As above so below, only more so

As above so below…only more so About a dozen years ago on a two week intensive soils course in Lismore NSW, Dr Elaine Ingham revealed to a roomful of farmers that in the top few inches of a hectare of healthy soil there existed an interdependent web of nutrient-cycling bacteria, fungi, nematodes, flagellates, protozoa, mites […]

Culmination

It’s the peak of the growing season when a year or sometimes more of a farmer’s work comes to fruition.

The question that guides

Can food be fairer? It’s the question that guides our work and over the years it’s evolved in sometimes surprising ways.

No time not to use the regular plates / Farm seeks a farmer

Student Strike for Climate Change

No time not to use the regular plates     On Friday I went with my sons and several thousand other Victorian children to the steps of the Treasury Museum for the Students Strike For Climate Change.  From a respectful (non-embarrassing) distance it was thrilling to watch the crowd of young faces welcoming waves of […]

Alex Podolinsky – Pattern & Flow / Exciting Dirt

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Alex Podolinsky – Pattern and Flow   Growing up in 1930’s Germany Alex Podolinsky had a dream about a place with a giant yellow sun. Later as a refugee escaping World War II Alex Podolinsky came to the sunny land he saw in his dream and for the rest of his long life witnessed every single sunrise and sunset. If you’ve […]

Fresh pistachios – a rare treat indeed

Pistachios tree Wahrina

  Fresh pistachios – a rare treat indeed Shane O’Dea remembers that when they first started growing pistachios people said Wahring was too far South and the trees wouldn’t bear. But Jenny, Shane’s sister, did her research and discovered during the 1970’s the CSIRO trialled pistachios about 80kms from the O’Dea’s farm, confirming they were viable […]