Terrara is a place of possibility — a landscape that sparks creativity, invites gentle reflection, and shapes the way we grow, cook, make, and live. It is the ground from which our ceramics emerge, and the place that continues to guide our hands and our thinking.

We returned to the twin townships of Daylesford and Hepburn Springs in 2021, a region woven into our personal history. We lived here in the 1990s, met during that time, and later married at The Lake House in 2002. Even as our lives took us to cities, we always knew we would come back to the quiet rhythm and deep sense of community held within Hepburn Shire.

Terrara is our home — shared with our three dogs, Beatrice, Evangeline and Isabel, and a flock of heritage-breed chickens — but it is also a living, evolving story. Naming this place was our way of acknowledging both its ancient and modern histories, and our responsibility as its current custodians.

The Dja Dja Wurrung people have cared for this land for countless generations. Their stewardship remains a guiding example as we learn how to live here with respect and attentiveness. In the mid‑1800s, Swiss‑Italian settlers arrived and stayed long after the gold rush had faded; the old mine shafts at the edge of our property still mark that chapter. The Djaara word for gold is Kara Kara — a reminder of how deeply this landscape holds memory.

Our home is built from rammed earth, and it is the earth of this place that nourishes our garden and sustains our lives. Terra is the Italian word for earth — a simple truth that sits at the heart of everything we do. From these two languages, and from the layers of history beneath our feet, we shaped the name Terrara.

This is where we live, grow, and make. This is the ground that shapes our work.

Venetia & Jeremy Blackman