and Picker's Ball, rave doof parties, as well as poetry and jazz in local cafes. There are any number of shops in Nimbin geared to the cannabis culture.
 

The Nimbin Hemp Embassy is a "soft entry point for drug information", and a shop selling anything to do with Hemp, except cannabis itself.

What is the latitude and longitude of Nimbin?

Nimbin is at a latitude of -28.59398 decimal degrees and a longitude of 153.22338 decimal degrees (GDA94 datum, which is for many practical purposes equivalent to WGS84). Latitude and longitude coordinates may be represented in a variety of different numeric formats:
Format Latitude Longitude
Decimal -28.59398° 153.22338°
D° MM' SS" 28° 35' 38" S 153° 13' 24" E
D° MM.MMM' 28° 35.639' S 153° 13.403' E

We hope that the peace and tranquility of Granny's farm has been shown in the photos on this page, if you take a great picture of Granny's farm please send it to grannysfarmnimbin@gmail.com