We are starting the world’s first Sustainable Community Farm™. Our goal is to save endangered plants, animals and trees and grow organic food.
We are looking for younger couples or single people (under 45) who want to walk lightly on the earth on our 200 acre ex-plantation block next to thousands of acres of the tarkine wilderness.
We have small plots of land for lease* to park your off-grid self-contained tiny house/bus or van and grow some food. Plot sizes range from 250m2 to 1200m2 and the leases cost between $50/week and $100/week. To lease land you have to do our Good Heart Living™ (Sustainable Community Farm™) certificate below and undertake ongoing training to join our community.
* A condition of the lease is that the lessee must agree to the rules of the community.
Deposit $200. Terms and Conditions apply. A selection process for the community applies.
Learn how to live in the wilderness, be prepared and have a backup or bolt hole.
Our farm is in a remote area in the mountains 20 minutes to Waratah and as we are in a cool temperate rainforest here it can be cold and wet and can snow. Drivers licence preferred.
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| Rufous wallaby mum and bub |
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| Fairy wren family choosing the best bugs for lunch |
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| Wedge-tailed Eagle hunting here |
Due to the governments unsustainable planning laws you can only live here part-time at the moment but you can lease a plot to park your wagon.
Training:
Everyone that comes here must do our Good Heart Living™ (Sustainable Community Farm™) Certificate which is our basic Backwoods Survival and Self-sufficiency
course for becoming a community member (also called the Grounding course). The course will equip you with some basic skills for living in
the wilderness and start to re-wild your heart for living in nature.
This runs for 2 years and tuition costs $10/week. This makes sure we are all on the same page.
Everyone who is here has to work at
growing food. We are about self-sufficiency and sustainability and
that means we take responsibility for ourselves by growing our own
food and providing our own materials. During the course we expect
that people will do at least 4 hours/day practicing what they have
learned and doing tasks that need doing in the gardens and around the
farm.
Some of the activities you may do include tree
planting, fencing, setting up larger gardens, growing food, seed
saving, plant identification, foraging, wildcrafting, preserving,
crafts, prepping and building animal pens or shelters (depending on
the season).
We
are not with a government approved organic certification body because
the Australian organisations are members of IFOAM which was started
with Rodale which have been funded by the Rockefeller Family Fund
who are the same oil barons behind the ag chemicals and GMO’s. The
rich take both sides. So we are independent and organic and are
starting our own certification label which is not government
approved. Our version of sustainability is also not the UN
sustainable development goals for food "security" which
promotes genetic engineering.
We are remote because
we are then away from GM from the big agribusiness farms and we have
bought land higher up because there are less viruses at a higher
altitude. We are very concerned that there will be dangers using
self-replicating mRNA vaccines on farm animals, pests and weeds to
combat problems caused by poor farming practices from
agribusiness.
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| Potato bed full of spuds |
Must be physically fit and healthy enough to do the work required to grow food. No GM vaccines as we are an organic farm and against genetic engineering.
Our lifestyle is closest to indigenous
peoples and peasants which we see as the most sustainable. We eat
meat - seeing all life as sacred - animals and plants.
We also have some temporary accommodation for rent while studying or building.
Some part-time income may also be available as Tasmanian Mountain Pepper grows naturally on the farm. We also have many other potential income streams available for community members to share in.
No drugs. No dogs (no fences yet and we are looking at having only a few dogs over the whole community). Cats fine if kept in at night. Lots of wildlife.
If you have dreamed of being off-grid
this is a great opportunity.
Please note: we do not do or allow permaculture or regenerative agriculture here and do not work with the government.
We stand independent.
Instructors:
Gavin Edwards (The Self-Sufficient Farmer™) who has over 50 years food growing experience.
Lisa McAndrew (Good Heart Herbalist) is Australia’s first community herbalist.
If
you are interested could you please tell us a bit about yourself by
emailing Lisa and Gavin at Good Heart Farm.
Please contact
goodheartfarm at proton dot me
or ph. 0417 114677 (text is best - if we don't reply please try again. We are on the edge of reception and our messages don't always drop in out here).
Email is the best way of contacting us.
Offer valid until 30jun24.
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| View away from the Tarkine across plantations to Valentines Peak |
