Today we are going to Village Dreaming Farm and Orto cooking school. Mara and Ralf live on about 15 acres just outside of Daylesford – about a 30min drive south of where I am in Castlemaine. They have been there since 2015 and in that time have transformed the empty paddocks of former grazing landContinue reading “S5 E17 Village Dreaming”
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S5 E16 Compost?! Yes, in my backyard!
Are you good at composting? I certainly haven’t been in the past. But with the help of a community composting group called YIMBY (Yes In My Back Yard) I have become a kitchen scrap saviour, a leaf collecting ninja and I make steaming hot compost. In today’s episode I talk to Lucy Young, Joel Meadows,Continue reading “S5 E16 Compost?! Yes, in my backyard!”
S5 E15 Salad with Soul
Recent episodes have been looking at the farmers out at the Harcourt Organic Farming Cooperative. We’ve been out there to explore how farming and agriculture might be done in a way that is earth, biodiversity and humanity friendly. Each and every one of the farmers talked about how important the support of the local communityContinue reading “S5 E15 Salad with Soul”
S5 E14 Love and Garlic – Gung Hoe Growers
It has been almost a decade of effort and love and garlic from Gung Hoe Growers – supplying our local community through the local farmers market, selling to cafes and restaurants and providing boxes of veg to seasonal and annual subscribers. Many have felt sadness on hearing that Gung Hoe will not be renewing theirContinue reading “S5 E14 Love and Garlic – Gung Hoe Growers”
S2E13 Food Security and Farmers’ Markets
In this episode we talk to Chris Hain and Mel Willard about Food Security. Chris is the President of the Victorian Farmers Market Association and market manager at both Bendigo and Castlemaine markets. Mel is one half of Gung Hoe Growers, with her partner in crime Sas Allardice. Gung Hoe Growers is the vegetable growingContinue reading “S2E13 Food Security and Farmers’ Markets”
S1E6 Gung Hoe Growers
A laughter filled chat about very serious issues; the importance of small scale diverse farming providing for local markets. Sas and Mel have been farming veggies on their patch of land in Harcourt, subletting from the Mount Alexander Fruit Gardens, for several years. In that time they have doubled their size and then doubled again, all theContinue reading “S1E6 Gung Hoe Growers”
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