Year 12 food technology and hospitality students from Brigidine College in Randwick spent three days this week touring the Cowra region learning about different types and scales of food production. Students were able to meet the farmers, ask questions and even taste their produce during a packed itinerary visiting a holistically managed sheep grazing property, an organic farm that specialises in wine, olives and figs, a high production vegetable farm, a dairy, olive processors and the Central Tablelands Livestock Exchange. Our local producers shared their knowledge and gave personal insights into how they’re managing their land and resources to improve productivity and farm health into the future.
- Wooly explains integrated pest management used on organic figs at Rosnay Organic
- Olives ready for bottling at Rosnay Organic
- Ed explains how cover crops return organic matter to the soil at Mulyan
- Spanish onions being harvested at Mulyan
- Cows line up for milking at Yarallah Dairy
- La Barre Olive Oil from Billimari Olive Processors