Unexpected harvest
When pistachio farmer Shane O’Dea returns my call, he explains he’s been tied-up in the neo-natal intensive care unit delivering a set of twins. Like many farmers, Shane has a city job that helps keep the farm going.
Gold nuggets up at Noleen’s
Noleen runs Emmaline Farm, a small property tucked below the Cathedral Ranges near Buxton in Taungurung Country.
The Waring
Look out for Manny’s persimmons, apples from Hazeldean Forest Farm, pears, quinces, Noleen’s gold nuggets, walnuts, olives and Paul’s feijoas.
How to grow a grower
Young urban farmers like Charlotte, Pat and Kirsty are the future of our food supply, nurturing their success is nurturing the land and the regeneratively grown fruit and vegetables we’ll be eating in years to come.
Impact measurement
More than ever we are waking up and wanting to learn about our food and how to grow it and more than ever we are going to CERES Organic Farm to do it.
Fully Franked
Outwardly the visiting tree farmers are not particularly upbeat nor are they in any way dour but there is a solidity about them – perhaps it’s their ability to envision cycles of time that most of us will never be able to see.
