A radical share-farming model based on custodianship, not ownership
Update: 2022-02-02
Description
This episode explores a share farming model which is radically different.
Food system change-makers Kirsten Larsen and Serenity Hill reveal their ground-breaking
new collaborative farming model and succession plan designed to improve ecological
function, support a diverse range of small-scale businesses, and ensure security of tenure
for emerging farmers. These inspirational farmers in North Eastern Victoria have established
put the family farm in a trust and created an agreement which over 80 years shifts the
equity of their family’s farm into a not-for-profit – conditional on improving ecological
conditions of the land.
Show notes:
- Open Food Network (OFN): Started as an online marketplace to match farmers with eaters which supports collaborative distribution
- OFN as an open-source platform: Working with people in 29 countries to develop platform.
- Model keeps on improving
- Regenerative farming something positive for climate and improving ecosystem but it is so labour intensive. We need solution to this problem
- Trust the collaborative process to bring along people in to solve problems on the farm
- Leasing 400 acres North East Victoria from family (Pukawidgee) and marketing lamb on OFN
- Core issue of young farmers is they need security of tenure and longstanding connection
- Set up a Non-profit with a long-term lease arrangement with a trust over 80 years
- Shift from Land custodianship rather than ownership: improving health should be tied to land custodianship
- Building a succession plan around the condition of improving ecological conditions.
Further resources:
Full story about Kirsten Larsen and Serenity Hill share farming model
Order from Pukawidgee (Warrenbayne Farm Collective)
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