ABOUT the 100 Acre Farm
We acquired the farm in 2010, the previous owner was running cattle on this farm and cutting hay every year. Since then, we have subdivided the farm into 10 paddocks to rotate giving each paddock the rest it needs.
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In relation to the soils, the nutrients were depleted with soil acidic. Initial recommendation from agronomist were to add fertiliser and lime to improve the soil nutrients, which we performed.
In 2014, soil testing confirmed that the fertilising was not effective and as a result, we stopped chemical fertiliser. We did continue to apply lime every year to focus more on lifting the PH levels in the soil.
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In 2016, due to no improvements to the soil, we commenced researching to understand why the pregnancy % was low, stocks with nutrient deficiency and livestock were presenting some health issues.
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CHANGE WAS NEEDED
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2018 was our tipping point. The farm wasn’t what we wanted it be, and we started thinking about selling it and moving on.
Our goal was to have happy and healthy livestock, because this produce is what our family eats.
When we started learning about regenerative farming and understanding how nature works together, everything started making sense. That is when this farming journey commenced. We have more to learn, looking at our surroundings, observing the plants and soils, interpreting and understanding what they are trying to say to us, seeing the insects and what’s happening in our surroundings.
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This year we started planning and subdividing the farm from 10 paddocks to 24. By doing this, our paddocks have livestock on for a shorter time allowing the grass and soil more time to recover and regenerate.
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Today, we are seeing all our animals happier, healthier, pregnancy has improved, and vet cost reduced. Back to 2011-2015, when we had to drench livestock almost every second month, to today where we do it once a year before lambing. Our soil and grass have been improving every year, we are seeing more insects, birds, wildlife and specially koalas. Our soil microbes are improving with grasses sequestering more carbon through photosynthesis, we do applications of compost, compost extract, and molasses and fish oils as part of our fertilisers to give nutrients to the soil and plants.
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Our farm is holistically managed focusing on improving our soil, to have healthy plants (grasses) which in turn provides healthy livestock.
In spring 2022, we planted 521 native trees, we needed 60 trees to cover our green gas emissions.
we are investing in the future and sequestering CO2 and storing into the soil.
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In Autumn 2023, we will be planting an additional 4000 native trees which will help wildlife, insects, further improve the soil, provide diversity on the farm and do our bit for the planet.
Regenerative Farming
ABOUT the 100 Acre Farm
In Early 2020 we started selling our products directly to the public and not to abattoirs.
This idea started during the Covid19 pandemic. When supermarkets started running out of meat and people started asking us if we had meat to sell. For us selling animals to the abattoir or selling directly to the public didn’t make much of a difference. Our animals are growing in a natural way, natural grass without chemicals, fertilizer, pesticides, herbicide and fungicide. 3 years later we are still selling our products directly to the public, with the knowledge that the product they are buying is naturally grown and fresh from the farm to home. In 2022 we have award with the EOV (Ecological Outcome Verification) certificate. This certificate assure that our farm is Regenerative and Ecologically managed, our soil and pasture are improving, our farm is sustainable and helping the Ecosystem.
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We are focusing on good dense nutrients products, growing naturally, having happy animals with good lives.
Healthy soil means healthy plants, healthy plants means healthy animals and healthy animals means healthy people.
Our Sheep-
We have had three different breeds of sheep but now we have composite ewes from a stud and we are crossing with nudies rams also come from a stud farm. We are focused more on meat production and not so much on wool. Our goal is to have great heavy lambs and quality meat.
Our beef Cattles-
In 2018, when we started this ecological/regenerative farming, we incorporated cattles with the sheep to have more diverse microbes in the soils and have better grass management. We bought Black Angus heifers from a stud and we are crossing with Black Angus stud bulls. This gives us Calves with great genetics and amazing quality beef.
Our chicken (hens)-
At the moment, we have started with Brown Isa hens for egg production, but we are thinking of incorporating other breeds. Our hens are feed with natural grains (without chemicals, hormones or GMO grain) they have access to an ample yard area and access to a paddock with multispecies crop.
