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Aitken Farm
Farm name: Koonkoobing
Operator’s names: Phil & Noela Aitken
Location: Mukinbudin
Production: Grain: Wheat, oats, rye, rye flour, hay, sheep
Livestock: Sheep
Breeds: Merino
Feed: Paddock feed, wheat seconds, hay
Annual production: 40 – 300tn Grain
Size of the farm: 2500 ha
Vegetation/landscape: Mallee, Wadjil, White Gum, Jam, Granite rock outcrop
Organic or Biodynamic: Organic – NASAA Certified
Farming background: 50 years since clearing. Began towards Organic Certification in 2009
Other activities/business:
The farm story: Phil grew up on the family farm where he helped his Dad work the land conventionally. After marrying the girl next door and having three wonderful children, Phil and Noela decided that there had to be a safer, healthier and more viable way to keep doing what they loved – farming. As a family they began their organic certification journey in 2009 and have since sold Organic Rye Flour to a Fremantle bakery and wheat into the local organic market. They run Merino sheep which they have started selling through the Organic & Biodynamic Meat Co-op. They also keep a few milking cows for their own use. They really enjoy farming this way with Gods help, going into the future.
Contact details:
Phil: 0429 435 736
Operator’s names: Phil & Noela Aitken
Location: Mukinbudin
Production: Grain: Wheat, oats, rye, rye flour, hay, sheep
Livestock: Sheep
Breeds: Merino
Feed: Paddock feed, wheat seconds, hay
Annual production: 40 – 300tn Grain
Size of the farm: 2500 ha
Vegetation/landscape: Mallee, Wadjil, White Gum, Jam, Granite rock outcrop
Organic or Biodynamic: Organic – NASAA Certified
Farming background: 50 years since clearing. Began towards Organic Certification in 2009
Other activities/business:
The farm story: Phil grew up on the family farm where he helped his Dad work the land conventionally. After marrying the girl next door and having three wonderful children, Phil and Noela decided that there had to be a safer, healthier and more viable way to keep doing what they loved – farming. As a family they began their organic certification journey in 2009 and have since sold Organic Rye Flour to a Fremantle bakery and wheat into the local organic market. They run Merino sheep which they have started selling through the Organic & Biodynamic Meat Co-op. They also keep a few milking cows for their own use. They really enjoy farming this way with Gods help, going into the future.
Contact details:
Phil: 0429 435 736
Armstrong Farm
Farm name: Seaview
Operator’s names: Ken McGowan and Chris Armstrong
Location: West Binnu
Production: Beginnings of nut production: macadamias, pecans and pistachios. Some seasonal cash crop vegetables that can also be fed off after harvest to goats
Livestock: Goats
Breeds: Boer x feral
Feed: Own hay, pasture
Annual production: 300-400 to start
Size of the farm: 5,000 acres
Vegetation/landscape: Half cleared and rest virgin bush, heavy undulating, bore water and sea views
Organic or Biodynamic: Organic – ACO
Farming background: 11 years organic farming in Carnarvon: bananas, mangos, vegetables
The farm story: After floods in Carnarvon in 2010 and lots of damage to our property including loss of top soil that had taken us 10 years to improve with composting we decided to move to a non flood prone area. Seaview is 30km south of Kalbarri but is a totally different soil type and much cooler climate. Of retirement age we decided on goats, nut trees and some vegetables for an easier life. We are negotiating the sale of a further neighbouring 2500 acres which has summer pasture varieties which will give us greater grazing area for the goats once it is certified.
Contact details:
Ken 0407383136 or Landline/Fax 99366124
Operator’s names: Ken McGowan and Chris Armstrong
Location: West Binnu
Production: Beginnings of nut production: macadamias, pecans and pistachios. Some seasonal cash crop vegetables that can also be fed off after harvest to goats
Livestock: Goats
Breeds: Boer x feral
Feed: Own hay, pasture
Annual production: 300-400 to start
Size of the farm: 5,000 acres
Vegetation/landscape: Half cleared and rest virgin bush, heavy undulating, bore water and sea views
Organic or Biodynamic: Organic – ACO
Farming background: 11 years organic farming in Carnarvon: bananas, mangos, vegetables
The farm story: After floods in Carnarvon in 2010 and lots of damage to our property including loss of top soil that had taken us 10 years to improve with composting we decided to move to a non flood prone area. Seaview is 30km south of Kalbarri but is a totally different soil type and much cooler climate. Of retirement age we decided on goats, nut trees and some vegetables for an easier life. We are negotiating the sale of a further neighbouring 2500 acres which has summer pasture varieties which will give us greater grazing area for the goats once it is certified.
