3 Veg Farm, Bathurst in Bathurst, New South Wales | Farm

3 Veg Farm, Bathurst

Locality: Bathurst, New South Wales

Phone: +61 488 960 912

Address: 78 Bant St 2795 Bathurst, NSW, Australia

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23.01.2022 Progress at last for 3 Veg Farm. First digging trenches from the main road for power and water. Next laying the irrigation hoses for the market garden.

19.01.2022 Just beautiful - golden beetroot. First time grown, from seed. They look like they would glow in the dark. They were snapped up at the mini markets.

18.01.2022 John is a whizz with his machines, digging us a clay lined storage dam and a habitat pond in a couple of days. He's been doing it for 40+ years

17.01.2022 A $60 secondhand mower from the tip shop does the job. Getting through 1/4 acre of thigh high African Love Grass is no easy task. Lots of stalling, (it and me!)

16.01.2022 You can't have a market garden without water. 2 x steel tanks built onsite in 3 hours - 67,500lt & 23,000lt.

16.01.2022 And now at last for the beds. First we lay wet cardboard (fridge boxes the best), then measure up, stakes & string lines. Then the hard yakka of barrowing 15cm of compost for the beds & bark chips for the pathways. Beds are all standardised to 10m x 75cm, and the pathways 45cm wide.

14.01.2022 More deliveries. A shipping container becomes the tool shed. 20 cubic metres of compost and 20 cubic metres of bark chip mulch, just to start with.

13.01.2022 Donning a white suit for some very important visitors. I love having bees on the little farm, such a happy presence. They just get up every day, know what to do and go about their business.

11.01.2022 Late old Bill Smith on the corner of Violet street gave me a small clump of perennial bunching onions 20 years ago. They grew well, I lifted, divided and gave divisions away. Then I neglected them, killed them off and forgot about them. A few weeks back, a friend’s big clumps of onions caught my admiring eye. They were the very same ones, I’d forgotten I’d given some to Karen & Michael. They’re now planted in the market garden as part of my rotations. Not sure if there’s a market for them but who knows how many gardening hands they’ve been through? Irresistible.

10.01.2022 3 Veg Farm is scrubbing up for market. Our first ever Farmers Market! Come and say hi at the Bathurst Showground 8am - midday.

10.01.2022 Busy planting Acacia, Tea Trees and Casuarinas with Lenore, Jarrah and Mali. Creating habitat for the resident swamp wallaby and little birds along the Hawthornden Creek.

09.01.2022 My mate Wayne has pottered away with a structure over the shipping container using second hand hard wood & iron, as strong as the Acropolis, reckon it'll last as long. This will act as the veg processing area, with sink and tables as well as collecting rain for the tank.

07.01.2022 Ahhhh, we've had such a wet season (not complaining) that the cardboard is breaking down faster than the weeds/grass is breaking down under it. Lots of repair work needed, with extra patches of cardboard.

06.01.2022 Corner of the farm: a gum, a wattle & a blossum

06.01.2022 40 beds done & dusted, all set for planting. Couldn't have done it without my beautiful lad Jarrah.

06.01.2022 Join Matt, me & Rohan as we walk over our degraded industrial 3 acre South Bathurst block. I'll talk of the plans for an organic market garden and ecological repair. But you won't learn from me, learn from the expert. John Fry will be there too. John has very kindly been working with me on the planning stages. His knowledge of permaculture, land restoration and water conservation is vast. I'll make some bikkies!... All feedback on the day is most welcome. Sunday 22nd March 10-11am 78 Bant St Best to wear long pants, closed in shoes & a hat.

04.01.2022 Matt's a ripper on the compost. He'll have to ramp it up though to cover 1/4 acre...

03.01.2022 Problem no. 1 So I walk in to my local landscape supply shop and ask for compost. Oh no that’s too strong, says the owner. What you need is this garden mix, developed with the local nursery, everyone around here has been using it for 20 years. Ok so I get 10 cub m plus also 10cub m of mushroom compost just to be sure, and to do a trial/comparison. We back breakingly barrow out 160m of beds with 15cm of garden mix and fully plant it out with seedlings. Not much happens. A wee...k later I plant the same seedlings in to the mushroom compost. Result: the Garden mix is rubbish, producing stunted yellowing plants. Mushroom compost by comparison produces luscious vigorous healthy plants. The next few weeks spent trying to rectify problem- compost, worm juice, seasol, blood and bone. Finally starting to get some results. First big lesson