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24.01.2022 We were all lined up to be at the off grid living festival last week but it didn't happen. So instead, the legends pulled together an off grid living magazine (It's online and free). Check out out. So cool! http://www.offgridlivingfestival.com.au/offgridmagazine

23.01.2022 GROW YOUR OWN - Online nursery now live! Charlie has wanted to be a full time orchardist for as long as I've known him. While still in our 20's he was already besotted by the humble apple and dreaming of rows apon rows of heritage varieties. In the last 10 years we've slowly collected scion wood from all over the country and then grafted and planted our orchard out. We now have over 100 varieties of apple, cherry, persimmon, quince and pear in our pick your own orchard. It ...has honestly been a labor of love but after a decade of planning, soil improvement, grafting, planting training and irrigation the orchard is beginning to take shape. While the trees still have a few years of growing to do before they are producing to capacity, we have spent the last few years grafting extra trees for our annual mid winter tree sale. All our nursery trees are grafted on site, grown free of synthetic chemicals, doused in mycorrhizal fungi and lifted by hand. This year we are also posting trees so if you live anywhere in Australia except WA, NT and TAS you can now snaffle a black barn heritage variety fruit tree all of your very own. I'll pop the link to the online shop in our profile. We don't lift the trees until they are completely dormant in mid winter and we have a single collection day here at the farm on August the 1st for those keen to visit rather than post. See more

23.01.2022 We are so lucky to have incredible people who put their 'colony' first in the north east. Take a look at this short film of a local apiarist who, despite being burnt out in the January bushfires, is focusing on building hope in the upper Murray. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqUv4wFk3_s

22.01.2022 So delighted to host this group of enthusiastic teens to Black Barn Farm on their first of many farm visits to get their hands dirty with practical regenerative life skillls.

20.01.2022 This Saturday is our Tree collection day. We are really looking forward to seeing everyone who has pre ordered trees between 10 and 4. Unfortunately if you didn't pre order this year, you've missed out as we have sold out so won't be open on Saturday for spontaneous sales. We sold exceptionally quickly this year so we have plans to graft twice as many trees next year across apples, pears, cherries, quince, peach and nectarine. Thanks for your support everyone. Jade + Charlie

16.01.2022 We've got a beautifully written story (Thanks evie perroni) about Black Barn Farm in the very first edition of the new regen ag journal Biological. https://issuu.com///bio-logical_issue_one_2020_final_issuu

15.01.2022 Heritage Fruit Tree Sales! there's still plenty of varieties available on our online shop. Postage is also available nation wide (except WA, NT and TAS) . They will all be lifted and posted by the end of July or if you prefer to collect, we will host a single collection day on 1 August 10am - 4pm Check out the range at www.blackbarnfarm.com.au/store

14.01.2022 We have now locked in a re scheduled date for the previously booked out intro to permaculture workshop. Numbers are slightly lower now though so book quickly to secure your place. We will consider a March event too if numbers fill fast.

13.01.2022 Last shout-out for our annual heritage fruit tree sale! We've been bombarded with orders from all over the country this year so stocks are low BUT there's still quite a range of interesting, little known varieties that we vouch for as being reliable fruiters which are all on black spot resistant rootstock. We lift them all from the ground this week and will post them before the end of July with a single collection day on August 1 from 10-4 here at the farm for those happy to collect. Order online at www.blackbarnfarm.com.au/store

13.01.2022 EDIT: 28 June WORKSHOP SOLD OUT! Following the first workshop sell out, we have released a second workshop date. Be quick though as there was a healthy waiting list already!

13.01.2022 Wwoofer wanted! Unexpectedly we've had a wwoofer who was coming to us for a month pull out. A real bummer as we're in the guts of our spring planting season and we bumped a lot of other people for them. Never- the- less it's the reality so we're back to the drawing board on filling the space from now. If you're up for a totally immersive on-farm experience here with us at black barn farm, come sit by the fire with us and embrace this small scale, regen farming drum beat. Drop us a line!

13.01.2022 The indigo shire local food policy s currently open for feedback. If you are eager to see this policy reflect the needs of our growers and eaters in this shire then please read and respond before 28th July. https://www.indigoshire.vic.gov.au//Draft-Local-Food-Policy

12.01.2022 We get asked often to recommend a pdc... this is the one! Both Charlie and I did ours (seperatley) and both took an enormous foundation of knowledge away. If you've been wondering how to channel your worries into a place of hope, a permaculture design certificate is a great place to begin. You come away with an entirely different lens on life and with practical skills and a framework for decision making that sets you up to feel like you can make significant changes to the way you live. The structure of this one allows you just the right amount of time to consider each design principle and put it into practice in your life before moving on to the next principle...

