Tim & Amber Scott Admin GourMAY 2024 We are so lucky to live in this area. There are so many parts of Australia that are 1 trick ponies – beef areas, wine regions, wheat belts. But in the Mary Valley with our fertile soils and climate so... 10 July 2026
Tim & Amber Scott Admin Feed Budgeting Stand still for long enough at the moment and you can just about see the grass growing as you watch. For livestock producers this is a good thing because as the weather cools down that growth will slo... 10 July 2026
Tim & Amber Scott Admin Natural Neighbours We’re into the New Year and with it comes New Year’s resolutions. What’s yours? One of mine is to care less what other people think. I know I’m not alone here, it’s a common one. Most of us do care wh... 10 July 2026
Tim & Amber Scott Admin What’s a Weed Anyway? It was my “Plant Protection” (code for how to kill competitors in monoculture cropping) lecturer at University who first posed this seemingly simple question to a bunch of disinterested, (probably hun... 10 July 2026
Tim & Amber Scott Admin Who Feeds the World? By Tim Scott We all hear that to feed 9 billion humans, the expected world population by 2050, we need to increase food production by 60% from current levels.* A rising population, along with a new pr... 10 July 2026
Tim & Amber Scott Admin Human Regeneration An emerging theme that we have noticed when dealing with farmers on their regenerative journey is how the process regenerates them too. I’ve thought long and hard about this, wondering what it is that... 10 July 2026
Tim & Amber Scott Admin Apples ain’t Apples and Bacon ain’t Bacon We all know on some level that what we eat directly impacts our health and the way we feel. But there is more to it than that. It’s not just what we eat, it’s how what we eat was produced that can imp... 10 July 2026
Tim & Amber Scott Admin Knowing the questions to ask? Last month we talked about greenwashing and how the deliberate misleading of consumers is happening more and more, especially with words like ‘regenerative’ and/or ‘chemical free’. Produce can even be... 10 July 2026
Tim & Amber Scott Admin AGVENTION The thing about being farmers as well as being Farm Store Keepers is that when we consider products and services for the store we think about how we could use them ourselves in our farming operation. ... 10 July 2026
Tim & Amber Scott Admin Greenwashing As the regenerative farming movement gains momentum we are sadly seeing examples of the ‘regenerative’ word being used with no real substance to back it up. This style of marketing even has a name: ‘G... 10 July 2026
Tim & Amber Scott Admin Apex Predators & the Trophic Cascade Evolved over Millenia the predator and prey relationship is at the heart of a thriving natural environment. After wolves were hunted to extinction in the earlier part of the 20th Century, Elk populati... 10 July 2026
Tim & Amber Scott Admin The Rattler Ringer Roadsides, parks, footpaths and utilities are primarily “maintained” using poison. We have become used to seeing large areas around our signposts and guideposts “browned out” prior to roadside mowing ... 10 July 2026
