The August field day will be at the Dagun Railway Station, Sunday 31 August Permanent vegetable production beds in steep country at Wurraglen, Dagun Steve Burgess will explain the irrigation system that he and Elaine Bradley use on their permanent vegetable beds in their newest market garden at their Wurraglen property by bringing all the bits [...]
Warren McEwan and Karen Jarling demonstrate their cattle and pasture system on a cold clear westerly windy Widgee afternoon in June, just after the first hard frost for the year. June Report - Warren McEwan and Karen Jarling, CGL Beef, Widgee. A classic, clear crisp windy Widgee afternoon was well spent by the 25 or [...]
Tonight, a few coop members attended the showing of 4 short films produced by MasHumas and RegenAg documenting some aspects of their 2013 study tour of Australian farmers to Central America. Seeing as the Spanish versions of these films are already published on YouTube by MasHumus, I thought people who couldn't attend the screening in the city [...]
At the Summer School, we mentioned that we would follow up each month with a farm visit to discuss further important issues raised in the workshops. The next visit is planned for Sunday 29th June. Details are: Sunday 29th June, starting at 2pm.CGL Beef, 148 Power Rd, Widgee. Karen Jarling and Warren McEwan will be showing us around their grazing [...]
Kent explaining how the cabinet timber plantation is helping stabilize an old landslip On the 25th May, a dozen or so locals spent a glorious autumn Sunday afternoon looking at the results of land rehabilitation work by landowners around Dagun over the last twenty years or so. It was an opportunity to look at some [...]
At the Summer School, we mentioned that we would follow up each month with a farm visit to discuss some of the issues raised in the workshops. Our fourth visit is planned for Sunday 25th May. Details are: Sunday 25th May, starting at 2pm.Meet at Dagun Railway Station, Dagun. Natural areas are an important part of the [...]
At the Summer School, we mentioned that we would follow up each month with a farm visit to discuss further important issues raised in the workshops. Our third visit is planned for Sunday 27th April! Details are: Sunday 27th April, starting at 2pm.Tamworth Flyers, 1229 Noosa Rd, Tandur Tamworth pigs prefer sleeping rough to living in lighthouses. [...]
The solar dryer was a major farm geek magnet (review by Steve Burgess) On Sunday afternoon I joined a motley busload of farmers, gardeners and small business people for the drive down the Mary Valley to Obi Obi to visit the mixed farming and food processing property run by Alexina Johnson and her family. [...]
At the Summer School, we mentioned that we would follow up each month with a farm visit to discuss further important issues raised in the workshops. Our second one is planned for Sunday 30th March! Details are: Sunday 30th March, starting at 2pm.Obi Obi Essentials Kirby Rd, Obi Obi Keen participants at the last field day, [...]
This is the second part of Peter Young's excellent presentation on horticultural tree crops for small growers in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland/Mary Valley area. This talk was part of the 2014 Summer School held at Kandanga and the depth of directly applicable technical information about variety selection and cultural practices that Peter shares in these [...]