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OUR OBJECTIVES ARE TO …

  • To help secure our food supply by growing vegetables and growing new growers

  • To create jobs in Eurobodalla

  • To serve our community

A TRAINING FARM FOR NEW GROWERS

Stepping Stone Farm is a working market garden in a delightful, fertile valley, 8kms from the centre of Moruya, NSW.

It has been set up with all the infrastructure, tooling, vehicles and machinery needed for a viable market farming business based on organic and regenerative farming practices.

There is a full time mentor/manager with many years experience growing vegetables and teaching aspiring farmers. Currently there is 0.5 Ha under cultivation and the plan is to gradually increase this to 3 Ha over the next few years. Interns will be given the skill set, knowledge and experience needed to both develop a business plan and then implement it. We want to give new farmers a better chance of securing capital and land access, and a better chance to realise their farm business aspirations.

Interested in an Internship? - click here for more information 
Volunteering  - a more informal way to learn about vegetable growing - click here for more information

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS?

  • The average age of farmers in Australia is now over 65
  • Finding agricultural labour is increasingly difficult as more workers are leaving the field than entering it
  • Farming is on the verge of a workforce crisis
  • Only a small percentage of agricultural land in NSW is being used productively
  • There are currently no experiential and practical programs to teach young people how to farm.
  • Stepping Stone Farm will meet a need for practical agricultural learning.
  • We want to remove the barriers to entering an agricultural career.

WHOLESALE AND CATERING

If you are a restaurant or a shop or any sort of wholesaler that is looking for top quality products then we’re here for you.

Please contact manager@steppingstonefarm.com.au

STEPPING STONE FARM PRODUCE

We have a weekly stall at the SAGE Farmers Market.

Our vegetables are also available online at the SAGE eMarket.

A number of restaurants and cafés are now getting weekly deliveries of vegetables and microgreens. Interested Chefs, Restaurateurs and Provendores looking for top quality, freshly picked produce please contact manager@steppingstonefarm.com.au 

Mentor / Manager

Joyce Wilkie currently manages the farm and mentors both the interns and volunteers. Trained as scientists she and Michael Plane changed direction 35 years ago and turned ‘Allsun’, a bush block near Gundaroo, NSW, into a small diverse organic farm selling vegetables, fruit, eggs and pork into Canberra. She is now using her years of experience in production and teaching to turn a grassy paddock, 8 kms out of Moruya, into a viable market garden making sure that the intern and volunteer team members learn as much as possible about the many ways to successfully grow organic vegetables.

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