Purple Pear Farm

18/10/2024

With a little over a week till the Outdoor Concert we will need to consider cancelling due to lack of numbers. If you are thinking of coming best to get in now. The musos and caterers need some assurance.

Family Friendly Spring Concert and Campfire Session.

17/10/2024

Are you ready for the beginning of, or the next step in, your regenerative journey?

Two days of practical Biodynamics for gardeners and farmers. Beginners and practitioners welcome.

15/10/2024

We will be running a practical Biodynamic weekend or day soon. Interested?
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/1049322089617?aff=oddtdtcreator

11/10/2024

08/10/2024

We’re excited to announce that Purple Pear Farm is now featured on Table’s Regenerative Food and Farming Map! 🌱This map is a treasure trove of businesses dedicated to sustainable and regenerative practices. Check it out and discover amazing local food and farming change makers near you! 👩🏼‍🌾🥕🥖

A map that connects regenerative change makers, ethical funders and conscious humans to change Australia’s food and farming systems.

17/09/2024

So up for this, Bring it on.

Only 2 weeks away! Don't miss Purple Pear Farm's visit to Edgeworth Community Garden this School Holidays 🥕

17/09/2024

Seed Corn
The Economics of Farming
Sunshine Coast, Queensland
26 and 27 November 2024
with economic and monetary historian, Christopher Houghton Budd, PhD.
Macro policy considerations
9:00am Seed Corn: a metaphor
for husbanding capital to safeguard revenue
10:00am Pause
10:30am Land-Lease I
Does land as such have value? Distinguishing between ownership and use of land
12:30am Lunch
2:00pm Land-Lease II
Can we devise
(tax efficient) farm-friendly leases?
3:00pm Pause
3:30pm The Liquidity Challenge
to 5:00pm Keeping the initiative
requires the right kind of liquidity
Wednesday 27th November

Practicable micro responses
9:00am True Pricing
This applies to buying and selling!
10:00am Pause
10:30am Adequate Profit
As internally-generated capital, profit is essential, but what does this mean?
12:30am Lunch
2:00pm Financial Autonomy
The importance of appropriate kinds and amounts of capital
3:00pm Pause
3:30pm Planning is everything!
to 5:00pm The key to maintaining
positive cash flow

Details
When: 26 & 27 November, 2024
Where: School of Arts Hall, 52 Main St, Kin Kin Qld 4571 Times: 9 – 5 each day

Cost: Earlybird $550 After 18th October full price $660
To register please email me at [email protected]
indicating the number registering and I will email you further details with invoice and request for catering requirements.
Call me on 0412 862 823 if you would like more information.

15/09/2024

Can you imagine a world where food is produced with respect for people, animals, and the planet? Is it possible to envision a sustainable alternative to our current industrial food production system, which contributes to biodiversity loss, increases social inequalities, and threatens our well-being?

The industrial food system has long prioritized profit over health and the environment. However, farmers—often the most affected by these challenges—have the power to reshape the future through collective action: the agroecological transition.



Slow Food unites those who believe in this change, from farmers to food artisans and conscious consumers. That’s why we are launching Slow Food Farms, a new global network of farms dedicated to producing good, clean, and fair food rooted in agroecological principles.



Slow Food Farms embody agroecology in action. They are at the forefront of the agroecological transition, working to reshape the future of food systems by promoting sustainability and resilience.

14/09/2024

What is a Slow Food Farm?



A Slow Food Farm follows the principles of agroecology, growing crops or raising animals with respect for the environment, biodiversity, and local communities. These farms are central to resilient local food systems, ensuring farmers are fairly compensated while strengthening local economies.

07/09/2024

I've just pruned my pepino. If you'd like some cuttings of this wonderful perrenial fruiting groundcover send me a message.

02/09/2024

https://events.humanitix.com/composting-and-worm-farms

Composting and Worm Farms workshop. Come along to this free workshop.

28/08/2024

Looking forward to this!!

Composting and Worm Farms workshop. Come along to this free workshop.

25/08/2024

Our PDC starts this weekend. Every second Sunday and every Wednesday afternoon. We can still take another couple of people. If your ready to start your permaculture journey, (and who wouldn't be, with the state of the planet) contact me and we'll book you in.

Purple Pear Farm : Pemaculture in Action Maitland NSW CSA, Permaculture Biodynamics Edu

22/08/2024

Our 3 early peaches have now formed fruits and so I netted them today for fruit fly protection. It looks like a good year this year. The last couple of years were pretty poor with wet weather at the wrong time leaving the fruit go mouldy and last year with the death of our bees and so a lack of pollinators. There has been an abundance of pollinators so far this year. Fingers crossed for a bumper crop.