Contact details:
Ken 0407383136 or Landline/Fax 99366124
Boronia Farm
Farm name: Boronia Farm named by previous owner because Boronia grows wild on the farm.
Operator’s names: Barry and Dale Green
Location: 47 William Rd, Donnybrook
Products: Beef and fruit
Livestock: Cattle
Breeds: Angus cross
Annual production: variable but cattle should be up to about 15 this year – we are building up again.
Size of the farm: 160 acres
Vegetation/landscape: 100 acres pasture, 60 acre fenced bushland and swamp, including boronia swamp
Organic or Biodynamic: Organic NASAA certified
Farming background: Both grew up in farming families. Orchard for Barry and sheep and wool for Dale
Other activities/businesses:
Farmstay, Tourist Radio for Barry and his Agritourism, network of small businesses.
The farm story:
Barry and Dale bought the property as a wonderful place to bring up their family. They travelled prior to that and investigated organics in other areas. They really began farming organically in 1990 with the orchard, although they didn’t go down the certification path until later. Part of the reasoning was that they lived there with their young children, and wanted the best environment for them to grow up in.
Contact details:
www.boroniafarm.com.au
08 97317154, dale@boroniafarm.com.au
Operator’s names: Barry and Dale Green
Location: 47 William Rd, Donnybrook
Products: Beef and fruit
Livestock: Cattle
Breeds: Angus cross
Annual production: variable but cattle should be up to about 15 this year – we are building up again.
Size of the farm: 160 acres
Vegetation/landscape: 100 acres pasture, 60 acre fenced bushland and swamp, including boronia swamp
Organic or Biodynamic: Organic NASAA certified
Farming background: Both grew up in farming families. Orchard for Barry and sheep and wool for Dale
Other activities/businesses:
Farmstay, Tourist Radio for Barry and his Agritourism, network of small businesses.
The farm story:
Barry and Dale bought the property as a wonderful place to bring up their family. They travelled prior to that and investigated organics in other areas. They really began farming organically in 1990 with the orchard, although they didn’t go down the certification path until later. Part of the reasoning was that they lived there with their young children, and wanted the best environment for them to grow up in.
Contact details:
www.boroniafarm.com.au
08 97317154, dale@boroniafarm.com.au
Changerup Farm
Farm name: ‘CHANGERUP’ which is the name of the district in the shire of Kojonup
Operator’s names: Phil & Vi, Grantly & Peta and kids Matthew,Rebecca & Jamie MARINONI
Location: 28 km NW of Kojonup
Production: Sheep for meat and wool, oats and olives
Livestock: 2700 grown sheep and 1200 lambs
Breeds: Merino and Merino/Poll Dorset cross
Feed: 100 rolls silage, 100 rolls hay and oats
Annual production: 200 Merino/Poll dorset cross lambs for meat. 250 ton oats
Size of the farm: 1157 ha
Organic or Biodynamic: Organic, certified with NASAA
Farming background: Grantley’s grandfather and his family came from Italy to begin farming in Kojonup in 1900’s; Grantley’s parents took over from him and still work on the farm; currently run by Grantley and Peta; and now their children help on the farm too.
The farm story:
Grantly’s grandfather, Dolf, moved from northern Italy to the farm across the road with his family in the early 1900’s. Dolf took up their farm and cleared the land with other family members. All the clearing was hard manual work using axes to ringbark the trees then burn them down.
Grantly’s parents Phil and Vi continued developing the farm and turned to organics in 1990 after getting disillusioned with artificial fertilisers and chemicals. Phil & Vi still live on the farm and help Grantly & Peta along with their 3 teenage children run the farm. Over the years oat crops have become the main production focus but Grantly’s passion still stays with the merino sheep.
