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 E4 Protest
S2 E3 Transition Towns
S2 E2 Compost, dog poo and recycling
S2 E1 Drawdown and Fire Safety
S1 E4 Plastic Free July Part 2
S1 E1 Plastic Free July Part 1
S1 E8 Chewton Primary School
S1 E7 Castlemaine Repair Cafe
S1 E6 Gung Hoe Growers
S1 E5 Mount Alexander Fruit Garden
S1 E3 Boomerang Bags Castlemaine
S1 E2 Plastic Bag Free Castlemaine with Lucy Young
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