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.

If all this rings a bell deep inside you, then it’s time to get your picking crew together and bring your olives, your neighbour’s or your whole neighbourhood’s olives in for pressing.

Look out for Manny’s persimmons, apples from Hazeldean Forest Farm, pears, quinces, Noleen’s gold nuggets, walnuts, olives and Paul’s feijoas.

Noleen runs Emmaline Farm, a small property tucked below the Cathedral Ranges near Buxton in Taungurung Country.

CERES Nature Playgroup for kids, at Brunswick East and Joe’s Garden, is beginning in Term 2.

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.