Ben’s best on-farm chicken abattoir Yesterday, I drove out to Taranaki Farm in Woodend to see Ben Falloon and his new on-farm micro-abattoir (that’s it and Ben above). You may remember Ben’s Pozible campaign where eight …

Farming together in the city and an appeal to support fire affected farmers

With an end to logging our Victorian forests, let’s consider the future of ethical timber.

  Measure twice. Cut once.   There seems to be so many opportunities to mess up a perfectly good piece of timber even before a walking-DIY-disaster like me tries to …

Another kind of sugar When I was seven years old growing up in rural New Zealand my mum flew to Brisbane to help my uncle Jeff, whose Gold Coast nursery …

An upcoming field trip Kids come to Ceres and learn how to see webs of life in a bucket of water they pull from the old dam or in the handfuls of …