The farm has 2700 sheep of which 1500 are merino ewes which are mated to merino rams to produce lambs for replacement of older sheep and for wool. 200 ewes are mated to Poll Dorset rams to produce lambs for the organic meat market. The remainder of the flock is made up of young sheep and wethers. 240ha is planted to oats each year to produce around 200 rolls of silage and hay for stock feed and 350t of oat seed of which some is sold as organic and the rest retained for stock feed and for seed the following year.
Contact details:
Email: gmarinoni@wn.com.au
Ph: 0898 331250
Operator’s names: Phil & Vi, Grantly & Peta and kids Matthew,Rebecca & Jamie MARINONI
Location: 28 km NW of Kojonup
Production: Sheep for meat and wool, oats and olives
Livestock: 2700 grown sheep and 1200 lambs
Breeds: Merino and Merino/Poll Dorset cross
Feed: 100 rolls silage, 100 rolls hay and oats
Annual production: 200 Merino/Poll dorset cross lambs for meat. 250 ton oats
Size of the farm: 1157 ha
Organic or Biodynamic: Organic, certified with NASAA
Farming background: Grantley’s grandfather and his family came from Italy to begin farming in Kojonup in 1900’s; Grantley’s parents took over from him and still work on the farm; currently run by Grantley and Peta; and now their children help on the farm too.
The farm story:
Grantly’s grandfather, Dolf, moved from northern Italy to the farm across the road with his family in the early 1900’s. Dolf took up their farm and cleared the land with other family members. All the clearing was hard manual work using axes to ringbark the trees then burn them down.
Grantly’s parents Phil and Vi continued developing the farm and turned to organics in 1990 after getting disillusioned with artificial fertilisers and chemicals. Phil & Vi still live on the farm and help Grantly & Peta along with their 3 teenage children run the farm. Over the years oat crops have become the main production focus but Grantly’s passion still stays with the merino sheep.
The farm has 2700 sheep of which 1500 are merino ewes which are mated to merino rams to produce lambs for replacement of older sheep and for wool. 200 ewes are mated to Poll Dorset rams to produce lambs for the organic meat market. The remainder of the flock is made up of young sheep and wethers. 240ha is planted to oats each year to produce around 200 rolls of silage and hay for stock feed and 350t of oat seed of which some is sold as organic and the rest retained for stock feed and for seed the following year.
Contact details:
Email: gmarinoni@wn.com.au
Ph: 0898 331250
Morrell Farm
Farm name: Crystal Brook Farm
Operator’s names: Arthur and Olive Morrell
Location: 264 Morrell Rd Fairbridge WA 6208
Production: Beef, sheep meat and biodynamic preparation BD 500
Livestock: Cattle and meat sheep
Breeds: Short-horn base cows with Angus cross bulls, White Dorper base ewes
Feed: Pasture hay and silage with oats/barley hay and silage
Annual production: 100 beef yearlings, 150 weaner lambs
Size of the farm: 750 Acres
Vegetation/landscape: Gentle undulation on the foot-hills of the Darling Range, tree line shelter breaks line most paddocks, with a wide variety of pasture. 10% natural bush left untouched
Organic or Biodynamic: Biodynamic, certified with BDRI Demeter
Farming background: The Morrell Family have been farming in Pinjarra since the 1920’s.
Other activities/business:
Arthur is a qualified Bowen therapist and has a practice on the farm.
The farm story:
Crystal Brook farm was established in 1945, 8 km North East of Pinjarra on the foothills of the Darling Scarp. A freshwater stream runs through the valley, hence the name “Crystal Brook”. Mr Denzil Morrell (dec.) established the farm from a virgin bush block which was heavily timbered. This development took many years to reach its farming potential.
Being concerned about the pollution of the Peel Estuary due to the run-off from heavy use of fertiliser and chemical residues, the family sought a better way to farm. In 1990 the practices of Biodynamics were adopted. This means artificial fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides, growth enhancements and animal health pharmaceuticals are no longer used.
Arthur, Olive and their family make the Bio-dynamic preparations at Pinjarra which are used by other farmers practising Demeter Biodynamic methods in Western Australia.
