Practices & Outcomes: 'Gleneden Family Farm' Case Study

Meet Rohan and Fiona Morris. Exposed to the environmental implications of conventional farming on Rohan’s family farm, the benefits of organic farming on their health, and the challenges of accessing fresh food in rural areas, Fiona and Rohan decided to grow their own healthy food for their family and local community.
The first year on their new farm was ‘extremely lush and beautiful’. They started with holistic management planning using organic, intensive, multispecies rotational grazing principles that incorporated pigs, chickens, cattle, goats and then sheep. But in their second year, a devastating drought hit. Rohan and Fiona navigated the drought using holistic management planning (intensive rotational-grazing management techniques), as well as support of their customer community and their close group of regenerative farming families. Towards the end of the drought, Fiona and Rohan introduced Natural Sequence Farming works on their property to rehydrate the landscape, and multispecies pasture cropping to improve herd health; and they are impressed with the effect on their land in the last two years.
It was during the drought, having experienced the challenges of marketing and farmers markets, that they made a successful transition to a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model, which was bolstered by their on-farm sales and on-farm camping. They found that once visitors saw the farm, they often asked to join the CSA and were keen to remain connected to the farm.
Looking to the future, Rohan and Fiona are building an abattoir and butchery on their property, as well as seeking to grow their agro-ecological tourism enterprises.
Read more about the Morrises' story: www.soilsforlife.org.au/gleneden
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