The RegenNarration 167 Excerpt. Next Generation Farming: North Arm Farms' Seven-Way Cooperative, Community Ties & Organic Decertification
We’re now heading south from the Kimberley towards Margaret River for the regenerative agriculture conference next week. One brilliant couple who’ll be there, and who appear in the film Rachel’s Farm being shown on the eve of the conference, is Kaycee Simuong and Tom Macindoe. This is an excerpt of episode 167 featuring the last 25 minutes or so of our conversation, recorded after visiting Rachel, up the Valley at their 400 acre farm of forest and grassland regeneration, with extraordinary market garden.
Here’s part of the blurb from the full episode:
Tom and Kaycee are descendents of Scottish highlanders and Lao rice farmers (& somewhat accidental refugees) respectively. And as it happens, Kaycee spent some formative time in the Kimberley (at Mornington) when she was 19. Now she’s with Tom running Mandarin Bend Farm, in the beautiful Nambucca Valley, Gumbaynggirr Country, on the mid-north coast of NSW. But not only that. With a bunch of neighbouring producers, they’ve gone on to start the North Arm Farms coop – a unique food to market set up, with deep community roots, stewardship ethos, and enterprise model that sends 100% of what we spend on our food directly to the farmers. This is where we pick up the conversation.
To hear the conversation in full, head to episode 167 (see the link below).
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This conversation was recorded on 11 April 2023.
Title slide: Kaycee & Tom (pic: Anthony James).
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Tune into the full episode 167, where you'll also find some photos and a few links.
Join us at the Regenerative Agriculture Conference in Margaret River next week, September 2023 – you can get tix for the Rachel’s Farm screening on the Tuesday evening, 5 September, on the program web page. Rachel will be in conversation with Anthony James and another previous guest on the podcast, Jade Miles.
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