growers collective
market garden
Our Farmers are currently busy managing our productive market garden which provides the restaurant and community with a variety of seasonal produce each week.
We believe healthy plants begin with healthy soil. Healthy plants mean less pests and disease. We use the following techniques to keep our soil in the best of health: cover cropping with green manures, crop rotation, mulching, composting, interplanting, animal rotations, and less intensive tilling to maintain soil structure.
our farmers
Greens from the farm
Josh and Lynette Dooley from ‘Greens from The Farm’ have been with us since the beginning. Their produce business now occupies a 1.5-acre plot in the Market Garden.
Making a livelihood growing organic produce wasn’t always on the radar for Josh and Lynette. Josh worked at the Retravision store in Byron Bay for 10 years, while Lynette was a chef from Sydney with time in the kitchen at Icebergs and Bills. She made the move to Byron Bay, where she met Josh and the rest is history! One week after their wedding, Josh and Lynette took their first delivery of seedlings and began planting out at The Farm. They now have two daughters, Lillian and Amelia, who are regular helpers in the Market Garden.
During peak times, Josh and Lynette plant between 3000 and 5000 seedlings a fortnight. They grow salad leaves, herbs, edible flowers, garlic, kale, spinach, rainbow chard, endive Warrigal greens and more.
Growing Roots Permaculture & Living AgroEcology
Growing Roots Permaculture is a collective of growers with a passion for sustainable, creative landscaping. Specialising in food forestry, the team work cohesively with nature to incorporate seasonality and supportive planting techniques to create a diverse and integrative system. Layering plants based on their growth potential, production cycle, seasonality and size creates a dense forested environment with a natural forest feel.
Food forests are intentionally designed and carefully manicured for optimum production and ease of maintenance. Our growers combine food production, education and nursery stock sales to new food gardens and farms. Our tropical food crops offer a diversity of produce, with several varieties of bananas, native and introduced varieties of root and other vegetables such as taro, cassava, ginger, turmeric, tropical fruits, tropical greens and herbs - plus a range of cool-season herbs and vegetables more commonly utilised in European diets. Our Vision is to creatively regenerate degraded agriculture and urban lands and convert them into a diverse, food paradise. Through our primary education offering, 'Living Agroecology' we train and support land managers to grow food and regenerate landscape function with the support of the design methodology and techniques we practice in our allotments at The Farm.
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