Introducing Young Farmers Connect - South East Queensland team
We are super excited to be welcome some new - but familiar - faces on to our Young Farmers Connect team and absolutely wrapped to have these champions of local food, food justice, sustainability and agroecology offering their support and facilitation to our South East Queensland chapter.
If you have been following the local food and farming scene on the Brisbane fringe you will likely know this amazing trio from their various endeavours and we are thrilled to have their collective expertise, their commitment to our shared values, their energy and their enthusiasm for supporting new, young and aspiring farmers into the small scale farming and regenerative food sectors.
We are all looking forward to some great events coming up to get engaged with, to connect and build solidarity on what is absolutely clear during these ongoing challenges that covid keeps throwing at us all - that local food and farms are now more important than ever.
To anyone in the SEQLD food bowl that would like to get in touch, get involved and get their hands dirty please contact us and the team : seqld@youngfarmersconnect.com and join the FB group to stay in the loop www.facebook.com/groups/yfcseqld
A big welcome to :
KATE KEATING
Kate has a professional background in waterway health and management, and is a passionate advocate for sustainable food systems. Over the past ten years working as an ecologist she has become increasingly interested in the connection between people and the environment, and how ecological principles can inform more sustainable farming practices, particularly in urban areas. Kate currently works as an environmental consultant and mum, and volunteers at urban farms and community gardens around Brisbane.
ARRAN HEIDEMAN
Arran’s Nanna taught him how to compost as soon as he could walk and ever since then he has had an enthusiastic way of looking at nature.
Inspired by a Geoff Lawton video he decided to do a permaculture design certificate and after visiting and volunteering on as many different styles of farms as he could he built his own permaculture market garden.
Arran now operates Millen Farm’s market garden which he built from scratch using permaculture principles and also teaches what he has learnt to others to inspire as many people as possible to follow their dreams.
NICK STEINER
To address the shortfall of good quality nutritions food reaching those in need, Nick Steiner founded The Mini Farm Project in July 2014.
After doing a permaculture design course and online market gardening course, Nick was off with a number of smaller sites around Brisbane.
Apart from serving those in need, Nick's passion for healthy food, lifestyle and gardening is where his passion for The Mini Farm Project was seeded.
Today with a new working model, nick plans to have a network of charity farms from Brisbane to Cairns reducing food insecurity.