Banyula

16/10/2026

A lot of what you see at Banyula exists because of the women behind the work.

Nikki, who co-founded Banyula. Leah, who connects the dots across the project and supports both our on-ground team and management, so everyone can do their best work out on country. And Carly, who manages our finger lime and Davidson plum orchards, from seasonal planning and plant health to harvest, running small trials along the way to solve problems and improve the orchard.

Different roles, one shared commitment to the land and its future.

Today, on the International Day of Rural Women, we’re celebrating the women who help shape Banyula, and all the women keeping farms, families and rural communities thriving.
Tag a rural woman who deserves a shout-out today. 👇

14/10/2026

Spring flush is on.

Longer days and warmer soil mean the grass is growing faster than at any other time of year. So the cattle are moving more often too.

They graze a paddock for a short time, then it gets a proper rest. Leaving cover behind keeps the soil shaded and the roots growing, and that’s what brings the pasture back stronger.

Simple idea. Lots of gates.

LivingClassroom

13/10/2026

The night before our field day, head to Pearces Creek Hall for a screening of Rehydrate Australia 🌏

A film about how farmers across Australia are restoring landscapes by working with water and natural processes, followed by a Q&A. Supper by Take Care Food, Lismore.

📅 Saturday 14 November, doors 6:30 pm
📍 Pearces Creek Hall, NSW

Then join us at Banyula the next morning to see Natural Sequence Farming on the ground. A great weekend for anyone who cares about land, water and the future of farming in the Northern Rivers.

Drought Flood Biodiversity Local Food Employment Climate Change - we can all make a difference by the way we manage the and we live on.

Join us for a supper, film screening and discussion.
Saturday November 14th 6.30pm Pearces Creek Hall

Event page and ticket link here:
Rehydrate Australia - Supper, Film Screening, Q&A

13/10/2026

We’re excited to host this field day at Banyula!

Join Josh on Sunday, November 15th for a day on the land, learning how to read the landscape, slow the flow of water and work with nature rather than against it. He’ll walk you through the works underway on the farm and the thinking behind them.

Spots are limited, so book early via the link below. We’d love to see you here!

🌾 Introduction to Natural Sequence Farming 🌾

Join us at Banyula Farm, near Lismore, for a field day exploring how to read the landscape, slow the flow and work with nature.

Josh Wellman will share the works underway at Banyula Farm and the thinking behind them. Thanks to Banyula Farm for hosting and sharing their property with us.

📅 Sunday 15 November 2026, 9:00 am–3:30 pm
📍 Banyula Farm, 813 Booyong Road, Clunes NSW
💵 $50 per person

Book here ➡️ https://events.tarwynparktraining.com.au/events/tarwynparktraining/2415986

13/10/2026

We’re hiring for harvest season!

Our Davidson Plums and Finger Limes are nearly ready, and we’re looking for 2-4 people to join us in the orchard over summer - picking and sorting from mid November to early/mid March.

The details:
- One morning and one afternoon shift
- Minimum 3 and up to 7 hours a day, 7 days a week
- Christmas Day off if required
- Standard casual horticultural pay rates
- Basic accommodation possibly available

It’s physical, outdoor work in the summer heat, and you’ll need a good eye for colour - the fruit is picked selectively by ripeness.

Sound like you, or someone you know? Send your resume (and working visa information, if applicable) to [email protected] and share with your friends!

24/09/2026

We love every season here. Blue sky, low cloud, mud on the boots - it all belongs to this place.

The spring equinox lands this Wednesday - equal day, equal night, and by most measures here, the real start of the growing season.

18/09/2026

People ask us fairly often why anyone would take on a project like this. It’s a long timeline, it’s expensive, and the results arrive slowly enough that you have to take a lot of it on faith.
This is Niki’s answer. She’s one of the two people who decided this place was worth it, back when it looked considerably less convincing than it does now.

„This place has a very strong energy, which we felt from the beginning. And I always say: the energy you send out, or you receive, it’s a two-way street.“

Everything else we post here - the surveys, the koala, the restoration updates - sits on top of a decision she and Richy made years ago about what this land was for.

Sound on for this one.

Visuals by the incredibly talented Digital Storytellers | Stories for a Better World

ByronHinterland

14/09/2026

200+ flowers on a single raceme. About ten of them will ever become a nut.

What decides the difference is mostly who shows up to pollinate and the native bees doing that work don’t live in the rows. They live in the edges.

Full field guide in the swipe

12/09/2026

Spring calving season is officially underway. New life on the paddock is one of the best reminders of why we do the slow, unglamorous work the rest of the year.

First calf of the season - guess the birth weight in the comments for a shoutout.

NewLife FarmLife

Visuals by our extremely talented friends from Digital Storytellers | Stories for a Better World and Josh Wellman wellco_contracting

07/09/2026

Today is National Threatened Species Day. It marks the date the last known thylacine died in 1936 - 90 years ago this year.

It’s a hard anniversary, but it’s not a hopeless one. Here’s what our partners recorded on this property in the last couple months:

- Koala: endangered. Photographed in a plantation block in July, not in deep bush.
- Black-necked Stork: endangered in NSW. Crossed two sites before landing at our wetlands.
- Rose-crowned Fruit-Dove: vulnerable. Sixteen individuals, across three zones.
- White-bellied Sea-Eagle: vulnerable. One of five raptor species now breeding here.

For context: this is Big Scrub country. It was the largest lowland subtropical rainforest in Australia, around 75,000 hectares of it, and more than 99% was cleared. Banyula sits right beside one of the surviving remnants.

Every one of these species chose to be here. We didn’t put them here. What we did was stop removing the reasons for them to stay, and start putting some of them back.
That’s the whole job, really.