For each Berry Show, a person is chosen to be honoured as a Show Treasure to acknowledge their long and outstanding service to the Show.
Colin (Col) Walsh
There is a farm in Turners Lane, Jaspers Brush, that is home to champion cows, a progressive dairy enterprise and a fifth-generation dairy family, the Walshes. Colin’s parents, Frank and Jean (née Bryce) Walsh, moved to Turners Lane in 1958 and established the dairy now known as Waljasper. Previously, Frank and Jean had been dairying […]
From post-WWII immigrant to a pioneering veterinarian, George Borys and his wife Milada shaped Berry’s community with groundbreaking contributions to animal health and local life. Their story is one of resilience, innovation, and dedication, leaving a lasting legacy in veterinary medicine and the Berry region.
Jack McGee was born in 1911 at Far Meadow to Mary Ann McGee and William (Billy) Henry McGee. Jack’s father, Billy, was a legendary horseman, competing as a high jump rider but especially renowned as a gifted and patient horse educator. Jack grew up in Broughton Vale and had a love of agricultural shows from […]
Denis O’Keeffe’s grandfather emigrated from Tipperary in 1884 when he was 16. After farming in Kangaroo Valley and Brogers Creek and becoming increasingly involved in breeding and showing Illawarra shorthorns he founded Kiltankin AIS stud and dairy on prime land in Jaspers Brush. He married Martha Timbs in 1896 and thus began the O’Keeffe’s contribution to the improvement and breeding of the AIS breed in the Shoalhaven. The track to their farm is now O’Keeffes Lane.
Denis was born, grew and worked on the farm at Jaspers Brush where he raised, bred and milked Illawarra Shorthorns. In 1956 he and his parents started a new stud called Laurelgrove on their dry run and continued to breed, show and dairy.
Denis loved showing his beloved red cows at Berry and Nowra show. He showed cattle from a very young age, leading to a lifetime of showing and judging cattle and also produce.
Being a man of many talents, he also loved entering his woodwork, vegetables and delicious cakes in the pavilion.
Janet was born in Nowra, the second child to Nancy & Keith Miller. Her siblings being Margaret (Pottie), Judith (Ingall), and John Miller. They were all raised on the family dairy farm “Broughton Mill” in Wharf Road.
Janet attended Berry Public School and then SCEGGS for her high school years where she was a weekly boarder that enabled her to come home on the weekends and enjoy the outdoor life on the farm.
The show has always been part of Janet’s life since she was born as both her mother and father were heavily committed to the Show movement.
