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November 8, 2019 by Desi Achilleos

Honeyhunters Australia at Northey St Organic Farmers Market

Honeyhunters Australia

Simon and Ruth Chatburn have had their Honeyhunters Australia Stall at Northey Street Organic Farmers Market for over 4 years. It’s a family business with their kids Jonathan and Elise, and Elise’s partner Duncan, who often staff the stall on a Sunday with their happy faces. Stall owner and beekeeper Simon Chatburn realized 25 years ago there are many useful beekeeping products from the forests, not only honey, that could help people live in good health and with sustainable lifestyles. Beehive products have been used traditionally worldwide to enhance health and wellness, and their range has top quality beekeeping products for customers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At Northey Street Markets with Jonathan showing off their large jars of raw organic honey, Simon displaying how bees work and his glass window feature for the Apitherapy House!

While some honey companies have been caught out diluting their honey with sugar syrups, at Honeyhunters Australia you can buy top quality organic raw honey in a reusable glass jar. Their honey is seriously delicious. They produce and sell all beehive products including many Eucalyptus honey varieties, Jellybush Honey (Australian Manuka), Honeycomb, Bee Pollen, Bee Bread, Beeswax, Beeswax Wrappers, Propolis, Bee Venom Cream and Natural Skin Care Products, only from beehive ingredients.

Honeyhunters Australia bee hive sites are in National Parks and State Forests in Queensland. They believe retaining the status of organic safeguards the integrity of their products to offer general wellness to their customers. Their products have been audited by B-Qual and are compliant to HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point) and by AUS-QUAL for Certified Organic status since July 2019.

Simon and Ruth have traveled to Germany, Romania, Slovenia and Canada to attend international conferences and workshops to keep abreast of Apitherapy state-of-the-art of beekeeping regularly. They love to share their passions and knowledge on beekeeping with amateur beekeepers and on Apitherapy i.e. using beehive products to enhance wellness with all customers.

 

 

 

 

Apimondia Honey Awards Displays, Ruth and Simon showcasing their products to an International Audience.

They celebrate World Bee Day at the markets and campaign to Save the Bees. Educating the community on why saving bees is important and to stop the manufacturing of fake honey and the use of harmful pesticides and herbicides that harm bee populations.

We are very excited to have the Honeyhunters Australia stall join our monthly Friday Night Market. They will be attending the launch of our Friday Night market on the Summer Solstice, December 20th. Whether you come to our weekly Sunday Organic Market or our Monthly Friday Night Organic Market, go say hello to Ruth or Simon and check out their awesome range of beehive products.

What is better than buying someone a big jar of raw honey for Christmas?

You can find out more about Honeyhunters Australia here:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/honeyhuntersaus/?hl=en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/honeyhunters.australia/
Webpage: honeyhunters.com.au

Filed Under: Organic Farmers Market Tagged With: Bees, organic, organic farmers market

February 8, 2018 by Desi Achilleos

NSCF February E-News

Every month we publish a free newsletter which lets people know what is happening at the farm.

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Filed Under: eNews, Farming, Nursery, Organic Farmers Market, Permaculture Education Tagged With: NSCF, organic, permaculture

December 7, 2017 by Ronni Martin

NSCF Organic Farmers Market stallholder wins award

 

Jean, Laclan and Adrian Tiller with the Best Organic Retailer of the Year Award.

Sherwood Rd Organic Meats is still celebrating their win – Best Organic Retailer 2018 at the Australian Certified Organics Awards in Adelaide last month! One of our regular long-term Organic Farmers Market stallholders, Jean Tiller, said “We wear our “Bud Logo” with pride these days more than ever”.

Market Co-ordinator, Camilla Tulley, interviewed Jean recently:

1) What time are you up on a Sunday?

Our van is loaded Saturday, so 4am – probably considered a sleep-in to others.

2) What’s your fav stall?

COFFEE or any stall that sells caffeine.

3) Favourite market snacks?

Apples from our wonderful neighbour, Di! @charlwoodorganic

4) How many hours do you work a week?

I help out my sister, Amy who co-owns the shop with our dad – Adrian – the Farmer! I alternate with the lovely Lisa – who many would know as the Duck Farmer! I work in disability services during the week.

