Thanks to all you legends who support us, little old Sohip has had to find a bigger coolroom to store your veggies in and allow us to feed this growing community. We built the last coolroom just over a year ago now, thinking it would be plenty big enough to keep things cool for the next few years. How wrong we were, 12 months later and we are once again out of room...

The Lambert family have been farming for nearly a century! Over the last 70 year they have nurtured the Lambert Dry pumpkin to grow in size and colours through the help of bees pollinating and propagating. From humble beginnings The Lambert Dry is a pumpkin we don’t come across every day...

On the farm conversations around our outdoor table, where we all pull up a chair, have a cuppa, often have us discussing whats possible. We often say imagine when, image if... Some call us crazy for dreaming, for taking the leap in 2019 and becoming organic farmers. But theres one statement that comes to mind when the way things are being done, just doesn't add up.. There has to be a better way.

There’s always been a big debate... On whether organically grown veg holds more nutrients and is, therefore, better for you than a non-organic veggie. Well if we can ignore the horrendous chemicals used in non-organic farming for a second, then it really comes down to what is in the soil. We have 3 principles in achieving our goal of growing the most nutrient-dense veggies possible.

This powerhouse veggie is a staple and high in many nutrients, including fiber, vitamin C, vitamin K, iron, and potassium. But eating broccoli too late can mean a tremendous difference in nutrients! Some veg such as sweet potatoes, squash, even fruit such as tomatoes and berries increase in flavour and become vitamin rich. This is certainly not the case with broccoli...

Jose Mujica once said “ There are those who believe that power is up above, and they do not notice that it is actually in the hearts of the great masses”... We may be just a small farm, a small community but from small things big things can grow.

We’ve lost connection with our food and each other... Through growing food for you, we hope to get some of it back. Most people in the world now live one wall apart from each other... And yet studies reveal, a higher percentage of people in all age brackets are feeling more bouts of loneliness.

Falling down the Waste Labelling rabbit hole can be overwhelming! But we really hope in this email to break it down in a way that is helpful. We have rated each option from best to the not so great and also provided some pros and cons of each...

Magnificent Soil It’s priceless, irreplaceable, key to sustaining all life on earth...and it Needs Our Help! Our experience with relentless rain and floods hasn't been easy. Loosing veg to saturation was hard, but having soil wash away. This was devastating! Why? (perfect segway…) Soil is more important than we give it credit for!

We can rebuild, even save our environment and also receive all our body needs from only the food we eat. Re-building this connection has never been so important... Our demonstration is the teacher, our actions teach... There’s a saying ‘first we much teach our children how beautiful the world is, because only then will they want to love and protect it’.

At the beginning of 2020 we started our Market Garden with 200m of garden bed or roughly one third of your standard residential housing block. Since then... You all have helped us: Grow that 200m of garden bed to almost 3km!!! of Garden Bed with another 1km in the making, Increased our soil organic matter from 2% to over 6%…

Let’s talk about the now historic once prolific ‘Family Farm’. After all, the health of the food we eat and the environment we depend on relies on the people running the farms. This is a fundamental part of food production and environmental protection which is often overlooked. Since the last blog post, it's pretty much rained every day until today. As I sit here typing I’m looking out at a glorious sunset.