Hungry Earth Agroecology

09/05/2024

Do ? For some people they are the centre of the local food system they rely upon; for big government bodies… are they more than something in the way?? Are bigger and bigger farms the answer?
If you’re a small farmer in Australia you have the opportunity to support further support for small scale farming by taking the 15 minute survey put together by our friends at .farmers.connect
Find the link on their website just google small farms count!

On that note; have you heard that YFC is building its governance structure and capacity for supporting new and young farmers!?! Keep an eye out for them!

07/01/2024

Like all things (and especially “regenerative agriculture”) the adventure is part of a process. We could say that our adventure has finished, but I don’t look at it that way. Rather; it has changed, shifted-gears, transitioned.

Or rather we are transitioning. This process may take a while!

It is these crucial points of flux or change that the world becomes dynamic; it is these points of change where ecological synapse and ecological function comes alive. Relationships build. Relationships close. Relationship form.

If anyone reads this and knows of places/people in the Castlemaine area that could be of beneficial relationship, please let me know. I could use some assistance in my inoculation to the area! I’ve been building my capacity to support soil+plant relationships and economic ones more than I have my human relationships!

Ps. Did you know Australia has actual mountains!?! I didn’t! They’re in Tasmania!

is a of relationships

17/12/2023

What interaction does your food have with the place it comes from?

Travelling around in Australia and now Tasmania I have a bit of unease not knowing the origins of my food. Here in Tassie, consuming Tasmanian food is slightly consoling; knowing some local economic integrity. But only slightly.

Who grew it? On what land? What are their practices? What is the effect of the interaction with the landscape?
I’ve come to the realisation that part of my newfound infatuation with fishing is due to the direct interaction with the source of my food (along with enabling my innate hunter/provider drive).

I know this food was wild and free, and lived in a harmonious interrelationship with its environment.

Where does your food come from???

25/08/2023

Early-bird and Bring-A-Friend Discounts END this Sunday 3/1!

Do you want to have a bountiful, vibrant, regenerative and food-filled garden or orchard?

This workshop will give you the tools and framework to apply ecological regeneration to your garden, orchard and functional landscape.

While we will focus on Syntropic theory as the core framework for managing regenerative processes, we will deliver this while reflecting upon a pragmatic multidisciplinary approach. We will Integrate key lessons and regenerative applications from other schools of thought as well, such as biodynamic, organic, permaculture and scientific perspectives.

The key theme of the workshop will be applying the theory and framework to key areas of practical applications to SAVE YOU MANAGMENT TIME while maximising ecological function.

The aim is not to have a perfect syntropic agroforestry plot, but rather to build your capacity for integrating ecological succession in your plant management.

We aim to inspire and enable you to plant more trees/gardens without creating a daunting workload!

AgroEcology Workshops Possum Creek Workshop When: 8:30am – 5pm Sat 16 & Sun 17 SEPTEMBER Where: Possum Creek, Northern NSW Cost: $440 Early Bird (Ends 3/9); $550 Full Price. Payment plans an option Contact: [email protected] Book Here 2 Person Discount .*Bring a Friend Discount: 2 people ...

25/08/2023

The Syntropic framework is one of our most powerful tools to build regenerative capacity in our gardens and landscapes. To apply this theory to practice is to enliven the indigenous ancestry in us. It is a reframing of thought from linear to ecological. This framework enables us to work with, not against, process and diversity. It enables us to interact more deeply with the land, in a way reminiscent of the way Tyson Yunkaporta speaks to in Sand Talk - that nothing can be understood in isolation; that everything exists ONLY in relationship; and what actually matters is not the individual thing but it's RELATIONSHIPS to everything around it.

The concept of Syntropy recognises that, in fact, life itself performs the exact OPPOSITE function of Entropy (a law of Physics that states that all matter and energy is always dispersing and moving to a less organised and less-concentrated state). Actually life/nature, left to its own devices, perpetually accumulates life-force and nutrient into increasingly greater states of concentration and organisation! But, if we want to save the human-damned planet, we have to get off our asses and integrate with our gardens and landscapes.

