About us

We (Andrew and Megan) are glad you came here to learn about us.

Together in 2020 we picked up some old wooden barrels from a friend and in the back corner of our suburban rental property we grew our very first crop, potatoes. The seed was sown from that day on with us both amazed at how simple it was, and we still brag about our home-grown gnocchi that we made and enjoyed with Andrew’s parents Russ and Sue.
With our passion ignited for learning all we could on the many different ways to grow it was a perfect match when ‘Biggest Little Farm’ documentary was released in cinemas, we took the family to see it. We knew we wanted to do more and watching this movie where they shared their journey of building better soils and growing better food showed us that it is possible to do if you’re not afraid to put the work in. Just like they did in the documentary we set off in search of our new home and after quite the search and just a tad of disappointment we secured our own patch of earth just west of Brisbane. We were under some delusions when we purchased our forever home, but writing this About Us section right now, it is not at all like what we had pre-planned.

When working with the land, observation is such a big part of regenerating the soil and that takes time. It isn’t what we had envisioned, that is mostly because we didn’t take into account just how much you learn living and working with a patch of land, we have been learning all we can about soil and growing nutrient dense food.
With both of us being childhood educators we thought we had found our perfect place. We continued to work during the week and then came to the farm on the weekends and fixed it up bit by bit. A bit of mowing here, a bit of paint there, some rubbish away to there and that kind of thing. 6 months in and we had begun to build our new house. Nothing too fancy, except the stove,
During the building of our new home, we began planning (sometimes) and executing some planting that we wanted to do. We started a little market garden as well as a home garden, got pigs, chickens, ducks and the kids came with us too.
All this was before some of the biggest rains the state has ever seen. Three times the market garden flooded, we rescued our parents from their caravan down the back of the property, tried to dig some kind of drainage channels all to no avail.
Being the big dreamers that we are, we decided to keep going. We can’t let mother nature beat us. After all we wanted to be farmers. Then came a realisation. We don’t have to beat mother nature; we should work with her. That began our regenerative research that still goes on today.

The animals kept us sane.
Ducks are opinionated, they think that our only purpose in life is to feed them.
Chickens don’t care about anything as long as they can do chickeny things wherever they like. Guinea pigs really don’t care about anything.
Pigs are funny animals. They always tell you that they haven’t been fed in days, yet they were fed that morning (20 minutes ago) and are free to roam in their grass filled pens. Can they kill you? Only if you try to take a piglet off them within the 4 weeks of birthing (hey Megan), otherwise they’re pretty calm as long as you treat them right and are friendly. They love a scratch behind the ears and when they come in for a scratch it can be quite daunting because they are big and piggy.

Come along and help us to spread the word about better options for your body and our planet.
It’s really not that hard.