5) Best thing about Northey Street Organic Farmers Markets?

We have been at Northey Street since 2012 – before we even owned a butcher shop. At the time we sold our Organic Lamb/Hogget/Mutton/Goat delivered direct to doors. So, the best thing for sure is getting to know our amazing CUSTOMERS! We are so lucky to have the nicest, most appreciative shoppers to share a laugh with every Sunday! Also, I get to bring my son Lachy who absolutely loves helping out!

6) Why Organics?

My family (who produce our meats) wouldn’t have it any other way! Dad (Adrian) reacts badly to chemicals and, contrary to what he was taught at Ag College, believes them to be completely unnecessary. Our farm has been Certified Organic for many years – we wouldn’t have it any other way!

Thank you  and Congratulations Jean, Lachlan and Adrian – and rest of The Tiller Family

Sherwood Rd. Organic Meats

Australian Certified Organics

 

 

Filed Under: Organic Farmers Market Tagged With: NSCF, organic, organic farmers market, Organic farming

November 8, 2017 by Desi Achilleos

Permaculture Design Course February 2018

This unique course, delivered over 16 weeks gives you the knowledge and skills to observe and design from the natural patterns to create productive gardens & properties, grow your own food, apply appropriate technologies, learn to use resources wisely, build on living systems and rebuild communities.
For more information and bookings CLICK HERE

 

Filed Under: Permaculture Education Tagged With: #permaculture learning, NSCF, organic, permaculture, Sustainability

November 8, 2017 by Desi Achilleos

November E-News

Every month at the Farm we publish a monthly newsletter to let everyone know what is happening at the Farm.

November E-News Here

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Filed Under: eNews Tagged With: E-news, NSCF, organic, Organic farming, permaculture, Urban Farming

August 5, 2017 by Ronni Martin

Gardening with guilds

By Lydia Blocksidge, City Farm Nursery Co-ordinator

Have you heard the term garden guild or guilding before? If you have, it’s probably been used in the context of agro-forestry and forest gardening, as this is where the concept is most commonly applied. Guilding is a Permaculture technique that recognizes the relationships in nature, especially in a forest system, and applies it to productive garden and orchard spaces.

When I was living and working at Rancho Mastatal, a Sustainability Education Centre and operating permaculture farm in rural Costa Rica, we established and maintained planting guilds throughout our agro-forestry orchards. But don’t be mistaken, you don’t need acres of land to use guilding, it is an incredibly adaptive and useful tool to use anywhere, in any productive garden setting.

In simple terms, a planting guild or garden guild is a harmonious collection of plants comprising two things, primary crop species and secondary support species. The primary species are commonly the food producing plants and the secondary species have functions to support the healthy growth and abundance of the primary food crops. These functions can include pollinator and good bug attracting species such as marigolds and other flowering plants, nitrogen-fixing species such as pigeon pea and pinto peanut, fungal deterrent species such as turmeric and ginger, pest deterrent species such as citronella, erosion control such as vetiver grass and chop and drop species for mulching such as arrowroot.

Guilds can be established in two main ways, either by guilding each single plant in your garden or by guilding the garden as a whole. If guilding each plant individually the primary crop species is usually in the middle of a guilding circle or half circle, with the support species around it. At Rancho Mastatal this method was used in the orchards around young tropical fruit and nut trees. Many of these trees take 10-15 years to start producing food so a healthy start in life is crucial for them. This was a useful method of planting because not only did the guiding circles help to locate the tree seedlings, it was also easy to manage them, with all the materials for healthy growth in one place.

If the entire garden is established as a whole guild, primary crop species are planted throughout the space and support species are interspersed between them. This is a great way to plan the urban garden. Whichever method you choose, the main thing to remember when establishing a guild in your garden is that all you need to do is define two things, your primary crop species and then decide which secondary species are going to support your primary crop. If you have separate garden beds you could choose to grow different primary species in each and different secondary species to support them.


Below are a few examples of urban garden guilds you could use at home.

Primary crop species: Tomatoes

Support species: Beans, Corn and Nasturtium.

