Join us for a social and networking catch up in Camperdown, Sydney.

Join us for the upcoming Young Farmers Connect field day on the NSW Far South Coast.

Join us for the upcoming Young Farmers Connect - Greater Sydney field day on the NSW Central Coast.
This event is for YFC Members and non-members alike - all welcome!

This will be an interactive morning with heaps of opportunities to share and learn with Alison and Michael from ALAN Foods at Jilliby, and the other attendees.
ALAN Foods, is a small permaculture market garden that produces food that is All Local, All Natural.
They grow everything they sell and aim to provide their local community with access to fresh, nutritious food.
After moving to the Central Coast in 2014 the first addition to the farm was a small flock of chickens which quickly grew to now have a flock of 30-40 chickens. When they purchased the property there were two small overgrown veggie plots. Michael and Alison got to weeding and clearing out the area ready to plant summer veggies, being complete novices at it! Call it beginners’ luck, but they did ok and were soon eating fresh produce from their garden.

Join us for a very special International Women's Day event as we join the international movement and conversation about gender equality and a world free of bias, stereotypes and discrimination for female farmers.

We will take a deep dive into diversity through the lived experience of 4 amazing female farmers, enriched with the published expertise of Dr Lucie Newsome and woven by our fellow change-maker and cherished storyteller Maree Lowes.

Young Farmers Connect have formed a great new partnership with AgWe and we are launching this exciting opportunity with a free webinar to introduce you to the team, to explore and understand the AgWe platform, build your brand confidence and understand your unique value proposition.

Mike and Will have come together to create AgWe; bringing their skills and experience in Agricultural economics and filmmaking with a passion for regenerative agriculture and empowering farmers by helping them to find their authentic voice.

AgWe creates a digital profile for farms to promote their most sustainable farming practices, get recognised for their achievements and rewarded for their environmental work.

They connect farmers with their customers and allow businesses to sustainably source their food and raw material from Australia’s best regenerative, holistic, natural, and sustainable farms.

Find out more and explore the AgWe site : https://www.agwe.com.au/

A unique opportunity to visit and explore Australian small-scale farm tools and technology innovator Curly's Ag Australia !

An opportunity for discussion and demonstration with Curly who will run us through his range of sustainable and innovative products.

Farm walk and field day followed by a vegetarian potluck feast.

"Curly's Ag is an Australian family business that designs, manufactures, and distributes tools and equipment. Our designs solve the daily challenges we face in agriculture to accelerate efficiency and production. At Curly's Ag we believe in a respectful and sustainable approach to farming. Our tools and equipment help you to embrace that. They are designed for minimal disturbance of soil microbiology, for optimal results and efficiency."

After a year of lockdowns and social disconnection let’s get together and celebrate our farming community!

Indulge in catering by Dirty Little Herbivore featuring fabulous local produce supplied by our members, relax to some tunes and enjoy a fire to yarn around into the evening.

Get your hands on the new YFC merch and a copy of The Changing Face of Farming Magazine.

We will have some short presentations by some of our wonderful women who farm featured in The Changing Face of Farming

An opportunity to meet, greet and have a beer together

All welcome - tickets are limited

After a year of lockdowns and social disconnection let’s get together and celebrate our farming community!

Come dance on the new deck at Sporadical City Mushrooms, indulge in catering by the East African sisters, relax to some tunes and enjoy a yarn into the evening.

Get your hands on the new YFC merch and a copy of The Changing Face of Farming Magazine.

An opportunity to meet, greet and have a beer together

All welcome - tickets are limited

What will your ‘fair food future’ look like in 2045, and how will we get there?

We are keen to hear from younger audiences so if you are 18-30 or working in engagement with this demographic get invovled.

You’re invited to take part in a national research study exploring how community food organisations can impact Australia’s future food system.

The growing pressures of climate change - combined with rising hunger levels and food supply chain failures experienced during COVID-19 - illustrate the urgent need to redesign our food system. In light of these challenges, UQ researchers are running a series of workshops with community food actors to discuss their role in future food system transformation and formulate collaborative pathways for action. Together, we will co-create an action plan towards ‘fair food’ for Australia and contribute to national dialogues on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Outputs will be available to the public at fairfoodfutures.com

Ill be helping out with the first session discussion :

1. Youth, Food, and Climate Action

This workshop seeks to imagine a ‘fair food future’ where young people are empowered to define new models of food production, consumption and governance based on improved food and land affordability, skills and mentoring, inclusiveness, diversity, health and wellbeing. Participants are invited to design pathways through which youth voices can shape equitable outcomes at the intersection of climate action and reducing hunger.

