Petrichor Farm

02/09/2026

🚜👨‍🌾 Mid-week Farm Updates 👨‍🌾🚜

Happy Thursday fine people!

It’s time for mid week updates with a couple of announcements regarding this coming Sunday. It’s a bit of a long one so grab a coffee and strap in!

First and most importantly, we will be donating 30% of all proceeds from this Sunday’s stall to support the Everton Park Community Pantry’s go-fund-me. This has been set up to help raise funding to allow the continued operation of the pantry after Brisbane City Council essentially tried to force its closure. The Pantry has been absolutely pivotal in providing food and necessities to those who need them and would otherwise go without. Nelika and James operate the pantry 24/7, from their own home, and out of the goodness of their hearts. We are proud to continue to support such an important community initiative, even more so in the face of such adversity from the very systems that we pay to support these types of services.
If you’re keen to support them directly you can do so through the link below, otherwise come and grab some beautiful fresh veggies from us this Sunday, after which we will publish our takings publicly with the 30% dedicated to the Pantry outlined.

DONATION LINK -> https://gofund.me/e82036c09

Secondly, and also quite important:
We have secured the services of an additional coffee van to attend on Sundays when our main provider, Alex with Bloom And Bean is unable to attend.
We ‘d like to welcome Stephanie from Banksia & Birch - Coffee Bar to Petrichor Farm. We look forward to working with Stephanie and really appreciate the flexibility, support and community spirit from both of these awesome business owners! 🙏❤️

Right, with the two important announcements sorted - onto the farm updates.

The past week has seen a noticeable change in the weather which means we are on track for spring and summer seasonal veggies. Amongst the usual bed rotations and seeding, we retired some of our cut and come again leafy green crops as some had begun to bolt (go to seed) and others had succumbed to the all to familiar onslaught of aphids. Our recovery crops are underway but may take a couple of weeks to gain full momentum, so we may be a little short on mainly rocket until then.

We are seeing the last of our cauliflower come through. This was a first for us this year (along with the broccoli) and was extremely successful, much to my surprise. We will aim to plant significantly more of both next season. Two items that did not go so well have been Kohlrabi and Purple Sprouting Broccoli. Neither have produced their respective bounties, which is interesting, and I believe can possible be put down to high nitrogen content in the soil promoting leaf growth ahead of anything else. I plan to seek guidance on this and do some experimenting and hopefully will be able to turn those two around next season!

Another new (and challenging) one for us has reared its head in the form of brassica rust, a persistent form of white mould that affects the leaves of the brassica family. You may have seen it already on some of our radish leaves. Despite our best efforts it seems to have spread (spores travel on the wind) and infected most parts of the current grow area. Being persistent it can remain in the soil for a number of years and is very difficult to remove. At the moment it is mainly only the Radish that are affected, and just the leaves. We will continue to monitor its affect, and will make decisions as necessary, but may need to eventually sell our radishes with the tops removed. Ahhh the joys of being a veggie farmer 😂

Speaking of radishes, we will be without these at the stall this week as they are required for next weekend’s Samford Harvest. We will also not have Snow Peas at this weekends stall for the same reason. That being said, we can’t wait for yet another amazing event hosted by Alastair and his team at Alfreshco Catering. It’s going to be an absolutely beautiful weekend as always and we look forward to seeing a full house (or barn should I say) of smiling faces once again 🙂😁
Beetroot!
Beetroot is the other item we are short on currently, however there are several large beds full at various stages of growth so you can expect a return of our famous and well sought after beetroot to the tables soon!

Speaking of tables, this Sunday our market tables will be adorned with:
- Rocket
- Mizuna
- Spinach
- Sorrel
- Mustard Lime
- Cos Lettuce
- Salad Bowl Lettuce
- Butterhead Lettuce
- Bok Choy
- Pak Choy
- Rainbow Chard/Silverbeet
- Golden Chard/Silverbeet
- Ruby Red Chard/Silverbeet
- Chinese Wombok (back this week!)
- Mini Cabbage (new this week!)
- Spring Onions
- Tokyo Turnips
- Carrots
- Cauliflower
- Giant Mustard Leaves
- Mustard Flowers (new this week, great for adding a vibrant crunch to salads and other meals!)
- Cherry Tomatoes
- Basil
- Thyme
- Oregano
- Dill
- Small Leaf Parsley
- Large Leaf Parsley
- Limes
- Cumquats
- Mulberries (new this week!)
- The best honey money can buy from Taroma Raw Honey (we aren’t exaggerating, try it yourself!). Taroma is a couple of doors down from us on Camp Mountain road, so the bees naturally get pollen from our farm!
- and ofcourse our stall wouldn’t be complete without fresh, hot coffee and other treats from our newest co-coffee provider Banksia and Birch! Thankyou Steph! 🙂

