This is the first of four episodes that will be released about the Harcourt Organic Farming Cooperative.
Long term listeners may remember two episodes from season one that captured conversations with farmers from the cooperative as it was just beginning back in 2018.
I’ve been following the process of this cooperative with interest since it began because it is a fascinating case study of alternative farming... that is, an alternative to large scale, monocultural farming which contributes to climate change rather than helping mitigate it.
Listen to Katie talking about what it has been like to open her family farm up to young farmers and the co-op - what she affectionately describes as an incredible octopus!
Links:
Project Drawdown on climate and farming
HOFC
Grow Great Fruit
Fruit Tree Nursery
Gung Hoe Growers
Sellar Dairy
Indigenous native food – Murrnong Mummas
The Orchard Keepers
World Wildlife Fund – Innovate to Regenerate fund
AFSA – Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance
Farming on other people’s land - FOOPL
Grounded – community land trust
Farmer Incubator
This Farm Needs a Farmer (Facebook link)
Growing Farmers
Related episodes:
Saltgrass Season 1 Katie and Ant
Saltgrass Season 1 Gung Hoe Growers with Sas and Mel
Saltgrass Season 2 Regenerative Farming
S5 E02 Wilderhoods
S5 E01 Wheelie Bins with Gemma
Zoe Scoglio and the Castlemaine Commons Collective: Episode 4
Zoe Scoglio and the Castlemaine Commons Collective: Episode 3
Zoe Scoglio and the Castlemaine Commons Collective: Episode 2
Zoe Scoglio and the Castlemaine Commons Collective: Episode 1
Bonus: NonfictioNow Panel Discussion - part 2
Bonus: NonfictioNow Panel Discussion - part 1
End Season 4 - short message
S4 E18 Djakitj Larr - part 2
S4 E17 Djakitj Larr - Eating Country Healthy
S4E16 The Youth Are Rising
S4 E15 Democracy For Dinner
S4 E14 A Library of Seeds
S4E13 Futures with Alex Kelly and John Wiseman
Podcast listeners, I haven’t forgotten you!
S4E12 Water with Steven Healy from Coliban Water
S4E11 Getting to Know You with Kathryn Coff
S4E10 Mildura Part 2: the Eco Village
REPEAT: Adani Coal Mine
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