It's a great lifestyle, if a bit labour intensive, and rewarding. We sell our produce through our weekly market stall at the Carseldine market on Saturday morning and Mt Gravatt on Sunday morning. We really enjoy building friendships with our customers, all of whom seem to share our sensibilities about caring for the Earth and eating clean food, ethically raised/grown. Anton and I have been full t
ime farming here for about five years. We have 3 flocks of hens of different ages turning out huge yummy googlies. We rotate their fields through the seasons so they get to enjoy millet, amaranth, sunflowers and lucerne. Each field is shielded by huge tagasaste hedges, which provides shelter from both wind and flying predators. Our girls come to us at 1 day old and are subsequently raised entirely on Kialla organic high protein layer crumble, field crops and compost heaps (providing those micro organisms and bugs they so love). The hens sleep in a mobile shed from sunset to sun-up and are then turned out into their fields all day, only usually returning to their shed for dry feed, water, grit and to lay eggs. We charge $8.50 for a box of 700gm, $9.50 now for 800gm eggs, about $4.50 for bunches of greens and garlic we sell for $40 odd per kilo. We plan to expand our range of vegies, add berries etc...as time and energy allow. Our egg production is overseen by Food Safety Qld and Bio Security Qld. The entire farm is run organically.