Colin and Sally's Organic Farm in Dollar, Victoria, Australia | Livestock farm

Colin and Sally's Organic Farm

Locality: Dollar, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 404 490 035

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25.01.2022 Final butchery session of the year. If you're after certified organic, grass-fed meat, straight from us, the farming family, then you need to sign up for our CSA subscription for 2021. Because it is closing soon... https://www.colinandsallys.com.au/online-store Delivered straight to your door, with monthly payments. Get on board. Home compostable packaging too! And Victoria-wide delivery.

25.01.2022 What a wonderful feeling to have such excellent people around us. We have a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model of feeding our community and we have a Covered CSA Share, whereby CSA members contribute a little extra each month, in order to collectively donate our lamb and beef to those who need a feed. This year, this Covered Share has been sent off to Manna Gum Community House and Olivia's Place. An intristic principle of the CSA movement is to help others in one's community; we're walking the talk, collectively. #csamembersareawesome

24.01.2022 David. The Funcle (Fun-Uncle), Colin's younger brother and King of All Puns. Living with us at the farm now and an integral part of our new-found-next-stage resilience as we diversify. Is he amazing with our two kids? Yep. Did he slightly clip the shed with the tractor? Also yes. This is truly a family farm now. Looking forward to sharing more of our resilience projects soon. Will I tease him about this selfie? Also yes. #swashbuckleshot #funcleswhoplow

24.01.2022 Announcing our second potato variety going in: certified organic kipfler potatoes! I love these beauties. #thiscouldsavethefarm

24.01.2022 Something which I'm very proud of. Our corned beef. That red brine is coloured by beetroot juice. No numbers or colours...just sugar, spices and salt. You need corned beef. ... This and more, up on the store: https://openfoodnetwork.org.au/prom-coast-food-co-op/shop Also, only a few lambs left for the CSA 2021...best get on it: https://www.colinandsallys.com.au/online-store

23.01.2022 Colin and Sally's Potato CSA 2021. This could save a family farm. Its almost time to launch. We will be opening our CSA soon to our current members, then our Waiting List.. and we may be able to offer our Potato CSA up, perhaps even to the public. Weekly deliveries, to your door, over 15 weeks in early 2021...of freshly-dug, certified organic Dutch Cream potatoes.... This is how you can support a farming family. Not on the Waiting List? Get in touch. Meeniyan pickup, metropolitan Melbourne, and local by arrangement.

22.01.2022 The light is changing; brighter. We need that.

21.01.2022 I call them the "farmer's pick". Those potatoes which are too small to sell as chats. We love them.

21.01.2022 Proud moment. Our first 5kg bags of certified organic Dutch Cream potatoes are all bagged up in readiness for our first weekly CSA delivery tomorrow. #csamembersareawesome

21.01.2022 "This is going to be the best experience ever"...*lowers self into basket*...clearly Lockdown2 has lowered expectations.

20.01.2022 Beef!!! Certified Organic, always Grass-Fed - including our NEW Beef and Beetroot Burgers, Beef and Vegetable Rissoles, Bones for Broth...are now available to order via my "other hat", the Prom Coast Food Collective , a collaboration between over 20 small-scale organic growers in the Gippsland area. We've greatly expanded our home-delivery area! Orders open for home delivery on Sunday 23rd August: openfoodnetwork.org.au/prom-coast-food-co-op/shop Over 20 farming families and... makers, organic and regenerative farming practices...one store, one payment, one pick up. It is so simple. Make sure your shopping $ goes to something good.

19.01.2022 Our corned beef. That red brine is coloured by beetroot juice. No numbers or colours...just sugar, spices and salt. Winter needs corned beef. With mash. This amd more, up on the store: https://openfoodnetwork.org.au/prom-coast-food-co-op/shop

19.01.2022 Music to our ears. These potatoes are selling out super fast every week via Prom Coast Food Collective. There may be only two bags left! https://openfoodnetwork.org.au/prom-coast-food-co-op/shop

19.01.2022 Changing landscape. Another field of potatoes going in. The sheep have been in there for a week previously, depositing lots of goodness in readiness for planting. Our Potato CSA will be ready to launch in mid-December...with deliveries starting late-January. Certified organic Dutch Cream potatoes, delivered straight to your door, weekly. I'm excited. Send me a message to go on the Waiting List.

17.01.2022 Snowing on the farm!

16.01.2022 The Dutch Cream potato seed stock arrived this afternoon! We'll be planting this week - eek! It is absolutely all hands on deck here but let's face it, it is not particularly difficult to rope children into tasks when knives are involved, right? #thiscouldsavethefarm #wheredoyourspudscomefrom #thisisgettingrealnow

16.01.2022 Lockdown home-schooling with requisite poddy lamb.

15.01.2022 Almost sold out! Over 100 families have signed up for CSA 2021 and there's only a couple of shares left. If you want to support a farming family and want to know where your meat comes from, then purchasing direct from a farmer is the way to go. And Community Supported Agriculture is the ticket amongst the thicket. By purchasing a CSA share, you are assured of your ethically-produced beef, lamb and potatoes for the year, and we are freed up to spend more time farming and with ...family. It also helps you budget as you can pay monthly for your organic, grass-fed meat. Which is delivered straight to your door, in compostable packaging. Perhaps tag a friend to let them know about the CSA program or share this around to get the word out! https://www.colinandsallys.com.au/online-store

