SUMMER SCHOOL - ready to roll! 29th - 30th May 2017 This fantastic annual event brings together growers, experienced and new, and presenters in a feast of discussions on current best practice in local small-scale agriculture! There's a huge wealth of practical information available from expert presenters and the year's best opportunity to meet and learn [...]
Here's the link to the YouTube summary of the 2016 Summer School. Share it round! https://youtu.be/EM7fxYVQilI https://youtu.be/EM7fxYVQilI
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A few weeks ago, Pip Courtney and the ABC Landline TV crew turned up at Dagun Station while we were packing produce to send to the Sunshine coast. Their visit was part of a larger story about the recovery of the Mary Valley now that the properties acquired for the Traveston Crossing Dam are now mostly back [...]
Beef cattle on the property of Mary Valley grazier Glenda Pickersgill. Agriculture’s role as the lifeblood of the Mary Valley will be put under the microscope when a new University of the Sunshine Coast documentary screens at the Dagun Choo Choo Bar on Saturday 28 March at 6.30pm. ‘The Changing Face of Mary’ [...]
Brittany getting ready to plant summer sweet corn Here is another good article produced by the ABC's Marty McArthy when he visited the Skyring farm and spoke to Brittany and her dad Rod about why a teenager would be keen on farming in these tough times for agriculture. Its worth listening to the audio [...]
Brittany Skyring did a great job talking to ABC rural about her small crops operation Marty McArthy, the same ABC reporter that talked garlic with Luke Stacey last week also dropped into Dagun Station and talked to Elaine, Adam, Brittany and Tony while we were all packing orders. The end result ended up on the [...]
Tonight, a few coop members attended the showing of 4 short films produced by MasHumas and RegenAg documenting some aspects of their 2013 study tour of Australian farmers to Central America. Seeing as the Spanish versions of these films are already published on YouTube by MasHumus, I thought people who couldn't attend the screening in the city [...]
During the recent heavy rain that ended the record-breaking hot and dry 2013/2014 summer, Steve Burgess filmed the effect of a few different deep ripping techniques on increasing water infiltration and reducing soil loss. The lessons learnt may be useful to other people setting up new garden areas on their farms. Ripping parallel with the keyline (as described [...]
This is the second part of Peter Young's excellent presentation on horticultural tree crops for small growers in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland/Mary Valley area. This talk was part of the 2014 Summer School held at Kandanga and the depth of directly applicable technical information about variety selection and cultural practices that Peter shares in these [...]
