The Echo
The Farm ice-cream is available in the Dairy Bails next to the playground and wooden welcome signs. Currently there are two flavours available: Burnt Honey and Davidson plum. Both flavours are made using eggs straight from The Farm and other local ingredients.
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Spice News
Set on 80 acres, The Farm Byron Bay offers a unique paddock to plate experience for those not afraid to get their hands a little dirty. Embark on a behind-the-scenes tour of the farm and gain firsthand knowledge of the destination’s sustainable and ethical farming practices, and get up close and personal with the animals that call the farm home.
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Chic Nomad
Uber cool and endlessly desirable, Byron Bay delivers the goods, whether it’s a chi-chi shop or fabulous stay, and Sibella Court keeps coming back for more.
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UK Daily Mirror
Nick Webster discovers an odd language, romance, ethical farming, iconic sights and finally the elusive ’roo.
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Daily Star UK
If you fancy getting out of the city, a quick flight north gets you to Byron Bay in 1hr 20mins. The 500-mile journey is a nine-hour road trip up the Pacific Highway but most choose to fly on Jet Star – Australia’s budget airline. Your first stop should be The Farm and its Three Blue Ducks restaurant.
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The Dharma Door
Our local hills are brimming with creative, interesting folk. Emma Lane – co-founder of The Farm Byron Bay – is happily one of them. Together with her husband Tom, Emma has helped to create a thriving community of growers, producers, eateries and educators at their idyllic Ewingsdale location.
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Peppermint Magazine
We asked ourselves, ‘How can we create a ripple effect, not just about health and wellbeing, but also getting people excited about farmers and make farming a kind of sexy profession again?’
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The Green Hub
A piglet squeals eager for its morning feed from mother. The chickens scratch beneath the grass in search of bugs our eyes cannot see. A farmer tends to her crop dotted with fresh morning dew. Children gather beneath the macadamia trees foraging for fallen nuts and cracking them open in delight.
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Kidspot
Byron Bay’s appeal is its feathers-in-your-hair sense of playfulness and acceptance that is missing almost everywhere else these days. Want to go to the supermarket in your crochet bikini? We love that! Feel like organising a nude cycle with your friends down the main street? Great idea! Want to open an organic/raw/vegan/gluten-free cafe? We’re already lining up! Need a healing tantric or Kundalini massage? Rebirthing breath sessions? Want to become a Reiki Master or learn how to build a sustainable house? You’ve come to the right place.
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AgriFutures Australia
While quad bikes are largely considered to be the leading cause of on-farm injuries and deaths it was the tractor, which often slips under the farm safety radar, that accounted for more fatalities in 2016.
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The Northern Star
It's 7am and Johnson 'Johno' Hunter, on his first round of the day, walks across the dewy grass to check the cattle enclosure at The Farm .
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The Daily Telegraph
It is supposed to keep vampires away but for everyone else this garlic crop is a magnet. Byron Bay couple Josh and Lynette Dooley have just harvested 500kg of Russian garlic and hope to fetch between $45-55 per kilogram.
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Echo Net Daily
More of The Farm’s space is being used in partnership with local organisations such as Liberation Larder to grow staple vegetables for the community. The space offered has the right infrastructure and irrigation ready to go.
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NBN News
An unusual friendship has blossomed between two farm animals in Byron Bay.
Braveheart the calf was on the brink of death when staff at The Farm nursed him back to health and introduced him to a lamb – the two, becoming star attractions.
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The Northern Star
A Scottish Highland calf saved from death has formed an unlikely friendship with a fellow farm animal – a lamb.
Braveheart was found smothered in ticks and starving after his mum abandoned him but nowadays enjoys the high life at The Farm Byron Bay with his sidekick Silence, the lamb. The unlikely pair are the best of mates and have been inseparable since they were introduced, said the farm’s general manager Johnson Hunter, who was one of the team who found the sick calf.
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Gold Coast Bulletin
BRAVEHEART the calf shares more than just a name with the 13th Century Scottish warrior who died trying to free his homeland from British rule. Like William Wallace, made famous by Mel Gibson in the movie of the same name, Braveheart the calf is a fighter with true Scottish blood. As well he is easily the cutest and fluffiest calf in Byron Bay.
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Your Legacy Project
This interview with Tom and Emma Lane from The Farm Byron Bay sits close to my heart because I am and always will be a country girl. I was born and raised in rural Australia growing up on a sheep and cattle station in Northern NSW. Growing up in outback Australia gave me an extraordinary appreciation for the land, it’s people and their communities. I am delighted to share the work that Emma and Tom are doing with their #legacyproject and I hope that you are inspired by their story, passion, and intention to serve a higher purpose through their daily work.
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The Echo
The Farm’s newly opened wishing well enables Byron visitors to contribute directly to worthwhile local community projects. As The Farm received 500,000 visitors in the past year, the fundraising potential is strong, and 100 per cent of donations will go to the Northern Rivers Community Foundation (NRCF), a body that has channelled almost $1m in donations to the local community since 2004.
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