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
S3 E13 Ecology and the Economy with Warwick Smith
S3 E12 Talking About Climate with Rebecca Huntley
S3 E11 Djab Wurrung Allies and Supporters
S3 E10 Djab Wurrung Sacred Trees
S3E9 Solar Bulk Buys
S3 E8 Zero Waste Food with Madeline Hudson
S3 E7 Student Strikers and Gas
S3 E6 Making Change with Natalie Moxham
S3 E5 Caring for Country
S3 E4 Ethical Apparel with Ilka White
S3 E3 Pandemics and permaculture
S3 E2 E-bikes with Sue Tomkinson
S3 E1 Aunty Julie McHale
S2 E31 Dja Dja Wurrung Radio - Gold Rush times with Vic Say
S2 E30 Dja Dja Wurrung Radio - Meet the locals
S2 E29 Dja Dja Wurrung Radio - Precolonial life with Bill Davies
S2 E28 Dja Dja Wurrung Radio - colonisation and its aftermath
S2 E27 Dja Dja Wurrung Radio - Ulumbarra
S2 E26 Dja Dja Wurrung Radio - Meeting Place
S2 E25 Dja Dja Wurring Radio Uncle Rick
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