Why it works: Tomatoes are heavy nitrogen feeders and beans fix nitrogen in the soil. Nasturtiums attract bees and other beneficial insects and also add color to the garden, as well as creating a ground cover for the soil. And corn provides a natural, food-producing trellis system for the tomatoes and beans, as well as mulch from the husks.

 

 


Primary crop species: Leafy greens

Support species: Oregano, Marigolds, and Carrots

Why it works: Oregano has a strong scent that helps to deter garden pests. It also forms a thick ground cover for the soil. Marigolds provide color and attract pollinators and beneficial insects. And carrots aerate the soil and provide a root crop, utilizing the space more efficiently.

 

 

 


Primary crop species: Broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower and other brassicas

Support species: Land cress, thyme, and garlic

Why it works: Land cress is extremely attractive to common chewing garden pests but it’s also highly toxic to them. So it does two things, keeps chewing pests off your primary crop and naturally eradicates the pests from your garden. It’s also a delicious peppery addition in salads. Thyme attracts pollinators to your garden with its beautiful flowers and it’s a tasty culinary herb. And garlic produces a supplementary crop that uses minimal space while also helping to keep pests out of your garden with its scent.


Guilding your home garden is an extremely effective method to maximize your yield outputs and minimize your labor inputs. It is important to remember when establishing guilds which plants grow well together in terms of water, soil, sunlight and so on. Companion planting guides are a great place to start. From there, consider what you want your primary crop species to be and then decide what support species are going to benefit the primary species, and you, most efficiently.

I always use the permaculture principle every element has multiple functions to determine my support species. For example, nasturtium in example 1 above, provides ground cover for the soil, it attracts pollinators, it’s beautiful and it can be used in the kitchen. Land cress can be used in the kitchen, it eradicates chewing pests and it can form a ground cover over the soil. If you can come up with at least three uses/reasons why you’ve selected the support plants you have, then you’re on the right track!

So who’s ready to start their urban garden guild? The City Farm Nursery has everything to help get you started!

 

Filed Under: Farming, Nursery Tagged With: City Farm Nursery, Gardening, info, organic, permaculture, Useful Information

February 13, 2017 by Mel Marx

Best Organic Farmers Market in inner City Brisbane…

Organic farmers market

If you are passionate about what you eat and want to connect with real farmers that grow your food in the old fashioned way, then the City Farm Organic Farmers Market is the place for you on a Sunday. We pride ourselves on supporting small local farmers and organic growers.

At 4 am in the morning it is a hustle and bustle as the farmers start arriving to bring you the freshest picked produce on offer. The variety is astounding and the atmosphere is fun and eclectic. Customers start arriving at 6 am with many regulars doing their weekly shopping.

There are many stalls with a variety of vegetables, fermented drinks & fruits, jams, raw honey, free-range eggs, cheeses, organic meat and much, much more. For a full list of our stallholders, click here.

Come early and have an organic breakfast at one of our many food vendors, while listening to a busker softly playing in the background. Sit under the Mango tree and simply enjoy the Farm with all its rich history, community spirit and gardens.

Here is what some of our customers say:

‘We LOVE Northey Street markets!!!

Not only can we purchase all of our organic needs, we also start our Sunday with an awesome coffee, breakfast & relax whilst the children can play and create. We LOVE it’

‘We love it, it is the only place in Brisbane to buy top quality organic food and have been coming for 13 years’

This is a market where people connect and know each other, a place where families come and children play freely. So visit us, indulge your senses and tantalize your taste buds in the knowledge that our farmers are passionate about your health and the earth, only using chemical free and organic practices.

The market operates from 6 to 11 am every Sunday. To find us click here

Filed Under: Organic Farmers Market Tagged With: chemical free, farmers, growers, markets, organic, organic certified, organic farmers market

November 24, 2009 by NSCF

Share – The Northey Street City Farm Cookbook

Simply the best, most heartfelt, interesting and useful cookbook you may ever own. Written completely from the heart with sharing in mind!

Share retails for $5 plus $3 per copy postage and handling.

Online purchases can be made from our Ethical Gifts page here.

You can also buy your books  at the City Farm Nursery to save postage costs.

Sample Pages

 

 

Filed Under: Organic Farmers Market Tagged With: Books, bushfood, bushfood recipes, Cookbook, organic, Recipes, Share

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