Bamboo Park Free Range Farming Sunshine Coast

04/07/2024

Queensland friends - see you at the Bamboo Park stand at the Qld Garden Expo all this week where Ed, Julia and Murray have some beautiful plants 🙂

29/03/2024

If you’re a huge chocolate fan like me, remember that it can take weeks or months to recover from an Easter chocolate overdose. So this Easter, I’m doing minimal chocolate and avoiding sugar in its many guises apart from our own raw lotus honey and whole fruits.

Sugar has so many names … if one of these is near the top of an ingredient list, it’s very high sugar content. And yes, HFCS is still one of the worst and shouldn’t be in anything you consume.

Wishing you a happy Easter full of flowers, fun, love, laughter, and the true meaning of this celebration.

04/03/2024

It's local election time in our neck of the woods, and I just wanted to express appreciation of everyone who serves the local community, is a current councillor or in the running to become one. It takes much time, energy, and personal sacrifice to serve in this way.

We need more champions dedicated to the twin goals of i) protecting nature and the environment and ii) enabling local business.

It's important to recognise that peace is only possible through widespread prosperity; prosperity is generated by successful business; >98% of businesses are micro, small or medium sized businesses who only thrive without excessive red tape causing unnecessary delays and expense.

01/03/2024

Highly recommend this special breakfast, coming up in May on John Tidy's Organics avocado farm

Sunrise Breakfast at the top of The Avocado Tree Farm as part of GourMay

17/11/2023

For the past ten weeks, Bamboo Park Free Range Farming has taken part in a trial with ALDI, organised by Thankful4Farmers. We're happy to say this is now an ongoing arrangement.

Thankful4Farmers is a collaborative initiative that brings people together to support sustainable agriculture and communities.

Thankful4Farmers is an initiative by Thankful. Thankful’s mission is to create a healthy and positive world.

Thankful is based on the science-backed principle that practicing gratitude increases overall individual happiness and can improve mental health & wellness.

Thankful initiatives are designed to enable brands and consumers to improve our world, now and for generations to come. The Thankful4Farmers Initiative focuses on delivering UN Sustainable Development Goals goals.

We're grateful for everyone who makes the world a better place.

Video introducing Thankful4Farmers and the work we are doing

28/10/2023

A more comprehensive explanation than any I have ever attempted over the years - including

“… most of today’s antibiotic toolbox comes from soil microbes.
Besides, as everything is linked, supporting the plants’ nutritional profile is supporting the plant’s immune system function — just like with us humans, when microbes help us get our vitamins! … many studies (show) that regenerative agriculture, based on practices that nurture soil life and symbioses with soil microbes and fungi, leads to increased contents in many substances that are the plant’s secondary metabolites — the plant’s immune system. Importantly, being able to produce these compounds because they have access to the right micro-nutrition and oligo elements means they are much more resistant to disease and pests … and they are also more healthful for human consumption, as these very compounds also present antioxidant properties and protective effects against aging and cancer…”

and

“… The concentration of microbes in the soil of a garden, prairie, or forest ranges between 100 million to 1 billion bacteria per teaspoon (or per gram). This is a little less than what is found in the lower gut, but overall not far off from the bacterial concentration in the gut … the soil acts as a reservoir of microbes for the plant, which can then be transferred to the animal — including humans — eating the plant … soil richness could contribute to a diverse gut microbiome…”

and

“…Both the gut and soil microbiomes can be considered virtual, forgotten organs. We were born and evolved in a microbial world, and so were plants. We grew to be way more collaborative than we would have ever thought. And in the past century, our diet, medical practices, and agricultural practices all decimated this cooperative biodiversity inside and outside of us…”

and

“…as everything is linked, restoring soil symbioses will also help nurture our health, because foods produced in healthy soils are richer in micronutrients that contribute to the diversity in our gut microbiota and protect from oxidation, inflammation, and cancer.”

Soil Health is the New Root to Holistic Health The soil microbiome is composed mostly of Actinomycetota, Acidobacteriota, Pseudomonadota (adding to about 50%), followed by Verrucomicrobiota, Chloroflexota, Bacteroidota, and a lot more. The human gut microbiome on its side is composed of 90% of Bacil

01/09/2023

Yandina Coolum road, Sunshine Coast: our neighbour’s lovely dog is missing since this morning. If you’re travelling on this road, please drive more slowly than usual and keep an eye out for a young fawn and white Collie. similar to this one but not the same dog.