NOTE: 30% of all proceeds from this Sunday’s produce stall will be donated to the Everton Park Community Pantry to support the renovations required due to tone-deaf actions by council as well as the ongoing operation of the Pantry.

A quick reminder that all our produce is spray-free, organically grown and entirely from Petrichor Farm. We do not buy anything from wholesale providers. Sunday mornings begin at 2am for harvest and wash, meaning you as our valued customer are receiving our best produce, only an hour or two out of the ground, having travelled a mere 200m to our front gate. We challenge you to find local produce as fresh and that lasts as long in your fridge, (aside from Manorina Farm ofcourse, they have us covered 😉)!

Our farmgate stall is open every Sunday from 7:30am - 10:00am (and if our coffee vans are unable to attend then we may close a little earlier if we sell out), and we accept both cash and card.

A massive thankyou as always to our lovely local community. We are ever so grateful for the support and absolutely love being able to provide fresh, healthy produce for you each week.

Sorry it was a long one this week but there was a bit to get through!
Alas we wish you a solid end to the week, and look forward to seeing you on Sunday Morning!

Ben, Lucy and the Petrichor Farm Team.

30/08/2026

Nelika and James run the Community Pantry at Everton Park. They operate this pantry 24/7 out of the goodness of their hearts, from their own home, to provide food and other consumables to the local community free of charge, much of which is donated by other local people and businesses.

Unfortunately they have recently become victim to the all too familiar rhetoric which is infecting so many small businesses and organisations and have been essentially forced to close by the Brisbane City Council. The Council’s approach to addressing a complaint made by a sad, troubled, selfish individual, is utter garbage and so typical of almost every council these days. It is devoid of all manner of common sense and clearly demonstrates that they do not care an ounce for the wishes and needs of the majority, and instead follow the path of least resistance and just simply say “no”. If we continue to allow and support this rhetoric, we will continue to lose valuable, community minded and led organisations such as the pantry.

James and Nelika, being the incredible people they are, have found a way to continue the operation of the pantry by planning to essentially modify their own house and yard to account for the incorporation of storage and facilities within their fence line. This obviously comes at a cost, so to assist with this, with great encouragement from the community including ourselves, they have set up a go-fund me to assist in raising money for these modifications.

Please consider, if you are able to, donating to this cause, and by doing so know you are not only helping to continue to provide such a valuable service to the community, but also raising a big middle finger to the decisions made by council, and the inconsiderate individual who reported a charity of all things, to them.

As for our own contribution to this cause, we will be donating 30% of everything sold at this coming Sunday’s stall to support the continued operation of the Everton Park Community Pantry as well as any additional donations people wish to make through the stall.

Thankyou so much for all you do James and Nelika, hold your head up high and know that the community is behind you!

Ben and the Petrichor Farm Team.

Hi all, This fundraiser is for the renos required to bring the pantry an… Nelika McDonald needs your support for Everton Park Community Pantry Renos

29/08/2026

🫜🍅🌿🌻 Spray-free Sunday 🌻🌿🍅🫜

Good morning one and all and happy Sunday morning. It’s likely you’re not feeling as sprightly as me this early on a Sunday morning, and that’s perfectly fine, but either way we’d love to see you here at the stall before 10:00am today!

We have a load of freshly harvested, spray free produce, straight from the garden, washed and ready for you to claim.

A glorious thankyou as always to all our customers, both new and returning. We can’t thank you enough for choosing to support locally grown produce and as we continue to work hard to increase our range and volume. We can’t wait to meet and chat with you at our weekly farmgate stall.

