The RegenNarration 89. A Native Grains & Native Mills Resurgence, Part 2: Ian & Courtney on the art of regeneration
Welcome to Part 2 of A Native Grains & Native Mills Resurgence, featuring the young farmers changing the face of farming in Australia. Ian Congdon, Courtney Young and family are farmers, mill makers, artists and business people, and they’re exploring how all this connects with culture, creativity, and the regeneration of country and community. If you haven’t yet listened to last week’s episode with Gaala Watson and Rob Pekin from Food Connect, the trailblazing social enterprise and legendary community food hub in Brisbane, no fear. You can listen in reverse order, as it were. So given you’re here, stick around for this incredible story.
It's a serendipitous chain of events deep and wide across Country, that includes connections with elders, native grains off Bruce Pascoe’s farm, this podcast, and this young farming couple who wondered if they could build the first Australian mill in who knows how long, and how that might help leverage the sorts of systemic changes so many of us would like to see.
Join Courtney, Ian and I, on what happened to be settlement day for their own farm, and would you believe, the day they finished their first mill!
Title slide: Ian, Courtney and family (supplied). You can see some other terrific photos on the episode webpage.
This conversation was recorded on Monday 28 June 2021.
Music:
The System, by the Public Opinion Afro Orchestra.
Faraway Castle, by Rae Howell & Sunwrae.
Find more:
Woodstock Flour
Courtney’s website
Tune into Part 1 of this series, A Native Grains and Native Mills Resurgence, featuring Gaala Watson and Rob Pekin from Food Connect
You can hear my conversation with Tyson Yunkaporta, that Courtney refers to, on episode 70
And as it happens, that one was just after my conversation with MarkTaylor from Miller & Baker
And finally, hats off to Andrew Heyn from New American Stonemills and Don Hearn from the Noteworthy charity, the organiser of the Angie McMahon gig at Little Pork Deli, Barham.
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