This workshop will be presented in partnership with Young Farmers Connect – a national not- for-profit network providing resources, peer support and community for young farmers to farm for the future, supporting the use of regenerative, holistic and sustainable agricultural practices.

Participation includes attendance at 2 x 2 hour sessions, organised around:

1) Scenario building/refining - Monday 29 November, 9.30am - 11.30am 2) Defining action pathways - Wednesday 1 December, 1 –3 pm

Come and join the SEQLD - Young Farmers Connect network for their next field day on a journey of social enterprise on Monday 1 November 2021

This field day will include a farm walk, discussion with our farmer host Arran and Liam who will discuss the community and social enterprise model of farming of Millen Farm and their respective farms onsite.
This is a great opportunity to meet and network with other farmers in the region focused on small scale, regenerative ecological farm systems, as well as hear from experts in complimentary fields.

Millen Farm is a not-for-profit community-based organisation in the Samford Valley, just 30 minutes from the Brisbane CBD. Our aim is to establish a financially and ecologically sustainable urban farming system and then offer a helping hand to others who’d like to do something similar.
It hosts Powerful Owl Permaculture and The Mini Farm Project.

Join us in conversation with Andrew Ward and Rohan Clarke from the Regen Farmers Mutual to better understand how farmers and land owners can access 'Environmental Markets' and benefit from participating in their new Environmental Farm Assessment service.

Come and join the SEQLD - Young Farmers Connect network for their next field day on a journey from the dinner table back to the soil with Mick from Good Harvest Organic Farm : a certified organic farm located in Woombye in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. The team at Good Harvest Organic Farm grow a wide range of fruits and vegetables and are passionate about community, transparency and integrity.

Join us for the upcoming Young Farmers Connect - Northern Rivers field day at Woodland Valley Farm

This event is for YFC Members and non-members alike - all welcome - come and join our community of peer-support

A jam packed day out with heaps of opportunities to learn and explore small farm enterprise and how they manage to turn sustainability into success.

In partnership with Tweed Shire Councils - Sustainability Program we have an amazing opportunity to visit Fabian Fabbro and Jodie Vicaars farm as they explore farming for a healthier, sustainable future and relish the joy of living on the land.

Woodland Valley Farm is a completely off-grid enterprise that also offers amazing value added produce such as duck eggs artisan pasta, sauces inspired by Fabian’s Italian heritage and duck egg custard.

Join us for the upcoming Young Farmers Connect - Mid Coast field day at Limestone Permaculture with Educator and Consultant Brett Cooper and guests Em and Andrew from Yeo Farm

This event is for YFC Members and non-members alike - all welcome - come and join our community of peer-support

A jam packed day out with heaps of opportunities to learn and explore a wide range of small farm enterprise.

In partnership with Young Farmer Business Program we will be focussing on successful business strategy and enterprise opportunities for small scale farms in the region.

Join us for the upcoming Young Farmers Connect - Northern Rivers field day at Red Earth Farmers Fernleigh

This event is for YFC Members and non-members alike - all welcome - come and join our community of peer-support

A jam packed day out with heaps of opportunities to learn and explore a wide range of small farm enterprise.

In partnership with Young Farmer Business Program we will be focussing on successful business strategy and enterprise opportunities for small scale farms in the region.

Neil and Belinda are first generation young farmers that run a successful and dynamic market garden enterprise servicing a number of farmers markets in the region with a wide variety of crops specialising in flowers and bagged salad mix.

Join us for the upcoming Young Farmers Connect - Greater Sydney field day at Epicurean Harvest

They are first generation young farmers growing organic vegetables for Sydney restaurants and local community through their recently launched CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) and part of a global movement to monitor agricultural practice and measure the regeneration of the environment for ecological improvement through the Land to Market - Ecological OutcomeVerification program.

Young Farmers Connect/Future Farmers SA ~ Autumn gathering

We thought it was high time that new, established, emerging and aspiring farmers got together!

We invite you to join us for a catch-up at Helen and Greg Sampson’s property Jagged Crow Farm (https://jaggedcrowfarm.com.au) at Mt Jagged on Sunday 23rd May.

The event will include a farm wander and talk (small-scale beef, lamb and honey production), afternoon tea and chats, followed by a film screening of inspirational soil documentary "Kiss the Ground” (https://kisstheground.com)

Join us for the upcoming Young Farmers Connect - Mid Coast NSW field day at Oxhill Organics

This event is for YFC Members and non-members alike - all welcome - come and join our community of peer-support

An awesome day out with heaps of opportunities to learn and explore a this Certified Organic farm on the Mid North Coast of NSW.

