Accidentally growing new growers
Many young people who have lived, worked, and eaten with us on the farm have ended up becoming new growers, even if they didn’t intend to!
Use fruit thinning to protect your fruit tree
Fruit thinning is a simple technique you can use each spring to prevent branches from breaking in your fruit trees.
Growing fruit in wild weather
Learn our top 5 tips for protecting your trees and fruit against the (predictable) unpredictability of wild weather.
Creating community through gardening
Fruit growing in your backyard can be very solitary, but community gardening can be a great way to come together to share skills & grow food.
4 steps to a whole new fruit tree with the bud-grafting technique
Bud-grafting is a type of grafting done in summer that is easy to learn, highly effective, and lots of fun.
Organic farmers get thrown out of organic cafe!
When organic farmers get together they learn a lot from each other – and occasionally things can get a bit rowdy.
Wild Boars in Vietnam
Everywhere we go as we travel through Vietnam (where we're currently taking a short break) we're constantly looking at the landscape through farmers' eyes as we try to make sense of the farming systems we're observing. It's completely fascinating seeing the...
Farming Together in Harcourt
Hi Everyone, We're starting a new collaborative way of farming! At the moment it's called the Harcourt Organic Farming Alliance (which is accurate, but too long - we need our younger and maybe more creative Alliance partners to come up something a bit shorter and...
What’s Slow Money?
Have you heard of slow money? Sounds weird, right? Maybe you've heard of slow food though, which is an idea that's been around for long enough now that pretty much everyone knows what it means - it's basically the opposite of fast food! Slow food is an international...
Inspiring young entrepreneurs in small business
Meet this diverse bunch of young entrepreneurs with very different small businesses and enjoy their inspirational stories.
Organic farming across borders
We’re delighted to bring you a guest blog from Norma Tauiliili, who spent a week with us as a WWOOFer (Willing Worker on Organic Farms) back in 2017. She was a WWOOFer with a difference! Norma works for an organisation called Women in Business Development Inc (Samoa)...
What Do You Call a Gathering of Organic Orchardists?
A couple of weeks ago we got to do something we hardly ever do - hang out with a bunch of other organic apple growers. It may seem strange that this is a rare and unusual event, but it's the result of a couple of slightly unfortunate circumstances. The first is that...
