SilvoHarvest by Farleigh Farms

24/06/2026

🌳🐴 We Need Your Voice, Farmies! 🐴🌳

As many of you know, Farleigh Farms is so much more than just a farm. It's a place where people connect with nature, learn where their food comes from, make memories with family and friends, and experience the joy that animals and open spaces bring.

We're asking our wonderful community to please consider sending an email to our local councillors explaining what Farleigh Farms means to you and why you support our vision to open the farm to the public as a:

🍓 Pick-Your-Own (PYO) fruit farm
📚 Living classroom for children and adults
🐴 Place where people can interact with and pat the horses
🏇 Centre for riding lessons and equine experiences
🌱 Space to learn about regenerative agriculture, sustainability and farming
❤️ Community hub where people can reconnect with the land
🍊 Purchase your own trees at Fruit Tree Cottage

Perhaps you've visited the farm, signed our petition, followed our journey online, or simply believe that places like Farleigh Farms are important for the future of the Sunshine Coast. Whatever your connection, we'd love for you to share it.

Tell our councillors why you believe farms should be places where the community can learn, grow, and enjoy meaningful experiences. Explain why having the opportunity to visit the horses, take riding lessons, pick fresh fruit straight from the trees, and participate in educational activities matters to you and your family. Essentially, explain why our farm should remain rural, rather than be forcibly re-zoned as residential.

Every email helps demonstrate the incredible community support behind Farleigh Farms and our vision for the future. Your voice could make all the difference. 💚 Ultimately, we need 6 councillors to vote in favour of keeping our farm zoned rural so they ALL need to hear your thoughts on this matter. Also, encourage them to come for a farm tour - we'll open them with open arms!

PS - don't jsut email your local councillor, email them all!

Thank you for standing beside us on this journey. We truly couldn't do it without you.

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Mayor Rosanna Natoli
Cr Terry Landsberg - Your Division 2 Councillor
Councillor Christian Dickson - Division 6
Cr Joe Natoli
Winston Johnston OAM - Division 5 Sunshine Coast Council
Cr Maria Suarez, Division 9
Councillor Taylor Bunnag - Division 8, Sunshine Coast Regional Council
Cr David Law - Division 10
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Cr Tim Burns Division 3

24/06/2026

A huge thank you to Councillor Christian Dickson for taking the time to visit Farleigh Farms, listen to our story, and gain an understanding of our vision and plans for the future. We truly appreciate the opportunity to share what we're working towards and to discuss the important role that farms like ours can play in our community.

We're also grateful that Christian was willing to roll up his sleeves, get his hands dirty, and plant a mandarin tree during his visit! 🍊 It was wonderful to have him contribute to the future of the farm in such a meaningful way. In the years ahead, we hope that Christian and his family will return to pick fruit from the very tree they planted and watch it grow alongside Farleigh Farms.

Thank you, Christian, for your time, support, and genuine interest in what we're creating here at Farleigh Farms. 🌳🐴🍊

Who's next up for a farm tour? 💕

Councillor Christian Dickson - Division 6
Councillor Taylor Bunnag - Division 8, Sunshine Coast Regional Council
Cr Terry Landsberg - Your Division 2 Councillor
Cr Maria Suarez, Division 9
Cr David Law - Division 10
Winston Johnston OAM - Division 5 Sunshine Coast Council
Mayor Rosanna Natoli
Cr Tim Burns Division 3
Cr Joe Natoli

23/06/2026

What a fantastic experience! Thank you for having us 😌🙏 CQUniversity Australia University of the Sunshine Coast

23/06/2026

Today is a pretty exciting day for us at Farleigh Farms! 🌱💚

Heidi and I are incredibly excited to be mentoring at the GrowHer Program today. It's an honour to help inspire and support the next generation of young women who are passionate about agriculture, innovation and technology. 👩‍🌾🚜💡

Programs like GrowHer are creating amazing opportunities for regional Queensland girls to explore AgTech, develop innovative solutions to real-world agricultural challenges, and discover the many pathways available within our industry. We're looking forward to sharing our experiences, learning from these bright young minds, and seeing the incredible ideas they bring to the table. 🌿✨

The future of agriculture is in great hands, and we can't wait to be part of today's journey! 🌱🚀

20/06/2026

Throwback to our viral vid 😂 181k views!

20/06/2026

20/06/2026

Well, the Deputy Premier has officially liked the invitation... so does that count as an RSVP, Jarrod Bleijie MP? 😄 The kettle's on at Fruit Tree Cottage whenever you're ready!