Oxhill Organics is a family farm that produces Certified Organic pasture ranged eggs, Organic Milk, Organic Beef and Organic Compost.

We will hear from Chris and Ann about their regenerative farm business and how the integration of the principles of crop rotation, time control grazing and application of inputs has seen them succeed as a sustainable business that create healthy soils and a diversity of organic products.

Chris will share his experience and talk to the value of diversity as an important part of their sustainability – from the microbiology in our soil, to the diversity of pastures and crops, to the enterprises they run.

Come along for our second ever field day for the Hunter chapter of Young Farmers Connect!

Adam and Jody have been kind enough to have us all out to their regenerative beef farm. Come along for a tour and hang out and have lunch. Bring a plate to share, and probably a chair as well, as well as any questions you have about grazing cattle in a regenerative fashion!

See you there, it's going to be a blast!

An awesome day out with heaps of opportunities to learn and explore a this pasture-based, regenerative farm located in the beautiful Dooralong Valley, Central Coast NSW.

We will hear from Shannon and Kylie who farm in a way that is ecologically enhancive and respects both the animal and its environment and dive deep into the elements that makes their business operation successful.

A jam packed day out with heaps of opportunities to learn and explore a wide range of small farm enterprise.

In partnership with Young Farmer Business Program we will be focussing on successful business strategy and enterprise opportunities for small scale farms in the region.

Join us for a day of farm walks and talks while we continue to develop a community of support, build our regional network and local industry engagement

Bonus discussion with successful Biodynamics Farmer Robbie Hill and owner of Chaffin Creek Farm, Latitude 29 Cafe and Yamba Icecreamery and tour of small Industrial Hemp Farm and research space - Hemp Threads with Hannah and Leon

Come down to visit Farm Raiser for a morning farm tour followed by an option working B and lunch!

Kirsty, Patrick and Charlotte are the young farmers behind the urban Farm Raiser project, a not-for-profit organic vegetable and flower farm located in suburban Bellfield, Melbourne. Farm Raiser is in their first growing season, producing a wide range of crops in which they sell direct through a CSA and farmers markets. Come listen to the team share how they started their journey, how they uniquely partnered with Waratah Special Development School, and the possibilities of urban farming.

Join us next Monday at 7:30 for the continuation of our webinar series exploring the awesome work of young farmers, movers and shakers in local food economies.

FARM RAISER | Farm Raiser

Kirsty, Patrick and Charlotte are the young farmers behind the urban Farm Raiser project, a not-for-profit organic vegetable and flower farm located in suburban Bellfield, Melbourne.

Farm Raiser is in their first growing season, producing a wide range of crops in which they sell direct through a CSA and farmers markets.

Come listen to the team share how they started their journey, how they uniquely partnered with Waratah Special Development School, and the possibilities of urban farming.

Join the Young Farmers Connect - Northern Rivers for the next field day, farm walk and networking event!

Great opportunity to meet and connect with other farmers in the region focussing on small scale, regenerative ecological farm systems.

We will be visiting the teams at Hungry Earth Agroecology and Growing Roots Permaculture to explore their dynamic agroforestry and ecological market garden systems and talk the business of field to fork.

Join us for a farm visit and pot luck lunch to end this slightly crazy year.

Old Inn Road winery do sustainable farming of grapes avoiding synthetics where possible and using regenerative techniques to make their delicious wines. They incorporate best practice into all aspects of their business including sustainable packaging.
They have cattle to supply their own beef needs and are in the process of diversifying to pomegranates, capers and avocado's.

Their passion is to produce good quality wine and run a sustainable farm business earning a comfortable living off the land.

We will be speaking with Jason Cotter who owns and runs Tuerong Farm, a unique business growing and milling heritage, ancient and modern grains on the Mornington Peninsula.

Tuerong Farm has quickly attracted a name for itself as a producer of high-quality flour and supplier to high-end restaurants and bakeries across the Peninsula and Melbourne.

We will be covering topics such as heritage grain varieties, the role of small-scale cereal production and local milling, and how to include grains on your farm.

Instagram: @tuerongfarm

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JOSH ARZT, CERES FAIR FOOD

Josh Arzt is the Produce buyer for CERES Fair Food, an online organic grocer and carbon neutral food delivery service that is helping create more secure local food systems.

As of 2020, CERES Fair Food employs 67 people, with nearly half the workers being new immigrants or people seeking asylum. We will be speaking about the development of the organic movement in Australia, the organic wholesale market, and advice for young growers.