Sudholz
Farm name: They haven’t really had a farm trading name since they went out of the horse breeding business.
Operator’s name: Greg and Sandy Sudholz
Location: 96 Powell Road, Wokalup
Products: Vegetables including pumpkins, beans, peas, tomatoes, cucumbers, spaghetti squash, yakon, sweet potato, rhubarb, garlic, kale, chard, beetroot, jerusalem artichokes
Livestock: Beef cattle
Breeds: Mixed bred cows with a Devon bull
Feed: Kikuyu and ryegrass
Annual production: 20 head of cattle. As for vegetables it depends on the season
Size of the farm: 28 hectares
Vegetation/landscape: Flat, laser levelled as they flood irrigate in the summer months
Farming background: cattle, wheat and sheep
Organic or Biodynamic: Biodynamic, certified with BDRI Demeter
Other activities: retired, formerly a heavy duty plant mechanic
The farm story: Greg worked a wheatbelt farm with his father then worked for Alcoa as a heavy duty plant mechanic for 30 years. At the same time owned 116 hectares at Lake Clifton, Waroona breeding beef cattle and Arab horses. Sold Lake Clifton property in 2006 and purchased current property in Wokalup then retired from Alcoa 2008.
Contact details: PO Box 522, Harvey WA 6220 phone: (08) 97293934