Contact details:
email: dkmorrellandco@gmail.com
phone: 08 95311244
Operator’s names: Arthur and Olive Morrell
Location: 264 Morrell Rd Fairbridge WA 6208
Production: Beef, sheep meat and biodynamic preparation BD 500
Livestock: Cattle and meat sheep
Breeds: Short-horn base cows with Angus cross bulls, White Dorper base ewes
Feed: Pasture hay and silage with oats/barley hay and silage
Annual production: 100 beef yearlings, 150 weaner lambs
Size of the farm: 750 Acres
Vegetation/landscape: Gentle undulation on the foot-hills of the Darling Range, tree line shelter breaks line most paddocks, with a wide variety of pasture. 10% natural bush left untouched
Organic or Biodynamic: Biodynamic, certified with BDRI Demeter
Farming background: The Morrell Family have been farming in Pinjarra since the 1920’s.
Other activities/business:
Arthur is a qualified Bowen therapist and has a practice on the farm.
The farm story:
Crystal Brook farm was established in 1945, 8 km North East of Pinjarra on the foothills of the Darling Scarp. A freshwater stream runs through the valley, hence the name “Crystal Brook”. Mr Denzil Morrell (dec.) established the farm from a virgin bush block which was heavily timbered. This development took many years to reach its farming potential.
Being concerned about the pollution of the Peel Estuary due to the run-off from heavy use of fertiliser and chemical residues, the family sought a better way to farm. In 1990 the practices of Biodynamics were adopted. This means artificial fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides, growth enhancements and animal health pharmaceuticals are no longer used.
Arthur, Olive and their family make the Bio-dynamic preparations at Pinjarra which are used by other farmers practising Demeter Biodynamic methods in Western Australia.
Contact details:
email: dkmorrellandco@gmail.com
phone: 08 95311244
Windi Windi Pastoral
Farm name: Windi Windi Pastorals (on account of Richard’s grandmother thinking it was
pretty windy) and Mettlerslake named after a local land mark- Mettlers lake
Operator’s names: Richard Davy
Location: Situated 100 kms east of Albany close to the historical cape Riche. On the spectacular southern coast.
Production: Organic beef, lamb and yabbies
Livestock: Sheep and cattle
Breeds: Sheep: Merino and white Suffolk. Cattle: Angus
Feed: The animals graze on beautiful annual and perennial, predominantly clover, rye grass and kikuyu perennial with many other native grasses. The yabbies do a great job of cleaning the dams of organic matter and whatever the animals leave behind.
Annual production: 1000 lamb and 30 heifers/steers
Size of the farm: 2500 ha
Vegetation/landscape: The farms consisting of nearly 2500 ha (1100 pasture) are holistically run, perinnerial cover, organically fertilized using a range of techniques including biodynamic principles.
Organic or Biodynamic: Organic, certified with ACO
Farming background:
Richard has farmed all his life as he was raised in a dairy farm the other side of Albany.
Other activities/business: Richard’s other passion is writing and photography. He has exhibited since 2000 and wrote a book called the ‘Sympathetic Cow Murderer’ in late 2010. He continues to follow his artistic direction although he now has to share it with another interest called homeopathy which he has started studying full time.
Contact details:
email: rvtdavy@gmail.com
phone: 0427 473 013, 08 9847 3013
pretty windy) and Mettlerslake named after a local land mark- Mettlers lake
Operator’s names: Richard Davy
Location: Situated 100 kms east of Albany close to the historical cape Riche. On the spectacular southern coast.
Production: Organic beef, lamb and yabbies
Livestock: Sheep and cattle
Breeds: Sheep: Merino and white Suffolk. Cattle: Angus
Feed: The animals graze on beautiful annual and perennial, predominantly clover, rye grass and kikuyu perennial with many other native grasses. The yabbies do a great job of cleaning the dams of organic matter and whatever the animals leave behind.
Annual production: 1000 lamb and 30 heifers/steers
Size of the farm: 2500 ha
Vegetation/landscape: The farms consisting of nearly 2500 ha (1100 pasture) are holistically run, perinnerial cover, organically fertilized using a range of techniques including biodynamic principles.
Organic or Biodynamic: Organic, certified with ACO
Farming background:
Richard has farmed all his life as he was raised in a dairy farm the other side of Albany.
Other activities/business: Richard’s other passion is writing and photography. He has exhibited since 2000 and wrote a book called the ‘Sympathetic Cow Murderer’ in late 2010. He continues to follow his artistic direction although he now has to share it with another interest called homeopathy which he has started studying full time.
Contact details:
email: rvtdavy@gmail.com
phone: 0427 473 013, 08 9847 3013
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