14.01.2022 Boy in hay with calf. #animalwhisperer

14.01.2022 Only a handful of CSA shares left. You can sign up for lamb or beef or potatoes...or a combination of all three. Certified organic, grass-fed, delivered straight to your door in home compostable packaging. Monthly payment schedule starting January 2021. Get your meat sorted for the year ahead. Make this happy farmer even happier (and he's pretty happy as it is): https://www.colinandsallys.com.au/online-store

12.01.2022 Lambing is on. A twin, from a younger ewe, we have brought this voracious little one in to be bottle-fed. And now Colin has a shadow wherever he goes!

12.01.2022 ...and that's why we do what we do. We farm...to feed. Gorgeous CSA members. They just "get it".

12.01.2022 How's lockdown2 going at your place? Me? Oh, um...

12.01.2022 End of the day. Under the apricot tree. Just finished the first butchery day of the year for our gorgeous CSA members. Butchery days always end with a "Butcher's Tea" for dinner, with the kids taste testing the sausages made today. #itlooksidyllicbuttherearefightingsiblingsinthedistance

11.01.2022 Saturdays. The only day of the week I'm not in front of a computer. So I make it count. I plan, I prep, I cook. Laska paste was on the list today, so we eat well during the week. Homemade goodness seeing us through these days.

11.01.2022 Homeschooling, farm-style. One 9-year old learning to drive a tractor and plow a field. Closely followed by an almost-7-year old brother wanting his lesson, a poddy lamb and an uncle. Curriculum? Umm. Life skills.

11.01.2022 Seeing what our lovely CSA members are doing with their first load of potatoes delivered today! #csaforthewin #Repost @banjocrafts... I got my first potatoes from @colinandsallysorganic this morning. That meant that gnocchi was on the menu for tonight. So good. #banjocrafts #colinandsallysorganic #lockdown #lockdownnumber3 #nomnom #csa #csaforthewin #knowyourfarmer

10.01.2022 Here we go; Dutch Cream potatoes going in. #thiscouldsavethefarm #whoisgoingtosupportafarmingfamily

10.01.2022 No filter on this photo....kind of a metaphor for this year that didn't have a filter eh? Our plans to become more resilient and self-reliant are blooming.

08.01.2022 My morning coffee view. Up early for a walk, gathering good thoughts for the day ahead. Juuuust about to press send on the CSA Share 2021 offering to the current cohort. #notnervous #notnervousatall

07.01.2022 Beef!!! Certified Organic, always Grass-Fed - including our Beef and Beetroot Burgers, Beef and Vegetable Rissoles, Bones for Broth...are now available to order via my "other hat", the Prom Coast Food Collective, a collaboration between over 20 small-scale organic growers in the Gippsland area. We've greatly, greatly, greatly expanded our home-delivery area! Including Monday. Orders open: openfoodnetwork.org.au/prom-coast-food-co-op/shop ... Over 20 farming families and makers, organic and regenerative farming practices...one store, one payment, one delivery. It is so simple. Make sure your shopping $ goes to something good.

06.01.2022 Like many, we will need to pivot, change, adapt. We will have more news soon. This isn't goodbye...oh no. This is going to be good. I promise #hintingthroughthehastags #wouldyoulikefrieswiththat

06.01.2022 This is my Saturday morning view most weeks at the moment. Homemade beef gyozas for the freezer and quick protein grabs for growing boys. The gyoza wrappers were so very kindly sent from Melbourne by a very awesome CSA member. What a community. #csamembersareexcellentpeople

06.01.2022 Ever wanted to be part of our 2021 CSA? A yearly commitment, and you get the very best certified organic lamb, beef, potatoes, delivered to your door (to most areas of Victoria!). This is the most delicious way to support a farming farming. CSA places will be very limited. Shoot me a message and let's get you sorted. #csaforthewin

06.01.2022 Lambing. It goes well.

04.01.2022 Ahhh....memories...of when I thought lambing season could be tamed...

04.01.2022 This is feeling real now...certified organic Dutch Cream potatoes about to go in. And there'll be a few more surprises. This may just save the farm...but we are going to need YOU.

03.01.2022 This is the face of a man who successfully and thrifty refinanced a loan, to buy a new tractor. A tractor to do the new things we need it to as we diversify. This red, shiny tractor arrived today. #2coloursofcapsasfreemerchcanyouguesstheothercolour #realmenarecomfortableinpink

03.01.2022 We call it "butcher-tea". My two sons are quality control on the lamb sausages which are made at the end of each butchering session. I stagger in the door, jump in the shower, put on a load of washing, and within minutes, sausages and salad appear as dinner. Butcher-tea...it is a lovely constant.

03.01.2022 Delighted that a numbers of things dear to my heart are in The Guardian today... Colin and Sally's Organic Lamb and Beef, Prom Coast Food Collective and CSA Network Australia & New Zealand.