Stories of our Biodynamic Farmers and Gardeners in Australia

GUEST: Cherie Hutchinson, biodynamic farm manager for the Jurlique Natural Skin Care Australia company

INTRODUCTION TO THIS EPISODE:

My guest on this episode of the series, Cherie Hutchinson, is a farm manager for the Jurlique natural skincare company overseeing the production of over 35 different botanicals and healing herbs on Jurlique’s farm at Biggs Flat in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia.

Jurlique is a natural skincare ...

Guest: Kym Green, biodynamic fruit grower at Ellimatta Orchards (South Australia).

Introduction to this episode:

My guest on this episode of the series, Kym Green, is a sixth generation fruit grower from Lenswood, near Adelaide in South Australia. Kym and his brother Peter run Ellimatta Orchards which are intensively planted with multiple modern varieties of organic and biodynamic apples and cherries. This was not always the case ...

Guest: Adam Collins, Kisima Farm, Evelyn Tablelands (FNQLD)

Introduction to this episode:

My guest on this episode of the series, Adam Collins, was born and raised in Kenya, and completed a Bachelor of Science degree in Agriculture in the United Kingdom. However he says that after five years of learning how to ‘kill’ everything he felt disillusioned as he believed that farming should be “about growing life, not killing it.” In 198...

GUEST: John Hodgkinson – experienced biodynamic grower and multi-talented volunteer with Biodynamics Agriculture Australia Ltd.

Introduction to this episode:

‘My guest on this episode of the series, John Hodgkinson, is a highly experienced and knowledgeable biodynamic grower who first encountered biodynamic methods in the mid-1990s and started using them on an existing 40 hectare farm he then owned and ran. So impressed was he wit...

Guests: Luigi and Nidya Marasco-Bellido, The Patch Organics (Bellingen, NSW)

Introduction to this episode:

My guests on this episode of the series, Luigi Marasco and Nidya Marasco-Bellido are share farmers whose Patch Organics business cultivates an acre paddock using biodynamic techniques on what used to be a holding pen for dairy cows. Their Patch Organics cultivation produces herbs, vegetables, and pasture-raised chicken, and t...

Guest: Sam Statham from Rosnay Organic farm near Canowindra, NSW

Introduction to this episode:

My guest on this episode of the series is Sam Statham who grows vines, olive and fig trees on his farm, Rosnay located near to the town of Canowindra in the central west of NSW. This is also the home of Sam’s family his wife Simone and their three children Molly, Georgie and Floyd. Sam himself grew up with his two brothers on a family fa...