Farm Crawl - Transition Streets Romsey & Veg Action
The first day of May was crisp but sunny, a beautiful day for a farm crawl. Never been on a farm crawl before? Meg Sheehan from Transition Streets Romsey and Veg Action hosted this event as an opportunity to get to know your grower. Meg guided us between farms; first we travelled to Lancefield Edible Garden - a backyard market garden, then Mushrooms Anonymous - a mushroom and heirloom veg farm on 5 acres in the Romsey region, and last stop was Wildwood Organics - a market and veg box farm in Bolinda. All producers grew their delicious veg using organic and regenerative principles. We were hosted at each farm to hear about how these farmers dealt with weeds, how they managed pests, what crops were hard to grow, what crops were easiest and what kind of micro climates they dealt with. All of the farms had some level of trade with local or Melbourne-based restaurants and we heard about how they get their produce to destination as fresh as possible and using little to no plastic waste. It was such an interesting and inspiring morning, we hope to run more in the future.
For more information about Veg Action’s Get to know your grower project see https://veg.mrsg.org.au/ or contact Lucy Campbell veg@mrsg.org.au