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PrincipleFocus E-mail

PrincipleFocus offers integrated professional services to farms and family businesses across regional Australia. 

Our team includes consultants, accountants, investment advisers, bankers, risk analysts and ag software specialists all working together to ensure prosperity for our clients.

By offering clients the equivalent of a private bank or "family office" solution, we deliver a range and standard of services normally unavailable to smaller business.

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Resource Consulting Services E-mail

Empowering People… The secret behind Australia's best farmers and graziers

RCS is Australia's best known and respected private provider of education, training and consulting services to the agricultural sector. Since its inception more than two decades ago, RCS has built its reputation through its vision for a regenerative Australian agricultural landscape, through its professional focus, and through client success and word-of-mouth.
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Bush Goddess Foods E-mail

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Bush Goddess Foods

Organically Nourishing Souls & Soil

pennieBush Goddess Foods are sourced from growers and farms which are Certified Organic, In-Conversion (to Certified Organic) or operate under a self-accredited certification of Organic principles and practices. 

Healthy soils are the underlying resource for nutritious foods and species-rich landscapes and suppliers for Bush Goddess Foods are selected upon the holistic systems in which they grow quality food in conjunction with ongoing enhancement of their environment.

It is important to know where and how the foods you eat are grown so there is complete assurance they have been raised in a holistic and respectful manner by people who are passionate and proud about how they achieve this.  Suppliers to Bush Goddess Foods prioritise the quality, not the quantity, of their products and we all share the same business philosophy of 'small is beautiful'.

Our abiding priority is to provide high-quality and nutritious foods through environmentally enhancing systems which encourage biodiversity and acknowledges the abundance of Nature. 

For too long, farming methods have been simplifying Nature and complicating the business structures around the growing of food commodities.

It is time to reverse these practices and......simplify the business side by having the shortest possible supply chains and building resilience and abundance into our ecosystems by encouraging diversity and complexity......as Nature originally designed it.

Catering

The Bush Goddess LOVES to source, prepare and share the fabulous foods from their network of passionate producers and cater for all types of events. Keep in mind we can easily provide a complete gluten-free, vegetarian or vegan menu for you....

Some of the excuses for creating an occasion for which we can cater include:

  • Children's birthday parties - delicious, nutritious and fun-foods without synthetic colourings, highly refined sugar and gut-rotting preservatives. We can create or co-ordinate our menus with any themes.
  • Adult's birthday parties - full sit-down dinners, platters, buffets, spit-roasts or cocktail parties - celebrate those birthdays with style and distinction!
  • Working lunches:  We can bring in platters of nutritious finger-foods, tureens of soup, sourdough breads, fruit platters and health-giving teas and coffees;
  • Smokos:  keep the brain-juices lively and creative with fantastic and flavoursome home-made savoury and/or sweet muffins (including gluten-free), biscuits, cakes (think of orange-and-poppyseed-with-orange-mint-syrup.);
  • Family re-unions: what a great idea!  We can organise the complete event for you so you can focus on socialising with your family and we will provide the nourishment;
  • Club breakfasts: Turn an early morning training session into a memorable event with a wholesome Bush Goddess breakfast.  With our portable cooking equipment, we can whip up a feast almost anywhere and we love a challenge!

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Mulloon Creek Natural Farms E-mail

Mulloon Creek Natural Farms

Mulloon Creek Natural Farms is a grazing, cropping and carbon building enterprise covering two farms in close proximity to each other on the Mulloon Creek, east of Canberra. Both properties are organic using the biodynamic system of agriculture and MCNF is a member of the Biological Farmers of Australia (BFA).

Our purpose is to be a diverse, sustainable working role model of excellence for profitable biodynamic production and landscape restoration together with outstanding research and education programmes.

Mulloon Creek Natural Farms has become a centre of learning . Courses in the theory and practice of biodynamic farming are held in liaison with the Biodynamic Education Centre run by Lynette West, a key person in our advisory team.

We already have an education and research programme established with the Australian National University 20 years ago for forestry students who are carrying out experiments and studying developments of the native bush, and we are currently discussing with ANU expanding this to other disciplines.

Our self-funding "events" programme also includes entertainment using an old barn on The Home Farm.  

A key element in our work is the rehydration of our landscape using the principles of Natural Sequence Farming developed and practiced by Peter Andrews.  We have the first National Landcare coordinated demonstration of this work on our creek. It is a model of a cooperative effort between Landcare, the Southern Rivers Catchment Management Authority and us as the landowners.

Our intention is to hold courses on anything and everything that is of interest to you! Some ideas in the pipeline are Beekeeping, Permaculture, Holistic Farming Methods, Health & Wellbeing workshops, Art & Music classes. Email us with your area of interest and we'll see if we can make it happen for you.  

 
Trees for Earth E-mail

 

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Trees for Earth

Matt Kilby - Principal

PO Box 232
BUNGENDORE NSW 2621 
Mobile: 0418 654 231
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www.treesforearth.com.au
 

Trees for Earth - was established and has continued to refine the art of tree planting by expanding on a successful polyculture tree planting strategy and incorporating soil health principles utilising mineral and microbe balancing. As a result, Trees For Earth has developed the unique Plant Pink Tree Planting System that is achieving up to 97% tree survival rates in commercial timber plantations and other nursery and regeneration projects.

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www.treesforearth.com.au - The Plant Pink System

To ensure exceptionally high survival rates of tree seedlings,Trees For Earth recommend the complete Plant Pink Tree Planting System. The 8 steps are below:

Step 1. Identify compaction layers and deep rip appropriatly using a Yeomans plow to open up the soil.
Step 2. Mark out tree spacings according to tree type and habitat goal.
Step 3. Remove all grass using herbicides (with Herbi-SafeTM) within 1m of the planting holes or use heavy mulch.
Step 4. Dig holes deeper than the pot making sure the hole edges are not smooth and at least 300mm round to allow for root expansion.
Step 5. Place 200gms (1 cup) of Tree-StarterTM into the planting hole.
Step 6. Dip tree seedling roots (preferably tube stock) into a Tree-TonicTM solution then plant just covering the root ball, leaving a depression to hold water. Leave a depression aound the tree so it can hold 10L of water. Water in the Tree-TonicTM to limit stress and feed soil biology.
Step 7. Put down a Plant Pink Mulch Weed MatTM and setup a Plant Pink Tree GuardTM. Place dry forest mulch (preferably hay) around the outside of the Tree Guard.
Step 8. After 12 months fertilise each tree with 400g (2 cups) of the Tree-BoosterTM around the drip line to boost growth.

www.treesforearth.com.au - Weed Mat

Visible light can be split into a spectrum of colours. Green leaves absorb light from red fraction to drive photosynthesis. Research has demonstrated that the colour pink reflects and focuses the red fraction, concentrating this photosynthesis energy to enhance plant growth. (Other colours are available on request)

www.treesforearth.com.au - Trees for Earth
Plant Pink Tree GuardsTM - Plant Pink quality tree guards
Plant Pink Hardwood StakesTM - Quality hardwood stakes for the plant pink planting system
Plant Pink Mulch Weed MatsTM - A weed mat that promotes growth and reduces losses
Tree-StarterTM - Organic complete tree nutrition
Tree-BoosterTM - The ultimate tree production booster
Tree-TonicTM - A unique formulation of natural growth promotants to enhance growth as well as aide in stress revovery
Herbi-SafeTM - A herbicide adjuvant to promote beneficial microbe growth
Herbi-SafeTM - A herbicide adjuvant to promote beneficial microbe growth










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