Learn how to manage an organic orchard and run a small farming business – Learn about community supported agriculture and co-operatives – Accommodation and food supplied, plus a small weekly stipend – Applications close late Aug.

There is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to food systems research…which is looking at the role of CSA in facilitating transitions to more sustainable, healthy, and just food systems.
People who have been members of food CSAs in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand can participate in a survey (prior to 20 July 2020) or via a phone interview

When asked what you enjoyed most, the answered varied from the convenience and excitement of regular deliveries that were already paid for, to the freshness and diversity of produce that is grown “with love”. Some enjoyed witnessing the seasonality as different varieties came and went. Others really liked having confidence in the provenance of their food and a connection to the farmer.

Depending on how you get your kicks, running a budget may not thrill you like the thought of growing beets or milking a cow but there’s a certain beauty in a good spreadsheet.

There’s a certain romance about working on the land that fuels many farmers’ passion for their craft. Whether it satiates a primal drive to live and work in symbiosis with mother nature, or a worldlier ambition to earn an honest ‘salt-of-the-earth’ crust, farming is...

Soil ecology is an enigma to me and I marvel at its complexity and beauty. It’s a symphony of infinite living organisms and it’s a farmer’s job to be the conductor. Every new insight I gain is an exciting step toward that goal. I recently attended a regenerative...

Many of you may not know that I do not have a long history of farming. Just 5 years ago, I left my full-time employment, packed up my possessions and hit the road, eager to learn how to grow food. Everything I know now I have learnt through my farming mentors, reading...

There’s been a lot of hubbub about how farmers markets have become too expensivelately. This is not a new concept but it seems to have flared up recently. Kate Archdeacon from the Victorian Farmers Market Association (VFMA) composed this rebuttalto the above opinion...

Action on Climate Change A Food Sovereign Future Summary Food sovereignty is a kind of holistic thinking that must be applied to all aspects of life in the Mount Alexander Shire. I implore the council to implement a Food Sovereignty Officer, whose role it would be to...

Yesterday I arrived home from Food Sovereignty Convergence 2019. With our highest proportion of farmer attendees yet, I feel excited and invigorated that we will continue to create a food system. One that relies on agroecology, direct relationships, radical...

I recently took the opportunity to go on a short co-op road trip to attend a soil microbiome presentation by Dr Christine Jones. Dr Jones is a soil scientist and microbiologist, which is relevant to us as farmers with an ‘agroecological’, or ‘regenerative’, mindset....

About a year ago Tess (of Sellar’s Farmhouse Creamery) ‘roped me in’ to the Castlemaine Farmers Market committee (I secretly loved the idea). In spite of knowing my participation beyond offering my two cents at bimonthly meetings would be seriously limited, I...