The Deep Winter Agrarian Gathering is an annual farmer led forum for agriculturalists producing non-commodity food and fibre in Australia. With a focus on circular or regenerative farming practices and community development this annual meeting of the minds is an opportunity to think big about small scale food production and connect with peers in the field. The fifth Deep Winter was held in Willunga SA in 2019 and organised by Future Farmers SA. This podcast is the nine preorganised sessions held for Deep Winter in 2019.
Kirsten Larsen (Open Food Network) talks about Open Food Network, an open source platform which enables new kinds of supply chains to establish, Michael Wohlstadt talks about how having a diversified sales model works for his business and Hayden Rogers talks about how a simplified sales model worked for his business.
26 Aug 2020
Pastured Eggs – three different capitalisation models
Kat Snoswell (Falkai Farm), Kane VanDierman and Richard Barritt (Riverside Farm) and Liam Brokensha (Splendid Egg) talk about running a pastured egg operation as a stand alone enterprise and as a complementary enterprise for an existing farm business. They talk about getting going and the challenges of different ways of accessing capital.
26 Aug 2020
Up, Down and Around – market gardeners talk scale and viability
Joyce Wilkie (Allsun Farm), John Buter (Heirloom Harvest), Andy Taylor (Ngeringa), Erin O’Callaghan (Rad Growers), Hayden Rogers (Sunlands Farm) and Falani Sofo (Living Earth Farm) talk about the profitability of their small scale, diversified market gardens and when the last time they had a holiday was!
26 Aug 2020
Small Scale Mushroom Farms - two different experiences
Kirstie Jamieson of Beetaloo Gourmet Mushrooms and Michael Taylor of Promirdia Mushrooms talk us through the realities of running a small scale mushroom enterprise. There’s some good discussion around how many kilos of mushrooms you would need to produce per week for starting up an enterprise to really make economic sense.
9 Aug 2020
Local Grain Economies and How to Get There
Emily Salkeld and Chris Duffy of Small World Bakery share their story of starting a bakery and beginning to produce the grain they use on their 80 acre block. They talk about the adventures of sourcing the right types of grain and the challenges of being profitable as a grain producer at a small scale.
9 Aug 2020
Different Sales for Different Scales - Part One
Jenni Mitton (Willunga Farmers Market) speaks about how a successful farmers market can enable farmers to sell direct to customers profitably, David Swain (Fino) talks about finding restaurants which want to buy from farmers directly and what chefs want from their suppliers and Neil Rettalick (The Co-Op Barossa) talk about how to successfully sell to high end, independent supermarkets. Facilitated by Anne-Marie Brookman
26 Nov 2019
Scale and Viability in Regenerative Grazing
Dick Richardson from Grazing Naturally and Tom Bradman from Nomad Farms talk about scale a viability in regenerative grazing. Unfortunately the memory card we used to record the session filled up so the questions cut out at the end but there is still heaps of good material in here!
3 Nov 2019
Scale and Viability for Market Gardeners with James Ward
James Ward from the University of South Australia talks about scale and viability for local food systems, particularly market gardens.
27 Oct 2019
Deep Winter Agrarian Gathering 2019 - Keynote Address with Walter Jehne
Walter Jehne is a former CSIRO Climate Sceintist and Microbiologist and the founder of Healthy Soils Australia and Global Cooling Earth. Here he is at Deep Winter 2019 speaking on soils, water and carbon in Australian regenerative agricultural landscapes. Inspirational stuff!
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