Who owns the Farming Zone? / Field of Beans
Who owns the Farming Zone? There’s a “Utopia” moment happening in our food regulatory landscape. One of those times the government’s “got all the stakeholders in the room” to “consult” over a big decision, has made all the right listening noises, but then after everyone’s left, seems to have stayed back for a beer with the big boys […]
A send off for the Gundaroo Tiller / In the field of opportunity….
A send off for the Gundaroo Tiller In 2003 when weeds were threatening to take over my new pumpkin patch down at Joe’s Market Garden I turned to Eliot Coleman’s New Organic Grower for help. Coleman, who had a deeply considered take on every challenge a vegetable grower may come up against, also had an abiding love of elegant & efficient hand […]
Ian Cuming – farmer at the pointy end. Got a spare warehouse?
Every year like clockwork Paul Haar calls to announce that his feijoas have finished. Pretty much the next day Ian Cuming (that’s him above) will be on the phone to talk about dropping off the first of his biodynamic kiwis Not this year though, with the endless summer everything is out of whack – feijoas […]
It takes an extended family to raise a crop. A bit chilli at Fair Food this week.
I just re-watched the video interview we made with Madeline 4 years ago when she was 21. It’s still amazes me how grounded and focussed she was back then especially when I compare her to the rocket-head I and most of my peers were at that age.Four years on I caught up with Madeline to see how things have changed from […]
