Seed Freedom Food Festival

Seed Freedom Food Festival

Next weekend: For the love of SEED! The source of all life, and of all our food! <3

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Freshly released, the official Line Up for Seed Freedom Food Festival 2016 ! :) See you there good gardening folk!

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Seed Freedom Food Festival is back! And we will have our Greenseeds NASAA Organic veggie seedlings there in a stall along with dozens of other local, organic stalls and three stages of free workshops and presenters!! And our favourite part of the day - the huge seed swap and food swap! So gather your backyard goodies and saved seeds to bring with you. This Saturday 24 September, 10am - 4pm @ 1 Holland St, (in the Market Shed space) $4 festival entry/children free / workshops all free no booking required! See you there green thumbs! 💚

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Hooray! The creek is flowing on the property again!! I know we've all been grumbling about the rain this winter but we're very grateful for all this water falling on our dry South Australian soil this season. We haven't had to turn the irrigation on for the field beds in over a month! And the farm wolf pack has loved playing in the creek, not to mention the green everywhere, full rainwater tanks & duck and frog symphonies. So let's enjoy winter while it's here and all its seasonal offerings (we have some beautiful broccoli, baby kale and baby spinach going to market at the moment!) It'll be hot and dry again before we know it. #rainappreciationclub

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When you've just gotten the soil tilth real fine for sowing carrot seed and you come back to the bed only to find somebody has taken a lovely stroll through it... That somebody wouldn't happen to be in the top right corner would they??..... 😆

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Harvesting heirloom chilli variety - Joe's Long Cayenne, to save seed from for next year's crop of seedlings. Love their incredible length and shapes - a truly beautiful chilli! And about a milder 4/10 on the hot scale... Ask for your own seedling available at our farmers market stalls again this Spring 🔥

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When the rainbow chard leaves are so big that they double as sun umbrellas ✊ #organic

*Market Announcement* Sorry folk we won't be at Willunga Farmers Market today (9/4/16) as we'll be at the 891 ABC Adelaide ABC Gardeners Market from 8-12:30... With dozens of other gardening stalls - it truly is shopping heaven for any gardener. May see you there? Otherwise we'll be back at Adelaide Showground Farmers Market tomorrow as usual. Keep on growing! 🌱

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Bumper heirloom pumpkin harvest at the farm yesterday in preparation for Adelaide Botanic Gardens #Heirloomweekend this Sat 8th & Sat 9th. Get along to celebrate the beautiful heirloom vegetable 💚 Grew these interesting varietals (including Turks turban, Kakai, chioggia - the unique warty ones) for The Diggers Club display. Such fun, such diversity!

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Our "Maui Purple" heirloom chillis are thriving at the farm. These dark purple, almost black chillis have had a variety of heat ratings from our farm clan - some said a 5, others a 7.5 (on scale to 10) and you should be able to try some and rate for yourself soon at our stall at Willunga Farmers Market and Adelaide Showground Farmers Market 🔥🔥🔥

The day before Seed Freedom Food Festival, this time last week --- harvesting baby spinach, rocket, mustard, salad greens and edible flowers to nourish ourselves for dinner that night. Testament to the journey and lesson in self care that's been reoccurring these last years... Where three years before in the festival's first year, I was SO busy, stressed and overwhelmed I felt I only had time to heat and eat processed canned soup in the month leading up to coordinating this festival (which promoted organic food, local food, homegrown food and seed saving!!) and here I was too busy to eat the food that I was growing organically in abundance just down the road. Well a few years later I'm happy to report that there's a bit more balance and I feel a bit less hypocritical ... it's all a part of the lessons, I remind myself. ✨🌿🌱🌿✨ Capture by soul sister @jack_river

Stella normally eats like a 🐴 at breakfast; but this morning could only manage a piece of vegemite toast as she had to dress up as Bindi for bookweek.. Gorgeous .the poor mite has been so brave puting up with 2 huge chunks of plastic in her mouth to make room for more adult knashers..another 6 months to go. #stronggirl #prouddad #bookweek #ecology #bbcnature

Just read 'A Poem on Hope', by Wendell Berry (💚!) shared by dear seed steward @rowenwhite and wanted to share it on with this shot of our parsley looking magical as it goes to seed and is pollinated by the ants while the ladybirds keep the aphid population down... 🐞 ... It is hard to have hope. It is harder as you grow old, for hope must not depend on feeling good and there’s the dream of loneliness at absolute midnight. You also have withdrawn belief in the present reality of the future, which surely will surprise us, and hope is harder when it cannot come by prediction anymore than by wishing. But stop dithering. The young ask the old to hope. What will you tell them? Tell them at least what you say to yourself. Because we have not made our lives to fit our places, the forests are ruined, the fields, eroded, the streams polluted, the mountains, overturned. Hope then to belong to your place by your own knowledge of what it is that no other place is, and by your...

This gorgeous girl cracking a big smile at our haul of Joe's Long Cayenne heirloom chillis (20-30cm long!) that we harvested for saving seed from for next year's crops. With gloves on (chilli burns!) I cut the seeds out of the chilli flesh and laid them separate & flat on newspaper in a dry, dark, cool spot in the shed (sunlight & heat are seeds' enemies if you want to keep their germination rates high), leaving them to dry there 1-2 weeks depending on weather until you can take a seed between your teeth and it makes a little crack/snap when you bite it, then it's fully dry. Found that taking the seeds out of the chilli increases the chances of their viability next season as they dry better/less chance of mould. Sometimes in the past when I've left chillis for seed to dry whole they'll look groovy on the outside but have opened them and discovered mould inside by the seeds (mould won't always kill your seeds, depends how long it's been there etc) These beauties dried well in the...

When you've just gotten the soil tilth real fine for sowing carrot seed and you come back to the bed only to find somebody has taken a stroll through it... That somebody wouldn't happen to be in the top right corner would they??..... 😆 #farminglife #organicfarmers #sowseed

It's seriously inappropriate to try launch a self-funded Mittelstand ecobiz brand with a focaccia'd starter motor. 40 clams off eBay , delivered. 👍✊. #ecobiz #goethe #Subaru #suburito #startups #greenbiz #innovateorfail #roqubury #roquwood

My love affair with bean seeds goes on... These beauties were grown and saved at Bickleigh Vale Farm after a customer gave us some of her Nonna's borlotti beans that had been saved in Italy for generations and which she brought to Australia when she immigrated here. So we grew the 20 seeds she gave us for one season and they turned into dozens of beans and hundreds of seeds that we could give back to her as well as keep some for us to grow too. Natural multiplication and food abundance! Will keep these littluns dry and safe until Spring when beans will be back in season and then grow and propagate on from there. 🌱ahhh🌱

🔥Fatalii🔥 heirloom chilli variety, growing in abundance at the farm... But beware these guys are suuuuuper hot! Hotter than habanero! I haven't built up the courage yet to try them, soon, soon. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