SAGE'S TEACHING INITIATIVE
To help secure our food supply by growing vegetables and growing new growers
To create jobs in Eurobodalla
To serve our community
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.
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
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
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.
