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
S2 E24 Regenerative Agriculture
S2 E23 Conscious Clothing
S2 E22 Neighbourhood Houses and Climate
S2 E21 What is Z-NET?
S2 E20 The environmental cost of our digital world with Maikel Linke
S2 E19 Cam Walker and Friends of the Earth (FoE)
S2 E18 Deep Ecology and Non Violent Direct Action
S2 E17 Adani Coal Mine and its protesters
S2 E16 Natural Funerals
S2 E15 Deb Taylor - The Long Ride
S2 E14 In the Beginning - Nappies
S2 E13 Food Security - Local Food and Farmers Markets
S2 E12 Peter Yates and Deep Adaptation
S2 E11 Author Illustrators: Trace Balla and J M Rodier... and the virus v the environment (update)
S2 E10 Coronavirus and Human Signs
S2 E9 Upwelling - Art and Climate Change
S2 E8 Coping with Climate Change
S2 E7 When the River Runs Dry
S2 E6 Protest Part 2
S2 E5 Terry White
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