The Farm
Kitchen Farm has started generating under-utilised land in Newenham Estate, into a sustainable productive farm. Underpinned by regenerative and permaculture principles, the farm supplies produce to the Pantry and community and hopes to become a case study for food resilience in new communities.
If you would like to learn more, see our masterplan below.
How are we operating?
Market Garden
We have been undertaking soil preparation of our 3 Acre market garden site to start to regenerate the land over the past 12 months and commenced planting in May 2024. Our garden has a a range of zones including perennial, seasonal, native and mediterranean garden beds. We have recently started harvesting our first crops, and our objective is to provide a sustainable seasonal food source for our café, as well as produce for the local community. We have adopted no-till and spray free practices in the garden and have 30 chooks moving around in chicken tractors to help regenerate the soil.
Read more about the latest activity happening on this site.
Retail Nursery
Our boutique retail nursery, located alongside our cafe, is seasonally based, meaning our plant offering changes as the weather does. Our winter offering includes a selection of native and ornamental plants and resilient garden species, and occasionally edible seedlings if we have spare stock that isn’t being planted in our garden. These plants have been integrated into our courtyard to provide customers with a beautiful dining experience surrounded by nature. As we grow, so will our Nursery, promising more offerings in the future.
If you’re interested in purchasing in bulk, reach out to our team.
Education
Watch this space as from time-to-time we host educational opportunities to help build our communities collective knowledge in natural farming, healthy cooking and gardening practices. Knowledge is power, and so education, including tours, talks from keynote speakers, workshops, school classes, and educational collaborations are available at Kitchen Farm.
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Verge Program
Our neighbours in Newenham are committed to delivering abundantly planted verges with a diverse range of species to create a bio-diverse ecosystem to attract beneficial birds and insects into the environment and create a healthy ecosystem. Kitchen Farm is actively involved in this verge program and has designed and planted thousands of plants throughout the streets of Newenham over the past 2 years. Community verge planting also creates a beautiful environment and fosters community wellbeing.
Green Team
The Green Team was our foundation community collaboration program. The Green Team initiative was designed to enable Community Living Australia’s clients to participate in activities to maximise their engagement with community and learn important social and job-ready skills within a safe and productive work environment. Their contribution is invaluable and has been a win-win for farm and community. Having said this the program requires strong systems and is currently on hold whilst these systems and protocols are further developed to ensure the sustainable growth of the program.
Farm with us
We are looking to collaborate with like-minded farmers who share our values and ethos for natural and holistic farming and who would like to be involved in building a large-scale sustainable circular economy. Within the 8Ha of land available to us in Newenham, we plan on leasing farm plots, and collaborating with experienced practitioners in the space of bee-keeping, market gardening, chicken tractors, cut flowers, compost systems, animal grazing and production and even fruit tree orchards.
We have no limitations to our vision. If you are interested in finding out more please contact us to see how you may play a part.