Category Archives: "member contribution"

From SAGE member and market gardener Fraser Bayley A social media post from a person I respect and admire, forester Rowan Reid really pricked up my eyes. He posted a few pictures with the caption: 31-yr-old eucalypt (E. regnans x E. obliqua) we planted, pruned and thinned around over the years. Reached 93cm diameter. The

From SAGE member and market gardener Fraser Bayley While we at Old Mill Road BioFarm may have a reputation as market gardeners primarily, growing vegetables is just the beginning when it comes to our farm plan. As well as having livestock components to our whole farm enterprise, for some time I have been wanting to

From SAGE member and local vegetable grower Fraser Bayley While on a long overdue family holiday, Kirsti and I were fortunate to hang out in a small town called Kamiyama on the island of Shikoku in Japan. It’s a small rural town with rice paddies and veggie patches right to the main street. Small towns

SAGE Market Garden Intern Georgie Murray surveys her patch. From 2016/17 Intern, Georgie Murray Having had a life long interest in agriculture, but not knowing where to take it, I was fortunate enough to land the position of intern at SAGE in August 2016. I was in search for a proper taste of market gardening

The annual Deep Winter Agrarian Gathering accommodates about 200… the Facebook group of the same name had around 640 members before the unconference… numbers spiked by around another 50 during and immediately after… the local food movement is alive and well. Photo courtesy of Penny Kothe, Caroola Farm From Stuart Whitelaw, photos and captions from

Photo above courtesy of Michael Dempsey. From Stuart Whitelaw, photos and captions from Kate Raymond The truth in advertising police would have no issues with this event. It was deep winter and thermals, beanies and polyfleeces were the order of the day even inside the Dean Hall where we gathered. Daylesford (Victoria) is a very