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 […]
UPDATE – AGM has been postponed – stay tuned for further details
Despite a trying few years, Southern Harvest has managed to continue to build a strong and vibrant local food and farming community. Through our market, online shop and produce box scheme, we are helping to connect farmers and producers directly to those […]
How did your garden do this season? Did you get any ripe tomatoes? Did the slugs feel unending? Did some funky new mould break your little green heart? If you don’t have a garden, perhaps you felt like the summer never really got going. Cool, cloudy, wet and even wintry at times, this past summer […]
No matter how you shuffle the deck, each farming season will bring with it a fresh batch of challenges, and it’s less about figuring it all out than it is about developing resilience, learning to ride the waves, find peace in chaos and then sharing this learning to build a strong community support network. It […]
