Village Greens is a team of young farmers passionate about sustainable food production and we need your help to get us started with
growing a diverse range of organic vegetables. We can't do it without you!
We have unique access to prime farming land at the Aldinga Arts Eco-Village in Adelaide’s southern suburbs, and your support will allow
us to purchase essential tools and infrastructure in order to achieve our vision of a productive, organic market garden growing food for our local community.
We have the land, skills, passion and dedication to make this project work, and by supporting us, you are supporting the future of sustainable
farming.
Who are we?
Village Greens consists of Nat Wiseman, Claudia Peoples, Ellie Firns and Lucy Chan. We're passionate, youthful, next generation
farmers who, with your help, can be part of the change the future of farming needs.
We are coming together to share skills, experience, tools and access to land to create a thriving market garden.
Nat learnt how to grow veggies on a market garden scale at
Allsun Farm in NSW.
What will we do?
- Create an abundant productive market garden of 2000m2 (1/2 acre) on land within the Aldinga Arts Eco-Village in the southern outer suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia
- Connect with the local and wider community to provide seasonal, organic, healthy food with food metres not miles
- Use human-scale, efficient tools and techniques to maximise the productive potential of the land
- Promote a viable, attractive and sustainable model of farming to encourage more young people into agriculture, which can be replicated all over the country
- Be a place of learning and sharing through workshops, open days and seasonal events
Why are we doing this?
Agriculture has been taken over by big business and big technology in many parts of the world, and we want to help bring it back to its roots in organic,
human-scale, productive and sustainable systems of food production.
- We want to reclaim a focus on food quality, rather than just quantity which ignores nutrient density and flavour
- We will grow organically in a diversified ecosystem, in contrast to large-scale monocultures which destroy soil and ecological health
- We will sell direct to our local community, to bridge the divide between consumer and producer and provide opportunities to understand where food comes from and how it is grown
- We will champion young farmers. The average age of farmers in Australia is 57, and the next generation of potential farmers is being lost
to more attractive and lucrative careers - we need to revitalise the profession of farming
- We will activate the Aldinga Arts Eco-Village Farm. The farm was planned to have vegetable and other food production since its inception 15 years ago. The time is ripe, the growers are ready, the village is ready and the land
is there ready to be farmed!
Village Greens is part of the growing worldwide movement that is embracing a sustainable agriculture which respects nature and people.
By supporting us you are helping to shift food production towards small farms, using human-scale tools and organic farming techniques and principles,
and away from the farming practices that have created many of the ecological and social problems the world faces today.
We will use intensive, human-scale production methods which work with nature
We will use efficient tools to reduce work and increase productivity
