It’s High Time We Give You All An Update!
It’s been a while since I’ve written a newsletter, so I thought it was high time to give you all an update. Half of our farm has now sold, and we...
Farmer Updates
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Roughly A Third Of All Aussie Farms Have Disappeared Since 2000
Aussie farmers are just barely surviving by the skin of their teeth. Since the year 2000 over 39,000 farms have disappeared. That’s roughly a third of all farms in Australia...
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Dancing With The Wise Old Rabbit
Sometimes you feel like farming is a battle with nature, but this mentality doesn't bode well in the long run. Treating it like a battle only leaves you exhausted and...
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THANKYOU For Being So Kind-Hearted When We Do Stuff Things Up
It's Tuesday afternoon at 3pm, I have sat down to write this newsletter with the beautiful warm afternoon sun soaking my back. It feels delightful after such a frosty finger...
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Local Organic, Regenerative and Ethical Meat - Better for You, Better for the Animal
I'm going to have a rant this week! So here I am driving around the mid north coast delivering your fruit and veg boxes while listening to the ABC radio....
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It's a Difficult Time of Year to Receive So Much Wet Weather
The cold wet winter ground takes so long to dry out and all you need is a brief shower to restart the drying process all over again. Often this means...
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Could Our Problems Today Stem From a Very Fundamental Shift?
A nomadic tribe seeing nature as their mother that provides all they need to live life, so long as they respect the balance of intricately linked and complex webs of...
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Cover Crops Deserve WAY More Hype!
A few years ago now, we had a serious disease problem with our lettuce crops, they just kept dying all of a sudden, right before harvest. We ended up getting...
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Love Lighting The Way
Growing food organically means to grow food truthfully, to grow food with love. Farming has shown me that if we can find love for our food and the soil that...
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For Now... Saying Goodbye to Growing Brassica's
Winter has officially arrived on the farm, temperatures are getting down towards 4 degrees in the early hours just before sunrise, although we are yet to see our first frost....
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Together We are Breaking Records & Bucking Trends!
Last week we harvested, packed and delivered more veg boxes across the Mid North Coast than we ever have before in our farm's 5 year history. We are blown away...
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Visit Our Farm! Hastings Farm Gate Tour 2024 is almost here!
Open days, like Hasting Farm Gate Tour changes the game! Being able to have the farm open to you all, creates an experience, and a space to not only meet in...
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Get Ready! Your Winter Veg is Lookin So Good
It's Saturday morning and as I write this I am close to the fire watching the rain fall slightly at an angle outside of our living room window. The southerly...
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Thanks to all YOU Legends!
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...
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