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Transition Farm – Spring 2015

Robin — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 23:17:48 +0000

A good rainy morning is a wonderful chance to share what has been happening this Spring on the farm. We spent the Winter reflecting on our farm, completing much overdue book work and looking ahead – setting new goals and refining old ones. Crop seeding began in early August and it has been a busy […]

Palate VM – Transition Farm Movies

Peter — Wed, 13 May 2015 12:27:02 +0000

Happy Late Autumn! The storage crops are all harvested and the first storm of the Winter season is raging outside – gale force winds, heavy rains and hail! With tender late season greens tucked under row covers, and the harvest for the deliveries completed yesterday, we can spend the day in the office – catching […]

Summer – December 2014

Peter — Sun, 07 Dec 2014 09:57:27 +0000

Spring is a crazy time of year for a market gardener. The glasshouse is filled with crops. In the case of capsicums, eggplants, leeks, tomatoes and pumpkins, these are our whole crop of the year. We also have successive plantings of broccoli, cabbage, cucumbers, zucchini, lettuce, Asian greens, melons and sweet potatoes all vying for […]

Spring Farm Open Day

Robin — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 08:17:48 +0000

Our next Farm Open Day will be held on Saturday 18th October 2014. The Open Day is a great opportunity to see small scale, sustainable, market gardening, to learn more about Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), and to meet the farmers growing the food – us! Find out about our biodynamic growing practices, what it takes […]

Spring

Robin — Mon, 08 Sep 2014 22:17:14 +0000

Although the official first day of Spring in Victoria is 1 September, Spring comes to our farm in August. Even though the nights are still cold and we have frequent frosts, the green manure crops begin to actively grow again in August, filling the fields with their lush green goodness. We began sowing seeds for […]

Reflections on our CSA

Robin — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 14:54:33 +0000

It has been quite awhile since we sent out a newsletter. I had all the best intentions with many photos sitting on the desktop of my computer. But the time would slip past and the photos would seem out of date. We are nearing the end of our third season as CSA farmers. And with […]

Sunflowers Are Blooming – Farm Tour Saturday 1 February

Robin — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 23:20:39 +0000

With the sunflowers in the pumpkin and zucchini paddock blooming, many corn plantings tasseled and high, field tomatoes starting to ripen, and the bounty of summer vegetable crops, we will be giving a Farm Tour on Saturday, 1 February starting 9:30am. The tour will take between 1 – 1 1/2 hours. If you are interested, […]

One day…

Robin — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:51:11 +0000

Monday was a glorious day! The weather was gorgeous and the farm was filled with us regulars, Peter, John and myself, our current intern Rachel and three volunteers John, Belinda and Meredith. Here is a virtual tour of the farm on harvest day – preparing the New Year’s Eve CSA boxes… Happy New Year! You […]

Why we are a CSA farm…

Peter — Wed, 23 Oct 2013 12:40:31 +0000

As our Spring CSA Season gets underway it seems like a good time to write about what our CSA farm is all about – and what it is not. There are many variations on the models of CSA and numerous explanations of what CSA means… we have included links on our website – but the […]

The long gone month of September

Robin — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 13:58:12 +0000

Spring…It is a very busy time on a vegetable farm. Seeding, Seeding, Seeding, tilling in green manure, spreading compost, glasshouse filled, making and filling soil blocks, planting, and WEEDS!!! I have photos of “What’s growing” from two weeks ago…wanting to share them but…farming and mothering are about all there was time for in September. So […]