Meanwhile down on Hazeldean Forest Farm / Fair Wood at Darebin Pitch IT Finals
Meanwhile down on Hazeldean Forest Farm Jason Alexandra is just back from a ute-ride around the farm checking on quince, persimmons and the last few fuji and jonagold left to ripen on the trees. Jason (that’s him enveloped by fruit above) reckons there’s just one more day of picking before they say goodbye to the crew of two backpackers and four locals who […]
Vote One: She'll be apples. New Food Host in town.
Apples are back in season. Over the weekend I was talking to Jason from Hazeldean Forest Farm about the faith involved planting an apple orchard. It takes around five years before a new planting starts to pay back and often the planting doesn’t work out first time. Jason reckons over the last 30 years he […]
Apple Cider Vinegar – My Story. More New Food Hosts
Our great friends Marg and Jason Alexander from Hazeldean Forest Farm near Warragul have started making their own apple cider vinegar (aka ACV). Along with their apple juice, fermenting apple cider vinegar is a way they can add value to the 30 apple varieties growing on the farm. The apple cider is great and in […]
Seeing the rabbit
The other day Marg Alexandra from Hazeldean Forest Farm delivered a ute-load of early season Summer Reds to the Fair Food warehouse. We talked a bit about family, timber, the apple season (it’s looking good) but mostly about farm succession.
Marg and Jason's 30th Apple Anniversary. Not so sweet sugar-free.
Thirty years ago Jason and Marg (that’s them with some orchard visitors) came to live in their “green desert’ – 96 acres of dairy pasture with barely a tree (5 macrocarpas says Marg) just outside Warragul. With the early sparks of Permaculture firing their imaginations and the seed they’d strategically collected from street trees around Canberra, […]