From all of us here at Petrichor Farm, we wish you a great end to the weekend and week ahead! 🤝😁

PS. Just a reminder that we will not have the coffee van this week but all things going well should see life saving coffee (especially for me 😂😅) return next week!

29/08/2026

🌿🍅🫜 Spray-free Sunday 🌿🍅🫜

Aaanndddd just like that it’s the weekend again and nearly spray free Sunday here at Petrichor Farm!

Tomorrow morning (Sunday) we will be up early to greet you here at the farm (128 Camp Mountain Road, Samford), from 7:30am - 10:00am, (or until sold out), with a few tables stacked full of freshly harvested, (from 2am Sunday morning), spray free, organically grown, washed and prepared vegetables and beautiful local honey.

We are open every Sunday with truly, locally grown, (all on our farm) seasonal produce that is fresher than almost anywhere else. We will have available:
- Rocket
- Mizuna
- Sorrel
- Spinach
- Mustard Lime
- Giant Mustard Leaves
- Cos Lettuce
- Salad Bowl Lettuce
- Butterhead Lettuce
- Rainbow Chard/Silverbeet
- Golden Chard/Silverbeet
- Spring Onions
- Kale
- Cauliflower
- Radish
- Tokyo Turnips
- Beetroot
- Snow Peas
- Cherry Tomatoes
- Sunflowers
- Basil, Dill, Thyme, Oregano
- Flat leaf Parsley
- Curly leaf Parsley
- Cumquats
- local honey from Taroma Raw Honey - the best money can buy!

** cash and card accepted

** no coffee van this week again sorry. We have organised an alternative coffee supplier who will be attending next week, and anytime our main supplier is unable to attend. More on that to come 🙂

Thankyou to all of those who choose to support local farmers and businesses. We can’t wait to see you bright and early tomorrow morning and otherwise wish you all a bloody good weekend!! 😁🤟

Ben, Lucy and the Petrichor Team.

26/08/2026

🚜👨‍🌾 Mid-week Farm Updates 👨‍🌾🚜

Hope you’re all having a great week!

Work continues rolling on at Petrichor. Pretty standard this week with nothing out of the ordinary rearing its head (but I’ve said it now 🤣😅)

I thought I’d do something a little different this week and tell everyone a little about myself (Ben), considering theres not really any exciting news at the farm this week and as some of you know, my journey to setting up Petrichor has been a little unusual.

My first career was in aviation. For roughly 10 years, in my early twenties, I flew planes and helped manage a charter company up in Katherine in the NT, where I flew around and lived in some very remote places including Gove and Groote Eylandt. We had around 25 aircraft, 20 pilots and transported a few hundred passengers all across the NT and North Queensland every week. Wet season in the territory can be pretty full on and was generally quite a stressful time as a pilot and chief pilot, being responsible for the safety of your fellow pilots and the organisation as a whole. I have countless memories and stories of racing weather, including coordinating 10+ of our own aircraft to evacuate 300+ residents out of one community in the path of a cyclone, a few near misses, nearly getting murdered on two seperate occasions, (turns out pilots become targets for all sorts of reasons in remote NT communities), and plenty of incredible views of the NT from the air that are impossible to capture in just words. I met so many incredible people, including my neighbour (now my beautiful wife hehe) and have so many fond memories of that period of my life. After 10 years, the second half of which I was legally responsible for the operation of entire company, the stress started taking a toll on my mental and later my physical health, to the point where I could no longer fly and had to consider a different career pathway.

Throughout those years many hours were spent waiting at airports, and during this spare time I had decided to feed my interest in computers, programming and application design/development by teaching myself programming. This evolved to the point where I was able to roll it into my second career, working in various roles including wproduct manager in an aviation software company, and a similar role in a mining company. After a few years in these roles full time I found myself dreading spending the entire day stuck inside an office and knew I had to make another change.

I’d grown up on the farm here in Samford and had spent time on remote cattle stations, so always had part of me that loved working/being on the land. Hence Petrichor was born from this yearning of a more balanced lifestyle. I dropped back to 4 days a week at my software job to start setting up the farm. I had no idea what a market garden was, (I had to look it up), and had no idea how to grow organic vegetables at scale. I watched YouTube videos to learn, was steered in the right direction by an awesome fellow farmer, and did and still do learn a huge amount from trial and error. Pretty soon I realised how much I loved working on the farm, and that I simply couldn’t balance the demands of both jobs, so I made the difficult (and scary) decision to resign from my software job, jump, and put everything I had into running the farm. A special thanks here to my beautiful wife who wholeheartedly supported my decision, even though it seemed pretty crazy at the time!