12.01.2022 Our long supply chain food system has been built with commodity markets and mass production in mind but covid19 has shone a light on the fragility of this model. There's another way we can manage our food and Brenna Quinlan has made it as clear as day in her recent illustration. We interview Brenna for our future steading podcast. She's definitely worth listening to.

12.01.2022 Another delivery of our berries. Very exciting!

12.01.2022 The wonderful and very capable communicator Eva Peroni recently interviewed us following the last 6 months of calamity. https://foodfirst.org/times-of-crisis-demand-counterstorie/

12.01.2022 And then winter arrived! After the mildest winter I can recall in these parts, the guage finally plummeted and the soft magic fell from the sky. I always forget how childlike it makes us all feel and act. Happiest of winter days... despite it being our last day before stage 3 restrictions begin filling us with a foreboding sense of what's to come!

11.01.2022 Season two of the futuresteading pod went live this morning with the wonderful Hannah Maloney from Good Life Permaculture

10.01.2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vQW8Tl_KLc

06.01.2022 Delighted to be featured in this new publication. Well done ORICoop

06.01.2022 PATCH PRETTY I'm up with the birds to share the fourth episode of @futuresteading where we chat with the quietly spoken, but clear thinking @brenna_quinlan who has a talent for turning concepts that usually overwhelm into whimsy that leads the way on how we should all be interacting with the world. With her sense of hope boosting my pluck today I'm getting stuck into the patch which has been taken over by pollinator pretties(which means I don't have any room to plant my cauliflowers). Enjoy getting her voice in your ears and her thoughts in your head. It's definitely a goodun!

06.01.2022 Community owned food! After six years as the founding president of our local food co-op, today I wrote my last newsletter to our members. It's a daunting sentence to write as the co-op has been such an incredibly huge part of my (and my families) life since the inception meeting in our shed back in September 2014. What a path that's been beaten since then!... Our ideals were lofty and our enthusiasm unwavering and while both have been challenged along the way, this little co-op played an integral role in building a community that celebrates food and the farmers who grew it right across our region. Thousands have participated in our events, schools programs and morning teas. We have participated in advocacy for local food policy and local food strategies and we have shown leadership in our cooperative commitment by sharing what we've learned about running a community-owned enterprise all over the country. It's been exciting, overwhelming, educational, exhausting but exhilarating. Founders of such community organisations are often described as weeds. They feed on nothing but passion, happily work with bootstrap conditions, and fill a void, creating fertile soil for the next stage of process, order and structure. Our co-op is most definitely ready to embrace its evolution with one heck of a wonderful board who are big thinkers, committed to the sustainability of this collectively owned food co-op. It's well-timed as this weed is heading off to fertilize the soil at black barn farm and release my book. A very real and raw, heartfelt thanks to all my previous and current board members, the beautiful and committed customers who have become friends, and of course my fellow farmers who we will continue to stand in solidarity with. Community owned food is exactly that, and it's only as strong as the community who make it. X

04.01.2022 Snow at home never gets old

03.01.2022 Any local growers not yet featured in this, it's a great initiative that is being picked up and reinvigorated again so get on board!

03.01.2022 When worlds collide and your farm, husband and podcast all end up in the same place. I stepped onto the other side of the interview and left catie to wrangle him and he recorded in the shed so he felt like any other one of our incredible guests and I gotta say he holds his own. For anyone who want a little (actually a lot) of insight into Charlie's long held philosophies, this is a really robust hour of his trademark intellect and capable sharing of knowledge. Enjoy having him in your ears for an hour on this week's futuresteading podcast.

03.01.2022 How are farmers in the North East planning for converging pressures and future uncertainty (COVID impact on commodities; climate; input supply disruption; land costs; compliance;)? How can we better show the public value generated by good practice (e.g regenerating soil) and build support among eaters and others to pay for it? What are the opportunities in short and direct supply chains? What models are out there? What are the barriers? How might we build on local strengths and energy to generate ideas or generate support around existing ideas for practical action? Have a project idea or want to learn more? Webinar 17 June 6.30-8.30 pm https://about.openfoodnetwork.org.au//farmers-eaters-ne-v/

01.01.2022 With the restrictions easing and covid-safe plans in place, we will resume our workshops for the Spring 2020 season this Sunday. We kick off with our "Intro to permaculture" and while it has been full for some weeks, we have just had two tickets become available. https://blackbarnfarm.eventbrite.com.au