18/06/2026

🐸 An Exciting Frog Discovery at Farleigh Farms! 🐸

One of our Farmies recently made a fantastic discovery using the FrogID app from the Australian Museum, identifying an Adelotus brevis, commonly known as the Tusked Frog on our farm.

The Tusked Frog is one of Australia's more unique amphibians. Found along the east coast from south-east Queensland into New South Wales, it prefers moist forests, creek lines, gullies and areas with plenty of leaf litter where it can remain hidden during the day. Unlike many frog species that breed in open water, Tusked Frogs often lay their eggs in nests dug into mud or moist soil near the edges of ponds and dams. When heavy rain arrives and water levels rise, the tadpoles are washed into the water to continue their development.

Perhaps the most remarkable feature of this species is the pair of small "tusks" developed by males during the breeding season. These aren't true teeth, but hardened projections on the lower jaw that males use when competing for territory and mates. In fact, the Tusked Frog is one of the few Australian frog species known to engage in physical combat!

Their call is also quite distinctive - a soft "tok" or "bonk" sound that can easily be mistaken for a distant dripping tap. Because they are often heard rather than seen, acoustic recording tools such as FrogID are incredibly valuable for helping scientists track their distribution and monitor populations.

Discoveries like this highlight the incredible biodiversity that exists right here on Farleigh Farms. Every frog species plays an important role in the ecosystem, helping to control insect populations while also acting as indicators of environmental health. The presence of Tusked Frogs suggests that suitable habitat still exists for these fascinating native amphibians.

A huge thank you to our Farmie for contributing to citizen science and helping document the wildlife that shares our farm. Every frog call recorded through FrogID adds to a growing database that assists researchers in understanding and protecting Australia's remarkable frog species.

🐸💚 Have you heard frogs calling around your property lately? You might be surprised by what's living right under your nose!

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18/06/2026

🐸 Have You Heard the Frogs Around Your Place? 🐸

If you're out on the farm, walking along a creek, checking dams after rain, or simply listening to the sounds of nature from your backyard, we encourage you to download the FrogID app from the Australian Museum and become a citizen scientist!

The app allows you to record frog calls using your smartphone and submit them to frog experts who identify the species and add the data to a national database. Every recording helps scientists better understand where frogs are thriving, where they're declining, and how environmental changes are impacting their populations. Frogs are also excellent indicators of ecosystem and waterway health.

Australia is home to more than 250 frog species, with almost all of them found nowhere else on Earth. By simply recording the sounds you hear after rain or around wetlands, dams and waterways, you're helping build one of Australia's most important wildlife monitoring projects.

Here at Farleigh Farms, we're passionate about biodiversity and understanding the wildlife that shares our landscape. We'd love to see what frogs our followers can discover! Download the app, record some calls, and let us know what species you find. 🐸🌿

You can learn more about the project at FrogID by the Australian Museum (https://www.frogid.net.au/). The app is free and available for both Apple and Android devices.

17/06/2026

🚨 Fire Ant Detections Raise Important Questions 🚨

The initial discovery of fire ants under a sandbag near the church on Stark Lane, Forest Glen, over 12 months ago followed by another detection at a Sunshine Coast Council mulch site in K***a Park, should prompt some serious discussion about how fire ant management is being approached.

One of the most important questions is: Where did these materials come from?

If fire ants are being spread through sand, soil, mulch, landscaping products, and other materials, then identifying and tracing the source of those materials should be a priority. How can biosecurity agencies effectively contain and eradicate fire ants if the pathways of spread are not being thoroughly investigated?

Every detection presents an opportunity to gather valuable information. Tracing the movement of infested materials, identifying where they originated, and understanding how they reached their destination can help prevent future outbreaks. Without this information, we risk treating the symptoms while failing to address the cause.

These detections also raise questions about whether resources are being directed towards the most effective measures. Rather than relying heavily on blanket preventative treatment programs across large areas, should there be a greater focus on proactive searches, inspections, surveillance, and targeted investigations to locate actual nests and identify sources of infestation?

Finding fire ants before they spread should be at the heart of any eradication program. Thorough ground searches, tracing exercises, and targeted responses based on evidence can provide a clearer picture of where infestations exist and how they are moving through our communities.

The community deserves confidence that every fire ant detection is being fully investigated - not just treated. If infested sandbags and mulch are appearing in new locations, understanding how and why they got there is just as important as responding to the discovery itself.

As more detections emerge across the Sunshine Coast, many residents are asking whether enough emphasis is being placed on tracing sources, locating active nests, and conducting proactive searches of land. If the goal is true eradication, these questions deserve answers.

🐜🌱 Protecting our region requires more than widespread preventative treatments - it requires finding the source, understanding the spread, and targeting the problem where it actually exists. 🌱🐜