It’s been over 12 months now of building and running Petrichor and whilst it’s certainly challenging at times, I couldn’t be happier. The decisions I’ve made allow me to spend time with our now 10 month old daughter every day, and bring her up in an environment where she can learn how to grow healthy food and look after the land. I have even now been able to devote some time and energy to getting some of my own software and hardware projects off the ground and help build some other software projects and companies with business partners.

So yes, that’s my story so far I guess.

If you’re stuck in a job or career which is seriously affecting your mental and physical health, or you’re on the precipice of whether to go all in on something you’ve created, I say go for it. This life doesn’t reward career loyalty quite like it used to (in my opinion).
Anyway, I hope my story resonates with someone to help facilitate a change, or at the very least has given you something to read for a few minutes in your day 🙂

Ok, enough of me, back to the farm!
This week at our farmgate stall (every Sunday from 7:30am - 10:00am, at 128 Camp Mountain Road, Samford, cash and card accepted) we are aiming to have the following freshly harvested (from 2am Sunday morning), spray free, organically grown produce:
- Rocket
- Mizuna
- Spinach
- Mustard Lime
- Sorrel
- Cos Lettuce
- Salad Bowl Lettuce
- Butterhead Lettuce
- Kale
- Spring Onion
- Rainbow Chard/Silverbeet
- Golden Chard/Silverbeet
- Giant Mustard Leaves
- Radish
- Tokyo Turnips
- Carrots
- Beetroot
- Cherry Tomatoes
- Snow Peas
- Cauliflower
- Basil
- Thyme
- Oregano
- Dill
- Parsley
- Cumquats
- Beautiful Locally produced honey by Taroma Raw Honey

We are in the process of finding a fill in coffee van as our regular one is unable to make it. So hopefully we will have coffee also!

All our produce is grown here on the farm and is truly local produce. You won’t find fresher produce that lasts for weeks in your fridge!

We wouldn’t be here, and I wouldn’t be able to tell my story like I have above without the incredible support from our beautiful community. Thankyou so much to everyone who visits us, especially our regulars. We can’t wait to see you on Sunday and otherwise wish you a smashing end to the week and start to the weekend!

Ben, Lucy and the Petrichor Farm Team

26/08/2026

Morning everyone,
We hope you’re having a great week!

We are seeking a coffee van to fill in at our farmgate stall from 7:30am - 10:00am this Sunday, next Sunday and occasional Sundays, whenever our other provider is unable to attend.

There’s plenty of room for a trailer or van setup, however we do not have power or water on site, so will need to be self sufficient (small generator is fine).

If you’re interested, or know anyone who is, please send us a direct message.

Thankyou, and have a great day!

Ben and Lucy

24/08/2026

Pull up a chair for the last samfordharvest for 2026. A handful of seats remain for Friday, 11th of September. We have a stunning 5 course menu for you and, as ever, the event is BYO. We look forward to being in your company

22/08/2026

UPDATE - SOLD OUT!

🫜🌿☕️ Spray-free Sunday ☕️🌿🫜

Yew we are open and ready to serve all you beautiful people down here at the Petrichor Farmgate stall.

We’ve got a heap of freshly harvested (from 2am), spray free, organically grown veggies and delicious honey from Taroma Raw Honey

We are here every Sunday from 7:30am - 10:00am or until sold out.

Hoping to see you all down here soon!

Have a great weekend and lots of love from the Petrichor Farm Team ❤️

PS. No coffee van this week sorry! Back next week.

22/08/2026

UPDATE - SOLD OUT

🌽🌿🫜🌻 Spray-free Sunday 🌻🫜🌿🌽

Happy Saturday everyone!

Hope you’ve had a great week and a solid start to the weekend!

