2-day Joel Salatin workshop with Taranaki Farm (Central Victoria)
December 2nd - 3rd 2010

After his wildly popular visit to Daylesford as a part of the Daylesford Macedon Produce Harvest Festival in May, Taranaki Farm is pleased to announce Joel Salatin’s return to Australia in Nov/Dec for a series of 2 day workshops touring Australia.

Arguably the world’s most famous farmer, Joel Salatin was recently featured in two newly released food documentaries, Fresh and the Academy Award nominated Food Inc will be hosted by Fusion Farms in Victoria and Tasmania in November/December 2010 as a part of the RegenAG Workshop Series.

After his recent visit to Victoria in May this year, Joel was inundated with press. during his one week visit, he appearing twice on national TV (ABC’s Landline and Channel 9’s Today plus countless national newspaper articles.

Don’t miss these 2-day workshops. Book Early.

Full details and booking instructions on the RegenAG website

Time is rushing towards our next Taranaki Farm workshop. This time we’re privileged to be having visiting USA Holistic Management trainer Kirk Gadzia over to our farm in Central Victoria. This is a workshop you’ll not want to miss!.

Learn all about time-controlled grazing and the role animals can play in farm regeneration. Animals management is a critical element in any permaculture design. Improve your understanding of the benefits animals offer permaculture and skill up on the finer points of pasture management, stock systems design and perennial polyculture development.

This workshop is FarmReady approved, so farmers, their family, land managements and indigenous land managers may be able to attend for free through the federal govenment’s FarmReady scheme. See the website below for details.

Book before July 1st and enjoy the EarlyBird 15% discount!

For Bookings and full details :
http://www.regenag.com/hm

Testimonials

“Kirk has a very practical and positive approach which helped us make immediate changes and motivated us for those changes which will take longer. This training has made all the difference in our family’s operation. We are now in the position of passing on the operation to the next generation and using the skills we have learned to do this in a way that makes sense to everyone involved.”
- Kelly Sidoryk

“Attending Holistic Management training has helped me realize how everything works together in our operation. Our long-term profitability depends on the health of the land.”
- Mark Frasier

“I’ve worked all my life and all over the world to improve land. I didn’t think it was possible until I took the Holistic Management in Practice course. It provided new insights I had completely missed. Since then, we’ve achieved dramatic results. It’s gratifying to see such progress.”
Terry Wheeler

After attending the recent Keyline & Carbon Farming workshop with Darren Doherty and the Compost & Compost Tea workshop with Paul Taylor, Jon Western, a victorian farmer chatted with Stan Falloon about his experience attending these two workshops and how they have transformed his thinking and approach to his farm.

“I’ve never run into anybody like Darren (Doherty) that at the end of those three days I just felt we hadn’t tapped anywhere near all his knowledge.” - Jon Western

To attend any of the workshops in the Regenerative Agriculture Workshop Series (RegenAG), visit www.RegenAG.com

My friends Belinda & Jason Hagan of the The McIvor Landcare Group have arranged for Peter Andrews to speak on Thursday 13th May 2010 (the first night of the Compost & Compost Tea workshop) at the Tooborac Mechanics Institute Hall, Northern Highway Tooborac at 7:30pm.

To attend this presentation, contact Belinda Hagan (0419 422 238)
or Jason Hagan (0428 414 547).
Go to www.mcivorlandcare.org for more details and a flyer for the event.

Darren Doherty and Ben Falloon have been working on the latest effort to make the Yeomans Keyline Plow perform multiple functions as it patterns its way through landscapes. Now we are getting closer to our latest incarnation, The ‘Keyline Super Plow’. The next chapter of the ‘Keyline & Compost’ injection rig chronicled here. This unit exceeds the former design on several fronts; most notably its seeding mechanism and tank capacity. In Darren’s words, “…the ‘Super Plow’ prototype now deep cultivates, injects & sprays compost tea / biofertilisers and sows cocktail / shotgun biological subsoilers and pastoral species all in a single pass.”

Find out more about the upcoming Regenerative Agriculture Workshop Series.

Taranaki Farm hit on the frontpage of the Macedon Ranges Leader newspaper last Tuesday April 13th. Barry Kennedy, the paper’s reporter heard about the Keyline & Carbon Farming Workshop we were running and decided to pay the farm a visit. After walking the farm and talking for over an hour Barry left with the words, “you’ve given me ten stories!”. I didn’t envy his job of distilling the epic span of our conversation but he did a fine job.

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