Ant Wilson wrote this blogpost about the hostile planning and regulation environment Victorian farmers are dealing with at the moment. Ant is a future farmer who has spent the past year volunteering on a number of different small farms to learn the ropes, with great hope of getting into farming himself. Small scale pastured pig […]
President Tammi Jonas rejects changes to the proposed new planning provisions by the Victorian Government on ABC’s Country Hour
Hear AFSA interim president Tammi Jonas talk about the inappropriateness of the proposed new planning provisions from the Victorian Government’s work on Planning for Sustainable Animal Industries. Listen to the interview here (Interview starts at 31:20)
Victorian Government Welcomes Feedlots and Rejects Free Range Pigs & Poultry
The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) is deeply disappointed at substance of the proposed new planning provisions from the Victorian Government’s work on Planning for Sustainable Animal Industries. Despite our efforts to assist Agriculture Victoria and the relevant ministers in understanding the practical realities of small-scale livestock farmers, the draft graduated controls don’t appear to […]
Joel Salatin at Jonai Farms Event Recap and Next Steps
Over 450 people gathered at Jonai Farms & Meatsmiths in the central highlands of Victoria to hear the high priest of the pasture Joel Salatin (Polyface Farm) wax evangelical about the bizarre world we live in where a local, small-scale family farm is considered ‘risky’ while big industrialised food production hidden from the public eye carries on uninhibited by a perverse regulatory system.
Joel Salatin at Jonai Farms – 26 February 2017!
The world’s most innovative farmer, Joel Salatin is back in Australia! What would our food system look like if small scale regenerative farms were the norm? Find out with renowned American farmer and author Joel Salatin, Costa Georgiadis from ABC’s Gardening Australia and Tammi and Stuart Jonas of Jonai Farms, leaders in the Australian agrarian […]