RESOURCES AND LINKS
Friendly Farms compiles and curates handy regenerative content – please feel free to go through at your own pace and suggest any additions or amendments 🙂
Farms & Farmers
- Hazelcombe Farm, Totnes Valley, Mudgee, NSW, Australia
- Peter Andrews, Natural Sequence Farming, NSW, Australia
- Stuart Andrews, Tarwyn Park Training and Forage Farms
- Paul Griffiths, Holistic Management Mudgee, Mudgee, NSW, Australia
- Sam Statham and family, Rosnay Organic Vineyard and Orchard, Canowindra, NSW
- Bill Mollison (RIP), Sisters Creek, Tas, Australia
- David Holmgren, Melliodora, Hepburn Springs, Vic, Australia
- Geoff Lawton, The Permaculture Research Institute, The Channon, NSW, Australia
- Nick Ritar & Kirsten Bradley, Milkwood Permaculture, Tas, Australia
- Taranaki Farm, Woodend, Vic, Australia
- Mulloon Institute, Bungendore, NSW, Australia
- Colin Seis, “Winona”, Gulgong, NSW, Australia
- Penny Pyett, Permaculture Sydney Institute, “Banbusia Country Retreat”, St Albans near Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Tass Schmidt, Jamberoo Valley Farm, Jamberoo, NSW, Australia
- Costa Georgiadis, “Gardening Australia” show, ABC TV, NSW, Australia
- Orin Hardy, Kul Kul Farm, Bali, Indonesia
- Dr Vandana Shiva, Navdanya International, India
- Dave Jacke, Edible Forest Gardens, United States
- Joel Salatin, Polyface Farms, United States
- Paul Stamets – see TED Talk “6 ways mushrooms can save the world”, United States
- Ron Finley, Guerilla Gardener, United States
- Sepp and Veronika Holzer, Jennersdorf, Austria
- Josef Holzer, “Krameterhof”, Ramingstein, Austria
- Allan Savory, Zimbabwe, Africa
- Hannah & Anton, Good Life Permaculture, Tasmania, Australia
Experts supporting Regenerative Agriculture
- Dr Christine Jones, Soil Restoration Farming, Soil Ecologist and “Carbon Goddess”, Australia
- Dr Judy Carman, Australia
- Professor Don M Huber, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, USA
- Dr Michelle Perro, Pediatrician, USA
- Dr Michael Antoniou, Molecular Geneticist, London
- Professor Gilles-Eric Séralini, France
Seed savers
- Seed Savers Network (Australia)
- The Diggers Club – buy organic seeds
- Eden organic seeds
- Green Harvest organic seeds
- Navdanya International – Dr Vandana Shiva (India)
- Kew’s Millennium Seedbank (MSB) (United Kingdom)
- Global Crop Diversity Trust and Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Norway (“Doomsday Vault”)
Not for Profits for Seed Freedom and Food Security
- Regeneration International
- Rain For Climate and A New Water Paradigm, Slovakia / Czech Republic
- Holistic Management International
- MADGE (Mothers Are Demystifying Genetic Engineering), Melbourne, Australia
- Gene Ethics, Melbourne, Australia
- GM Free Australia Alliance, Melbourne, Australia
- Sydney Food Fairness Alliance
- Australia Food Sovereignty Alliance – Peoples’ Food Plan
- Safe Food Foundation, Australia
- Earth Open Source, United Kingdom
- Institute for Responsible Technology – Jeffrey Smith
- Navdanya, India
- Seed Freedom
- Permaculture Australia
- Soils for Life, Australia
Courses and workshops
- Sustainable Living Weekends at Hazelcombe Farm, Totnes Valley, Mudgee, Australia
- Tarwyn Park Training, Australia
- The Mulloon Institute, Bungendore, NSW, Australia
- Holistic Management Mudgee, Mudgee, NSW, Australia
- RegenAG – Regenerative Agriculture, Walkamin, Qld, Australia
- David Holmgren, “Melliodora”, Hepburn Springs, Vic, Australia
- Geoff Lawton, The Permaculture Research Institute, The Channon, NSW, Australia
- Nick Ritar & Kirsten Bradley, Milkwood Permaculture, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Penny Pyett, Permaculture Sydney Institute, “Banbusia Country Retreat”, St Albans near Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Dave Jacke, Edible Forest Gardens, United States
- Sepp and Veronika Holzer, Jennersdorf, Austria
- Josef Holzer, “Krameterhof”, Ramingstein, Austria
Law on Farming and Private Land Management in NSW
Biobanking – carbon farming & trading
- NSW Office of Environment & Heritage: Bio-banking – a market based scheme
- Biodiversity Conservation Trust NSW
- Emissions Reduction Fund (Cth)
United Nations
United Nations Decade on Biodiversity: 2011-2020 – Strategic Plan
Advocacy
- Regeneration International
- Seed Freedom, India
- Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance, Australia
- Sydney Food Fairness Alliance
farming enterprises
- Cultivate Farms, Australia – connect Aspiring Farmers, Retiring Farmers and Investors
- ORICOOP, Australia – increasing organic and regenerative land area through collaborative investment
Regenerative Farming methods
- Natural Sequence Farming – Peter Andrews, “Tarwyn Park”, Bylong Valley, NSW, Australia
- Keyline Plan – P A Yeomans, Australia
- Pasture Cropping – Colin Seis, “Winona”, Gulgong, NSW, Australia
- Agroecology – Dr Vandana Shiva – Navdanya International – Dr Vandana Shiva (India) and UN Report reference
- Permaculture: Permaculture Principles
- Biodynamics: Biodynamics Sydney
rehydrating the landSCAPE
- Peter Andrews, Natural Sequence Farming, NSW, Australia
- Rain For Climate and A New Water Paradigm, Slovakia / Czech Republic
- Zach Weiss, Elemental Ecosystems
Books on regeneratiON
- Soil & Health Library – Health begins in the soil…
- “Cows Save the Planet” by Judith D Schwartz
- “Weeds – Guardians of the Soil” by Joseph A Cocannouer
- “Water for Every Farm – Yeomans Keyline Plan” by P A Yeomans
- “Back from the Brink – How Australia’s landscape can be saved” by Peter Andrews, Natural Sequence Farming
- “Permaculture – a Designer’s Manual” by Bill Mollison
- Dr Luigi Palombi, Sydney, Australia – “Gene Cartels – biotech patents in the age of free trade”
Reports supporting regeneratiON
Reports by Navdanya, India:
- “Wealth per Acre” by Dr Vandana Shiva, India
- “Health per Acre – organic solutions to hunger”, Navdanya, 2011
- Seeds of Hope, Seeds of Resilience: How Biodiversity and Agroecology offer Solutions to Climate Change by Growing Living Carbon by Navdanya
- Publications by Seed Freedom, India
- Australia Food Sovereignty Alliance – Peoples’ Food Plan, Australia
- “Save and Grow – A policymaker’s guide to the sustainable intensification of smallholder crop production” by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2011
Inspiring short talks
- “How to fight desertification and reverse climate change” – TED talk by Allan Savory
- “A plea for bees”, TED talk by apiarist Dennis VanEngelsdorp, 2008
- Percy Schmeiser talk re his farm being contaminated by Monsanto’s GMO canola and being sued by Monsanto for breach of patent
- “6 ways mushrooms can save the world, TED talk by Paul Stamets
- “How I fell in love with a fish”, TED talk by Dan Barber
- “A guerilla gardener in South Central LA”, TED talk by Ron Finley
- “What’s wrong with our food system?”, TED talk by 11 year old Birke Baer
- “How food shapes our cities”, TED talk by architect Carolyn Steel
- “How we can eat our landscapes”, TED talk by Pam Warhurst, 2012
- “Save the Locust” – 2010 “Save the Locust” campaign, Victoria
Documentaries and lectures
- “The Future of Food” by Deborah Koons Garcia
- “Health Risks from GMO Foods and Glyphosate-based Herbicides”, talk by Dr Michael Antoniou, Sydney, March 2015
- “Gluten – fad or reality? The health benefits of organic food”, talk by Dr Michelle Perro, Paediatrician, Sydney, March 2015
- “GMOs in our Food, the Herbicide Glyphosate and an Increase in Health Issues”, talk by Zen Honeycutt, March 2015
- “Genetic Roulette” by Jeffrey Smith of the Institute for Responsible Technology
- “Food Matters” by James Colquhoun and Carlo Ledesma
- “Food Inc” by Robert Kenner
- “The Man who Stopped the Desert”, on Yacouba Sawadogo, farmer in Burkina Faso
- “The Rebel Farmer – Permaculture in the Salzburg Alps” – on Sepp Holzer, farmer in Austrian Alps
- “The Economics of Happiness” by Helena Norbert-Hodge
Permaculture groups
Transition Towns and Local Economies
- Transition Network
- Reconomy
- Helena Norbert-Hodge, Local Futures
Friendly Farm Helpers
Order Organic Produce
- Rosnay Organic Vineyard and Orchard, Canowindra, NSW
- Moonacres Farm Kitchen, Wildes Meadow
- Apothēca By Anthia: Premium organic teas, remedies, naturopathy
- Rita’s Farm: Order a Farmgate Box
- Warrah Farmshop, Dural, Sydney, Australia
- Crave Natural with Christine Corner, Mudgee, NSW, Australia
Organic Farmers Markets
- Organic Farmers Markets listing (NSW)
- John at Cambridge Markets, EQ, NSW (Wed mornings)
ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION Projects
- Global Landscapes Forum (GLF)
- Ecoystem Restoration Camps
- Restoring the Central West NSW, TALS Institute