Tomorrow morning (Sunday) marks our weekly farmgate stall, open from 7:30am - 10:00am (or until sold out) at 128 Camp Mountain Road, Samford.
Each week I get up at 2am Sunday morning and head down to the garden to harvest as much spray-free, organically grown, seasonal fruit and vegetables as I can. Our team then washes them and sets them out at our stall for you to purchase with cash or card.

All our produce is grown here on the farm and is not transported, so you know you are buying truly local produce, (not produce that is being marketed as local but is really just bought from the markets down at Rocklea, and is essentially the same as what you buy from the organic isle in Woolies!!)

Tomorrow morning we will have:
- Rocket
- Mizuna
- Sorrel
- Spinach
- Kale - new this week!
- Mustard Lime Leaves
- Giant Mustard Leaves
- Golden Chard
- Rainbow Chard
- Spring Onions
- Radish
- Turnips
- Beetroot
- Carrots
- Snow Peas
- Cherry Tomatoes
- Corn
- Dill
- Parsley
- Oregano
- Thyme
- Cumquats
- Sunflowers
- Beautiful local honey from Taroma Raw Honey

**sorry no coffee van this week!

Thankyou to all our regular customers and all who choose to support LOCAL farmers!
We love seeing you each week and being able to provide healthy produce for you all.

We hope to see you tomorrow, and otherwise wish you a great weekend!

Ben, Lucy and the Petrichor Farm Team ❤️🙏

20/08/2026

🚜👨‍🌾 Mid-week Farm Updates 👨‍🌾🚜

Updates for this week!

Work has been ticking away on our long term beds this week. A row of Tumeric has already been planted (thankyou to those who donated turmeric roots ❤️🙏), and two rows of secret special potatoes will be going in shortly. These types of potatoes are hard to buy as it is, let alone fresh out of the ground 😉

Heaps of lettuce in the ground, and Chinese Wombok and Mini Cabbage will be available again soon. Prep has begun for the season change with tomato, capsicum and more seeds being propagated this week. We are gearing up for an exciting summer, providing the weather plays ball!

We’ve begun debris clearing along the creek near the farm in preparation for potential flooding come summer time. Clearing fallen trees and noxious climbing vines allows water to flow more freely through which reduces damage to our farm and farms downstream from us. We put whatever we can through our chipper for mulch and compost, and anything else gets cut up for firewood.
Our compost piles are coming along nicely as well. It really is amazing how hot these get, even in winter, with core temps rising upwards of 60 degrees!

Before we get into this weeks stall, we have an important announcement regarding our donation partners Everton Park Community Pantry.
Someone silly (to put it lightly) has taken it upon themselves to report this amazing charity to the council, essentially putting the future of the pantry and everything the team has worked so hard for in jeopardy. They have raised a petition to try and keep the pantry going and open to the public.

https://www.ipetitions.com/p/keep-the-everton-park-community-pantry-open/

Please, if you haven’t already, take a minute to sign it so we can help keep the pantry going.
And if you’re ever thick enough to be thinking about reporting a charity organisation, of all things, to council, take a good hard look at yourself and consider how many people’s lives you might be affecting by doing something outstandingly stupid like that 🤬

This coming Sunday at the stall we hope to have:
- Rocket
- Mizuna
- Mustard Lime
- Giant Mustard Leaves
- Sorrel
- Spinach
- Rainbow Chard
- Golden Chard
- Kale (new this week!)
- Spring Onion
- Radish
- Beetroot
- Tokyo Turnips
- Carrots
- Snow Peas
- Cherry Tomatoes
- Corn
- Basil
- Thyme
- Oregano
- Parsley
- Dill
- Grapefruit
- Cumquats
- Sunflowers
- Fresh local honey from Taroma Raw Honey

**No Bloom and Bean coffee van this week unfortunately**

Thankyou to all our awesome customers who support us each week. We really appreciate you coming to see us on a Sunday and we continue to work hard to bring you fresh, locally grown, spray-free and organically grown fruit and vegetables.

From all of us here at the farm, we wish you all the best for the end of the week, and look forward to seeing you on Sunday!

PS: Our usual photo “airtime” this week has been donated to support the Everton Park Community Pantry’s petition.

Support the Everton Park Community Pantry by urging the Brisbane City Council to find a solution that keeps this vital food resource open. Sign now.