Have you visited our market in Bungendore? Being a vegetable grower myself I don’t often get to the markets as a shopper, but on New Year’s Day I hitched a ride with my mum who’s a regular, and it reminded me just how great our SHA market […]
Back L-R: Emily, Nicola, Sam, Kimberley, Carol Front L-R: Sonia, Lucy, Ruth, Milo.
For one of SHA’s social media people, I’ve gotta level with you that really suck at the technical stuff. For the past ten years I’ve spent most of my time with my hands in […]
The other day SHA producer member Erin from Tobellie Hill posted a series of pictures to Instagram of her son Toby planting out his own market garden. Dan and Erin and their four kids run a market garden between Braidwood and Captains Flat, and apparently Toby had […]
I’m not sure how much introduction Sam needs around these parts, but if you haven’t met her yet, meet Sam our *new * market manager and community stall coordinator at SHA.
Sam’s not really new around here, in fact she was the very first market manager at SHA […]
I’m born and bred in Captains Flat, a village South East of Canberra on the other side of the mountains from Braidwood. When I was a kid you could get a coffee in Captains Flat that was pretty much on par with a coffee in Braidwood. Granted, Braidwood had a hardware store and the Flat […]
If you don’t already have a worm farm, why not? I’m not going to tell you how to set one up in detail, as there are plenty of great books and articles on that. This is more of a riff on worm farming from someone who used to be a bit bah-humbug about them but […]
Despite the Instagram highlight reel, it’s a risky, hard and unconventional life many of us small scale producers have chosen. It can feel lonely sometimes when the mice have eaten all your pumpkin seedlings for the 500th time, your creek crossing has flooded you in for a […]
We’re super excited to welcome our newest producer member, Fiona Buining from Ainslie Urban Farm. Fiona has been in the small scale and urban farming scene in Canberra for yonks, and has worn heaps of different hats over the years -teacher, activist, small business owner and farmer to name a few. She’s passionate about plants, […]
We are now in the last month of winter and on certain days you can definitely feel the first little flutterings of spring in the blustery wind. I can hear Lyrebirds singing their little hearts out through the bathroom window, there was a fly buzzing around in […]
‘Regenerative Agriculture’ is a bit of a buzz word at the moment with the release of documentaries such as ‘Kiss the Ground’ on Netflix and companies like Patagonia establishing a Regenerative Organic Certification for their cotton production. So what is Regenerative Agriculture and how is it different from Organic (or any other label for that […]
