Nestled in rural paddocks next to the pristine Beermullah lake is an old shearing shed which has been transformed by a WA family who are second-generation farmers in the region.

Philip Barrett-Lennard and Sally Calder run Beermullah Farm together with help from their teenage children. It is a working Red Angus cattle farm situated near Gingin, 100km north of Perth, and sits within the Swan Coastal Plains.

The farm used to house a community shearing shed for neighbouring farms to shear their sheep in. It was built in 1946 and was in use until the early 2000s when farmers in the region moved away from solely farming sheep and, like Philip and Sally, diversified.

This left the shed underused and dilapidated, so Philip and Sally decided they wanted to renovate the shed to give it a new purp

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