Fermaculture Farm

19/04/2023

This is our beautiful local festival, family friendly, town friendly , musician friendly and environmentally friendly with a goal of zero waste. This Saturday 22nd it’s on in Candelo

Festival Program!

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The sun is up and so is our festival program!

A FULL DAY of greatness lined up in the park, on the road, and tucked into a few little gems along the way.
��2 stages of music
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A swag of amazing workshops throughout the park
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�1 yellow brick road of interactive art spaces & performance�
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A tucked away Hive of voices�
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Magical play space
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Mind-blowing zero waste wash station/heartbeat of the fest
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DIY screen printing in the old garage�
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Market stalls, food vendors, Cowsnest kitchen, local shops
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Cafe courtyard beats under the autumn stars…��It’s all for YOU!!!!��
Entry by donation!!!!�
(thanks for your generosity❤️)��
Head to our website for more info on everything (updates still happening so roll with us please 👍🏼).��
SEE YOU SATURDAY.�
10am�Welcome To Country.��
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24/09/2022

Cat on a cold tin roof, as much as mick does not like cats he sees a certain beauty and function for them in the dairy. A little bit of fresh milk seems a fair trade for some friendly but aloof apex predators living where grain is stored

20/08/2022

We nurture , we grow, we harvest, we ferment, and we eat the whole animal.

16/03/2022

Fresh organic Quinces just dropped off to the Farm Gate stall . Come and get them for making quince paste and jam or just bake them with a savoury dish eg roast chicken Cowsnest Community Farm

20/12/2020

After such a severe drought and years of bare trees it’s a delight to have the sweet abundance of a fruit harvest- apricots and plums are currently being picked and put under various preservation methods by creative family members (jam, fruit leather, freezing, dehydrating, and just plain eat-em-until-full). I love that my kids get to experience the seasons this way- both the four seasons of the year, plus the macro seasons of drought and abundance. It’s a dance.

19/12/2020

We are rocking the Xmas goodies at the farmgate stall. A customer messaged me from the stall yesterday and asked if we had chilli jam. I said we have plums already picked, and home grown chillis, we will give it a go! .... So limited edition organic chilli jam at the stall today. Plus heaps of other goodies including rum balls, decorated gingerbread cookies, and more zucchini’s freshly picked ♥️

17/12/2020

Don’t you hate it when people post those photos groaning with veges and talk about how they have so many zucchinis they don’t know what to do with them? ....Well here’s mine! Oh well have to make more delicious lacto-fermented pickles..... (2nd photo). Cucumber or zucchini works. Different recipes and techniques though 💚

22/08/2020

New goodies on the stall today. Pot-set kefir yoghurt, and kefir yoghurt with stewed, spiced fruit. Also baby carrots picked today, and organic cinnamon scrolls! Garlic salt and smoked seaweed shakers are stocked up, and you might even find a beautiful hand made smudge stick or magic wand.....💚

18/07/2020

Fresh baby carrots picked today from our market garden are at the farmgate stall. Lettuce too. And the gingerbread cookies and honeycomb are back (the girls have been in the kitchen) plus the kraut shelf is fully stocked. And for those of you who love the wild herb stock it’s back! Local wild harvested greens for your cooking or on toast. Yum. Farmgate stall is 2km out of Candelo on Myrtle Mountain Road.

27/06/2020

After ten years of resisting making sauerkraut and kimchi to sell, instead preferring to teach people how to make their own through fermentation workshops, along came a global pandemic and orders to stay at home. So along with we opened the farmgate stall and the number of people who have sampled our range of vege ferments has been incredible! And not only sampled, but returned to buy again and again. Thanks to our locals and passers-through, who have supported our stall and given me such great feedback on the ferments. Some have been surprised when their kimchi popped out if the bottle when they opened it (it’s very young and full of pep!) and others have loved trying new flavours like the Japanese pickle and the red cabbage/ginger/seaweed ‘power-kraut’. The main reason for my delight is that I know that gut floras everywhere will be relishing this boost, this little kick to help digest food and make the immune system strong. It’s the perfect time to be keeping your body healthy and the lurgies at bay.

It is Saturday- the best day to roll on down to the stall and check out some new goodies. I think most of the beautiful hand-dyed textiles have already sold. But you will find a new range of perfumes, lemons, honeycomb, steak rub, garlic salt, green tomato chutney and watercolour bird postcards. Hope to see you there.

20/06/2020

New at the farmgate stall today - flavoured second ferment milk kefir!! If you want an immune boost this is it. Couldn’t get higher on the diversity of probiotic bacteria scale..... tastes great too- fizzy and tangy. Let me know if you want the recipe.

19/06/2020

Introducing the Steak Shake our new addition to the stall , Use to season your steak (or anything ) at your next BBQ. Made from home grown Chilli and Garlic, plus free catch Smoked Kelp and Aussie Salt. .Made with love and full of goodness.Drop in and test it out.