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Hastings Farm Gate Hosts 2023

Below are hosts who are opening their gates on the June long weekend Fri 10 - Mon 12 June, 2023.....

Home Grown Organics
We believe that locally grown food is a key part of a healthy and sustainable community. Our passion & purpose is helping to educate and assist others towards eating and living a healthy lifestyle while ourselves thriving on the agrarian lifestyle of hard work, healthy eating, and purposeful living.

Sohip Organics

At the end of 2019, we packed our bags, left our careers and moved across the border to embark on our farming journey.
We are working toward being 100% sustainable and growing food that in a way that reduces more carbon than it creates and regenerates the landscape.

Grazed and Grown Farm

Our Farm is situated on the beautiful Comboyne Plateau on the Mid North Coast of NSW. Our passion is in farming the most nutrient dense food possible without the use of chemicals, herbicides or pesticides. To do this we nurture the land itself through regenerative practices.

Oxhill Organics

We are a certified organic farm on the mid north coast of NSW. Our family has farmed here for four generations and we are committed to sustainably producing quality, nutrient-dense food.

Barbushco

Barbushco is a family owned business dedicated wholly to preserving the art of traditional Australian bush foods.

Barbushco cultivates a diverse range of organically grown indigenous foods, bush tucker, fruits, herbs and spices.

Chef2Farmer

Our aim is to farm with a deep respect to animals. The pasture raised hens, pigs and cattle live on the freshest pasture, in their natural environments, foraging, digging, scratching and grazing all day every day, full of sunshine and vitamin D.

Doraville Organics

Organically grown a our certified Organic farm rears pastured

beef on lush grass and

delicious oranges.

Antheraea Biodiversity Conservation Trust

This unique sanctuary backing on to Lake Innes consists of old growth forest and forms part of a regional wildlife corridor.

As well as koalas, the area provides habitat for threatened animal and plant species. This site is a designated Biodiversity Conservation area through an in perpetuity partnership conservation agreement with the NSW Biodiversity Conservation Trust.

Today's Garden

Urban inspiration. Derek and Tonia's garden is a story blank slate to productive garden. Veggies & fruit trees, chickens, composting, Koala rehabilitation enclosure, bike maintenance, use of solar, water storage, pest management – slug traps, natives and exotics and frog habitat Pond with Pacific Blue eyes for mosquito larvae control.

Homemade Healthy Happy Farm

A small-scale ethical pork farm near Port Macquarie. We raise organic-fed pigs on pasture, selling our ethical pasture-raised pork direct to customers in the local area. We have a beautiful little farmstay, and we love to open the world of farming and homesteading to inquisitive adults and children.

The Davis Farm

The Davis Farm is a not-for-profit that supports our local community. Focused on mental health we offer a community space to learn, connect, belong and grow.

The Fruit Tree Fella

Premium quality, locally sourced fruit and nut trees

Hastings Riverlands Milk

We are pleased to announce that after over five years of building our micro-dairy at our farm at Huntingdon, the business will be finally up and running at the start of 2023. We will be selling milk to shops and direct to customers and in the near future he also hopes to produce yoghurt and possibly cheese.

The Lost Plot Community Garden

Check out our thriving community garden, see how we garden organically and sustainably. We make our own compost using bays made by our members, and we have worm-farming, a thriving food forest, and peaceful places to sit and relax.

Explore our beautiful space and discover plants familiar and new.

Kai's Place Urban Food Forest

At Kai’s Place visitors will have the opportunity to see the potential for food production on a regular suburban block.

Visitors will learn about simple permaculture practices especially focused on soil building, water harvesting and storage and elements of a semi-closed food production system.

Comboyne Orchards

Small, chemical-free, family farm producing: certified organic avocados, kiwi fruit and chokos.

We are firm believers that you can’t out-smart nature, and so we try our best to create an environment that mimics the way plants grow naturally.

Häuslein Tiny House Co

We build high-end tiny houses for a better, more sustainable way of living in Australia.

Comboyne Produce

Our motives are regenerated living soils and environment which promotes nutrition and health in plants and animals. Our stress and force free approach to agriculture is proving there is a better way. We invite you on our journey as we challenge ourselves with new ways of thinking about farming.

Lake Cathie Community Hub

& Garden

Experience a small scale community garden run by volunteers in association with the

Hastings Neighbourhood Service. We have a thriving compost and worm farm, bush tucker garden and raised fruit and veg gardens.

Homestead by the Sea

Be inspired to take up permaculture in your own backyard!

Visitors will learn about creating productive gardens and fruit orchards on small residential blocks,

along with other sustainability features.

Our sponsorship partners include

Hastings Farm Gate is an Earth Logic Incorporated project. Earth Logic is a not-for-profit that delivers projects that connect and educate communities to collaboratively regrow, renew or restore the environment.