Get ready for Farming Together’s second season: All about share farming Thanks to all of you who came along with us on the Season 1 journey of the Farming Together podcast. We’re pleased to say, it’s by no means over. After receiving a bunch of requests from farmers asking us for more stories and resources […]
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My name is Victoria. I am in my sixties and run 1,000 acres in Braidwood, NSW, an hour from Canberra. Currently, I run an Angus breeding operation and have an informal partnership with garlic growers. I am passionate about regenerative agriculture and have the second-ever Ecological Outcomes Verification Certificate (EOV) in Australia for Regenerative Agriculture
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We are Robert and Anne Ashbolt from Ashbolt Farm near New Norfolk in the stunning Derwent Valley, Tasmania, a 40-minute drive from Hobart. We have been caring for this farm since 1980 and have a high-value, low-impact, sustainable approach to farm practices. We are seeking an experienced, skilled, committed and dedicated worker who shares our vision of a sustainable farming future to share our
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A new Farmers Mutual, which is being co-designed with farmers, through a co-design course, aims to ensure that farmers get a fair deal for their land stewardship. The Farmers Mutual has just announced their pilot program and launched their new brand. Ethical Fields is currently working with farmers to co-design a Protected Habitat Farmers Mutual with
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Farming Together is excited to release our fourth podcast in the series. Farming Together Program Manager Amanda Scott speaks to Sam Byrne, Secretary of the Co-op Federation. The Co-operative model: Commerce with a conscience Sam Byrne, Secretary of the Co-op Federation This week on Farming Together we speak to Co-op Federation Secretary Same Byrne.
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My name is Uri. I cultivate 2.5 acres of a market garden on my land that is 85 acres in total and ACO certified. Produce is sold at 3 weekly farmers markets (Bangalow, Byron, and New Brighton). This kind of activity is fairly intense because here at NNSW we can grow all weeks of the
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As a movement, regenerative agriculture finds itself having to address many challenges. One such challenge relates to a question I get asked frequently: “Can we certify regenerative agriculture?” While I understand consumers want a guarantee that the product they purchase has not damaged the environment, when you ponder the certification path from a holistic context,
Southern Cross University has been announced as playing a crucial partnership role in three new Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hubs. Southern Cross University will have a ‘knowledge broker’ role in Hubs located in Southern Queensland/Northern New South Wales, Tasmania, and Western Australia– translating research into practice to help primary producers and rural and regional
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Farming Together is thrilled to launch its new podcast series! In this series, your host, Farming Together program manager Amanda Scott, has handpicked several of the most illuminating collaborative stories from the 730 farmer, fisher and forestry groups that were supported during the Farming Together Pilot Program. You will hear how groups worked collaboratively to
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To formalise a collaborative group or not? That is the question that many of our farmer groups face when deciding which collaborative structure is best suited to their members. Quite often we hear the success stories of co-operatives but rarely hear the successes of the groups which decided to forge ahead with a more informal
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From our experience working with over 730 farmer groups, we can safely say the unsung driving force of so many collaborative farming arrangements are women. They may not always be visible, but every day women are doing the essential and complex work of building trusted networks for thriving rural and regional communities. It’s not something
A new Farmers Mutual is being co-designed to ensure farmers get a fair deal for their land stewardship. Ethical Fields is currently working with farmers to co-design a Protected Habitat Farmers Mutual with the aim to give farmers better access and higher returns on the environmental market. Farmers are set to be major suppliers of Environmental
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