Regenerating Our Soils “Despite all our accomplishments, we owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact it rains.” – Unknown Yesterday I had the pleasure of preparing one of our oldest garden beds to be seeded with carrots. This bed – pictured above – has grown at least 7 consecutive vegetable crops

Winter Abundance & Hints of Warmer Weather As you can see in the above photo we are producing a broad range of high quality vegetables even in the dead of Winter. This is a great climate for vegetable production as long as we have access to irrigation water of some kind in Summer. In Winter

Happy Birthday Evan! On this day August 3rd, 1985 a quiet young baby boy was born in Wangaratta, Victoria. 37 years, 6 trips to Europe, 2 to the USA and countless laps around Australia later, that baby is now a Husband, Father, Friend and clean food provider for his community in the small town of

We Also Play Music! You may or may not be aware that Evan was a touring musician in a past life, in fact Evan proposed to Jill mid-set, on stage at the Northcote Social Club. We had an excellent weekend, filling in on bass guitar for The Go Set while their current bass player was

Frosty Mornings = Delicious Winter Vegetables! Although we do prefer the warmer weather with its vine ripened Tomatoes, juicy Cucumbers, Green Beans and Zucchini’s, Winter also provides its own unique, seasonal delights. Essentially anything that is not killed by a frost will be sweetened by its chilling effects. This makes Winter the best time to

Hello Rainbow OMGers, As you can see in the featured photo we are now supplying an abundant variety of Locally Grown, Organic Vegetables to our community. We are proud of the quality of vegetables we are producing and look forward to our output scaling up as our soils re-invigorate over time. We have been to

Hello Rainbow OMGers, What a glorious week of Winter sunshine, our baby seedlings have all put on noticeable growth this week with the return of the Sun. We have ordered all our new seeds for next Summer and will get the first round of them started this month in our Greenhouse. We are hoping to

Hello Rainbow OMGers, We have experienced our first general, light frost across the entire farm. As stated last week, we have only just entered the beginning of Winter so a frost is to be expected and celebrated. We celebrate frost as it imparts extra sweetness into all vegetables that is doesn’t kill. We find the