Category: Updates
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New course starting soon
Do you have a fruit tree or two (or many)? We know a lot of “friends of HOFC” are also living the country lifestyle, with fruit trees, veggie gardens, chooks, […]
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How we support diversity and inclusivity
By Ira Barker, Murnong Mummas Diversity at Harcourt Organic Farming Co-op goes beyond what’s cultivated from the land—it also encompasses the people who work and contribute to it, as well […]
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Sharing our research on small-farm viability
The viability and challenges of small-scale farming… We’re sharing one of our final grant puzzle pieces this week, developed through our Innovate to Regenerate grant from WWF Australia. Read on […]
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Orchard Keepers Season Update: A Year of Fruit and Community (and cake)
As the fruit season comes to a close, it’s time to reflect on the year’s highlights and challenges. The most pleasing aspect was that the weather was kind and the […]
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Sellar Dairy Update: We’ve hit our target of ten milkers, sort of.
This blog is a repost from Tess’s blog on her website. It’s been a long time since I’ve written a blog. I’ve been pretty consumed with just running the farm. […]
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Update on our current projects
This update is all about our current project, a WWF-Australia grant. In 2022, WWF Australia funded us to implement a project for their “Innovate to Regenerate Challenge”. Our goals with […]
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2021 Business of the Year!
We were awarded Mount Alexander Shire Council Business of the Year 2021! Harcourt Organic Farming Cooperative (HOFC) was awarded two awards at the annual Mount Alexander Shire Council Business Awards; […]
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Garlic ~ Its that time again!
We’ve got our seventh crop of garlic safely out of the ground before the next big rain (PHEW!!) It was touch and go this year as to how the crop was going to […]
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Hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground
I was bought up in neither a farming nor a religious family. I grew up surrounded by bush and river, barefoot and free to explore the world. I spent a […]
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Flash Fruit Tree Sale
It’s the very last chance to buy fruit trees at the farmers market on Wednesday. There’s always room for one more tree in your garden!
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Apple, prune and plum seconds
We have a variety of apples, nashi pears and plums available to order and collect at our farmers markets. Order before 3pm friday for collection at Coburg Farmers Market this Saturday 6 March! For those of you with a dehydrator I recommend the prunes!