From Mamma Marmalade
Farmer's markets provide the opportunity for city folk to support local farmers. Just imagine if you had the chance to visit the farm where your wonderful organic herbs and vegetables are grown. That is just the opportunity we enjoyed when Summit Organics held their recent farm walk. On a chilly winter morning we gathered to listen to Rod and Tania explain how they raise the seedlings nurturing them until it is time to transplant into the fields.
Time to walk up the steep road to where the 6 acres of vegetables are grown. We stop at the compost and soil preparation area for a talk on the importance of getting the growing medium just right, so as to nurture the plants. Strong, healthy plants are more capable of fending off bugs and disease.
Then we saw row after row of gorgeous healthy certified organic vegetables, Carrots, celery, Asian greens, kale, parsley, coriander and more.
To keep their Organic certification is an extremely high labour and dollar investment so let's do our bit to support organic farmers. Click on the link below to find out where they sell their outstanding produce.
And then to top of a great morning we are treated to farm grown Vegetable or Pumpkin Soup washed down with some delicious Lemon Myrtle and ginger cordial.
The farm is a family-owned 338-acre (128 hectare) property, right next to the World Heritage-listed Border Ranges National Park. The vegetable production area is an intensive market garden and utilises approximately six acres.
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