Earthcare  Farm

Australia

Organic in Practice Fruit and Veggies in Season.  Garlic,  Sauces,  Jams  and  Chutneys.

Onsite Farm Shop,   Open 7 days a week,   Dawn till dusk.

About  us

 

Roger and Leonie Hall

Earthcare Farm Australia

1462 Chiltern - Howlong Road

Browns Plain

Victoria       3685

 

Farm contact:     earthcarefarm@gmail.com        Phone:    0260 268 194

Property:   150 acres  (That's about 130 acres too much)

Products:   Organic in Practice  Mulberries, fruit, veggies, bamboo, some crops, and preserves from our farm and districts produce.

Years Farming, Roger, 60 years plus, and Leonie, 20 years plus.

 

Qualifications:   Roger,      Diploma of Agriculture, Workplace Training in Farm Management, agricultural research, soil studies throughout the Murray Darling Basin.

                                          Lecturer in use of explosives for quarrying, mining, agriculture and construction.

                        Leonie,      Advanced Diploma in Mechanical Engineering, Certificate of Exercise Physiology.

Roger says,

                   I was bought up using traditional farming methods. 

                   While working at an agricultural research institute, I was involved with the introduction of chemical farming methods.

                   When we bought our own farm, we initially used the Industrial chemical methods of cropping.

                  Then, as the lies told about the danger and damage caused by the chemicals became blatantly obvious, we tried pasture cropping, then organic methods.

                  This happened part way through an 8 year drought, and as nothing grows without water, including soil biota, we changed from cropping to irrigated

                  organic in practice fruit and vegetables.

                  We opened a farm shop with veggies and preserves.

                  Our Mulberry jam and icecream toppings are very popular, and we enjoy talking to people in the farm shop.

Leonie,

                  Engineering touches everything in life, Including jam making.

                  The thermodynamics of heat transfer from saucepan to sugar solutions, the challenge of stopping the caramelisation of sugars, and the realisation that high density                                  solutions of sugars often boil below 100 degrees C. There's no substitute for a thermometer.

 

                  Having watched the exponential rise in demand for clean organic food, I believe the next agricultural revolution is in robotics. Especially for clean, green, tireless weeding of                    crops. Hopefully that will be a revolution that wipes Industrial chemical farming from the face of the earth.