Successful small farmers – insights and experience
In the Successful Small Farmers session, there were three farmers talking about their experiences and what they’ve learnt (leading to their advice to those getting started). This was a really interesting and useful session – a wealth of knowledge and passion punctuated by dry humour and a good dose of dungarees 🙂
CSFC Farm Tour – Paicines Ranch
Paicines Ranch was brought primarily for conservation purposes – the real passion here is to restore the grasslands through use of holistic management, rotational grazing etc. Purchased with IT money – Silicon Valley seems to be inadvertently funding some interesting activity! The property is about 7,500 acres with low rainfall – long-term avg around 12-14 in (by my calculations this […]
CSFC Farm Tour – Hain Ranch Organics
Hain Ranch Organics runs a pastured poultry system (adapted from Joel Salatin approach), under / throughout an existing walnut orchard. Things that were most noticeable about this for me:
California Small Farms Conference: 6-8 March 2011
First stop on my US trip is the California Small Farms Conference – found through a random google on the day I left Australia. Very excitied to find this has been conveniently organised for my introduction to all things food in the USA. So Day 1 of my trip will be negotiating public transport to get myself to San Hose […]