In my upcoming offerings I will endeavour to give you as many of my hard earned lessons and tips which apply to building regenerative and productive gardens and landscapes. I'll do this while specifically highlighting the bottlenecks of management time expenditure, and how to use the Syntropic framework not for ecological perfection, but, first and foremost, how to apply this framework to a reduced-management design.

The core biomimicry processes which we can leverage to achieve our regenerative goals are: succession and disturbance.
Any gardener or landscape manager is managing some level of diversity of plants in both space and time. Syntropic methodology gives one the framework to organise and leverage plants, the givers-of-life and foundation of all organised "carbon" on earth, to maximise their regenerative potential.

Designing our gardens, managed landscapes and food production systems (however big or small) to not only achieve, but also accelerate, the function of life-force concentration is the goal!

21/08/2023

Taking applications;
Paid traineeship position position managing and building productive edible landscapes.
Do you want to legitimise your permaculture degree or certification, and/or want to build Syntropic orchard systems and edible landscapes?

Designing edible landscapes is one thing; designing them to not cost you or your client heaps of time in management expenses is another….

If you have some theory and dirt time under your belt, and want to cement your lessons and be paid and mentored to do so, send us a resume and/or email.

Applications close this Sunday the 27th

Must be willing to commit for a minimum of 8 months.
Approx 1.5 days per week. 8 month minimum commitment. $30+ /hr by negotiation on experience.

18/08/2023

In this course I will teach you to ensure your systems, however small or large, are manageable, productive and efficient.

I will highlight the key practical elements of Syntropic Successional Agroforestry theory as they apply to the management realities that you will face.

Why such a focus on efficiency? We don’t have time for inefficiency; the world is burning up and we need to be managing more land regeneratively. Along with that we need more people to be accelerating their learning processes around regenerative land management so we can manage more land in an intimate and regenerative way that also enables us to have time for the other things in our lives!

Whether you have a large garden or acreage to apply this biomimicry as regenerative-land-management, this workshop will give you the tools and framework to accelerate anyones land management capacity, whether beginner or advanced!

See “agroecology workshops” on our website or get in touch for more details.

07/08/2023

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be running a couple workshops over the coming months.

After a decade of farming, in ways which I have always foremost prioritised learning and applications of best practice, I am now ready to share some of the hard earned lessons.

Since partaking in the first Syntropic agroforestry workshops in Australia 6 years ago, I have been applying many of the lessons in ecological succession and bio-mimicry into my working- farm operations and market gardens, which employed many people from its means. I mention this to highlight the necessity to achieve and maintain considerable efficiency and productivity to maintain viability in Australia.

Whether working a functioning farm, one’s backyard, or a client’s edible landscape, there is little time or place for inefficiency when our most precious resource, time, is often limited and/or expensive.

In these workshops I will be applying the Syntropic aka Successional-Agroforestry theory to a workable pragmatic approach for the present Australian paradigm. I will also apply some of the cutting edge soil and plant-physiology science and how it applies to a system designed for regeneration by management and ecological-distribution aka design.

l’ll deliver a practical approach of how to design your own agro-ecosystem, from which you can accelerate and deepen your learnings and capacity further.

Check out our website for more details!

18/07/2023

Lindsey’s always throws (and continues to throw) the best curveball farming questions; ones that really make you think, where the answer lies somewhere within the truth of the ecological nature of things (that is, that matters/things only exist if and how they are in reference to the other matters/things).
When I was mentoring her, her different way of thinking definitely enabled me to deepen my learning on farming matters as well.

I hope we get to farm side by side again one day!

Nowadays she is the market garden manager at and she is often at their stall at the Thursday (Byron) Farmers Market’s

Keep powering on Amiga!

16/07/2023

And then Paul has been working along side us since our very first tree line planting back in 2017! Between then and now he has done many things, including getting back out of a decade or two of neglect and holding the foundation for where it is progressing along to now as director of

Lately he’s been feeding community with some of the sweetest watermelon and corn I’ve ever tasted, while simultaneously learning the unforgiving nature of being a farmer and wholesaling.

Lately he has been spending his spare time washing our organic ginger, which you can reliably find at and .fruitnveg for a great price, as well as in ginger containing products.

Here’s to Paul! Doing all the good things, and sticking at it through the toughest of conditions!