WHY IS RICHARD MORECROFT WILD AT HEART?
Announcement posted by Smart Marketing Magic Pty Ltd 12 Jun 2013
New outdoor lifestyle publication Your Fantastic Backyard reveals all this and more about the media
personality and environmentalist in its latest issue. In the new edition of Your
Fantastic Backyard magazine, media personality Richard Morecroft takes
readers on a rare tour of his backyard at JervisBay on the South Coast of New South
Wales.
In an interview with Your Fantastic Backyard’s Editor, Penelope Barker, Richard reveals that as a small boy growing up in the UK and Adelaide he always found the neighbours’ rockeries an intense source of interest. “I was always really fascinated by the environment and was always looking under stones and things for lizards and frogs,” says the committed environmentalist.
After reading zoologist Gerald Durrell’s book My Family and Other Animals, a highly entertaining account of the author’s childhood on the Greek island of Corfu and affinity with the local wildlife, young Richard dreamed of one day “living with nature and sharing an environment with all sorts of wildlife. Where my partner, artist Alison Mackay, and I live now is a fulfilment of that fantasy.”
The bushland acres Richard and Alison bought at JervisBay a decade ago are now a thriving private wildlife refuge, exquisitely captured in Alison Mackay’s beautiful images that accompany the article.
“It’s lovely to be surrounded by nature and have that opportunity to have something that is largely natural,” says Richard. “However, we have put in a lot of effort to live with wildlife as close to us as we can manage.”
Your Fantastic Backyard magazine, launched in May 2013, features a celebrity backyard every issue, as well as features on the latest trends in backyard design and new products, outdoor entertaining, gardening and pet care tips and DIY projects. Issue #2, now on sale, also features a comprehensive guide to outdoor heating, new trends in outdoor furniture, a fabulously funky garden by up and coming landscape designer Phillip Withers, a guide to outdoor cabanas and much, much more.
Subscribe to either the print or digital editions of Your Fantastic Backyard at www.yourfantasticbackyard.com.au