Get to Know Your Grower: Romsey-Lancefield farm crawl

We’ll visit three market gardens who grow and forage delicious veg and honey, sell strapping seedlings and supply edible flowers using organic and regenerative principles.

Meet the people behind the produce, learn where to find local veg, and hear about how these farmers care for the soil while growing our food.

This is a free event. If you’d like to contribute something, please bring what you think is fair ticket price or what you can afford as a cash donation to Lancefield Gardens for Wildlife. Bookings are essential.

We’ll meet at 9.45am at the Lancefield Memorial Swimming Pool car park and finish at 1pm at Wildwood Organics in Bolinda. A full itinerary will be provided ahead of the event.

Transition Streets Romsey is a new community group for Romsey and Lancefield region residents. We meet each month to discuss sustainability topics and take action at the household, neighbourhood and community level. Check out our facebook page for details of our next meeting.

Veg Action Macedon Ranges celebrates local, seasonal plant-based eating. It is a voluntary group of veg-lovers that operates as an action group of the Macedon Ranges Sustainability Group. Members love delicious food (especially home grown), great company and knowing that we are improving our health and that of the planet with every delicious bite!

About Silk and Ted, Lancefield Edible Garden

Silk and Ted supply edible flowers and other produce to the Melbourne restaurant market from their half-acre backyard. They make seedlings and occasional produce available to the local community via their front yard farm stand. Lancefield Edible Garden is all about a closed loop system that minimises waste and works with nature. Silk and Ted are creating a garden that is friendly to the surrounding wildlife by selecting a high diversity of crops, using no-dig methods and by turning waste into healthy compost.

About Jo and Matt, Mushrooms Anonymous

Jo and Matt are ex-chefs and restauranteurs turned foragers, producers and adventurers. They provide wild and cultivated food to chefs from their market garden at Cope-Williams Winery in Romsey. This past summer, they opened a weekly farm gate, making their incredible veg and other homecooked goodies available to locals every Saturday morning.

About Ben, Wildwood Organics

In 2021, experienced market gardener and beekeeper Ben set up his own certified organic market garden at Hollyburton Farm in Bolinda, ten minutes south of Romsey. Soil health and biodiversity are his passion, and he grows seasonal fruit, veg and honey with regenerative principles on four acres. He provides weekly veggie boxes to locals in partnership with his neighbour Madeleine’s Eggs.

Accessibility, safety and comfort

We’ll be walking around working farms on private property. Please dress for the weather, and wear closed, comfortable shoes that you don’t mind getting muddy.

Your safety is important. This is a volunteer run community event and we ask you to be responsible for your own safety and respectful of the sites we visit. The sites we are visiting are safe, but the organisers and participating farms cannot accept responsibility for any injuries should they occur.

If you have any accessibility requirements, please get in touch with us.

Transport and parking

You’ll need your own transport to and from the tour and between sites. We encourage you to carpool if you can. If you don’t have your own transport and would like to come, please get in touch and we will make sure there’s a carpool spot for you.

Lancefield Edible Garden is in a residential area with limited parking. We’ll meet at the Lancefield Memorial Swimming Pool car park and walk together to the site (5-minute walk). There is on-site parking at Mushrooms Anonymous and Wildwood Organics.

Cancellations

If for any reason, you can’t make it, please let us know so that we can make room for someone else on the tour.

Acknowledgment of Country

This event takes place on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country. The sovereignty of this Country was never ceded. The land we'll visit and soils that grow our food have been expertly and lovingly cultivated for tens of thousands of years. We gratefully and respectfully acknowledge and celebrate this stewardship, from which we have so much to learn.