Farm Food Health: Recent Episodes
Nina Meiers: Bimbimbi Farm
A tree change from retirement to becoming a certified organic berry farmers, Nina and her husband Andrew have done just that. Small acreage, no water, no infrastructure, no equipment, nothing, nada, zip, and in a remote location Will it work? The things we've discovered, the people we've met, the mistakes we've made and some surprising facts about farming, food and health. It's a story of true committement or just a bit of crazy.
Welcome to this week's episode, Nina's going to talk today about selling her produce. Well, selling hers anyway.
In this episode, some honest questions to be asked about selling fruit for the upcoming season.
With little or no experience in the farming world, the thoughts about selling must be on the minds of every single farmer.
While some people grow primarily for lifestyle purposes, Nina and her husband are growing for profit, and have selected fruit that is popular with customers but a little challenging at times to grow.
Do you have what it takes to be an organic farmer?
This week's podcast is more about the journey, the personality type and the relationship with your partner that's needed to help this be successful without bruising the egos. Nina shares her personal thoughts as a new organic farmer, based on short experience of going through the organic certification process.
Not everyone is cut out to do the organic route, and that's OK. Nina shares a childhood experience that she reflects back to an experience that taught her patience.
There are a couple of moments where there's a moment of angst, but it's all good. Nina's in a good place at this time of her life.
Over 1,000 people died with another 25,000 permanently disabled and many dying.
How did this happen?
Why you should know your farmer.
The 12 top foods that are common victims to Food Fraud
Download full show notes and view resources here
Buy the book - The Bull About the Beef
Being new to farming, & making the decision to be an organic farmer, I thought I'd share my thoughts with you regarding the the concept of being either organic, conventional or bio dynamic. What's important to you? Do farm practices influence how you buy your food?
I could say each one has it's merits but I'm totally biased towards any type of farming that is at the foremost, ethical and fair to the farmer, enriches the soil and leaves the world in a better place.
This episode is a conversation about those very topics, from the point of view of a new farmer knee deep in the process of becoming a certified organic berry farmer.
I'm working on show notes and videos available at http://www.farmfoodhealth.com.au as time permits. I'm catching up with my editing and pre recorded episodes as I get the hang of this podcasting thing.
An Overview of Organic Awareness Month sharing stats of the industry in Australia, a further discussion on the history of food buying from the thoughts of new Organic Berry farmer - Nina Meiers
While I wanted to also talk about the differences between Organic, Bio Dynamic and Conventional farming, I ran out of time.. Well I could have talked, all day about it but thought it was best to leave until Episode #003.
There are links to downloads of the PDF and I am working on Show notes.
I thought I'd put in a picture of my farm.... an earlier picture I took with my drone.
Welcome to the Farm Food Health Podcast where you can be part of the journey of a small farmer in North East Victoria, Australia going through the organic certification process, growing berries, and starting the journey when most are thinking of retiring.
Along with her husband of 30 years, learn about the land, the lifestyle, the wins and losses experienced by a couple who got out of their comfort zone to follow their dream of becoming organic famers.
This short episode gives you a snippet of what's to come and you're invited to be part of the journey too.
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