Transition Farm produces and sells high quality, 100% certified organic and Demeter bio-dynamic seed that thrives in low input growing conditions with resilient health and strong genetics. We breed for vigour, flavour, yield, beauty, disease resilience and local adaptation. Organically produced seed with vigour, in-built resilience and the desire to network and grow thrives in organic plots.
We are dedicated to the Australian Demeter Bio-dynamic method of farming - nurturing whole farm ecosystems and building and maintaining healthy soil. We believe plants grown in living soil, who's growth is guided by sunlight produce seeds capable of forming robust root systems. Resilience- to pests and disease, to less then ideal growing conditions, to climate stress - is a generational story held in a seed.
We are passionate about supporting and being part of a hearty network of growers developing and maintaining living soils, contributing to healthy communities and ensuring food sovereignty. Transition Farm seed is used by commercial growers and nurseries Australia wide.
In Southern Victoria, April begins our sowing for next spring and summer. Garlic, broad beans and cool season annual flowers!
Hardy annuals either require cold stratification or simply germinate at cooler temperatures. Often the plants require a period of vernalisation, or cold, to flower prolifically. And they also cope better with, if not enjoy, cooler temperatures.
Lettuce, in our southern Victorian, cold, wet, frosty July, can turn to mush. In the 2020 - 2021 growing season, we trialed our entire lettuce collection, experimenting with seasonal sowing windows and protected and not protected positions. There was a clear winter winner.
Transition Farm
Est. 2011
Transition Farm is a family owned and operated farm and seed company set up and run by us - Peter Carlyon and Robin Koster-Carlyon.
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“We have had fabulous success with Transition Farm’s vegetable, herb and flower seed. All varieties have been carefully trialled by Robin and Peter for suitability in our SE Australian climate and for superior growth and flavour. Their seed is 100% certified organic and biodynamically grown, harvested, dried and packed on Transition Farm. I can highly recommend their seed and respect their commitment to looking after their farm and the broader environment in the sustainable manner that they do.”
Fiona Brockhoff, Landscape Designer
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"We've never seen such happy seedlings as those we've raised using your seed - they display extreme vigour and keep on going when transplanted out - zero transplant shock being the most striking feature."
Oliver Shorthouse, Market Grower to Australia’s Best Restaurants
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We acknowledge the Boonwurrung people of the Kulin Nation and their deep knowledge of and connection to the unceded coastal region of the now called Mornington Peninsula where we farm. We respect and feel great gratitude for the land, water and culture they steward - past and present.
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The elegance and fragrance of sweet peas in the spring - summer garden captivate and enchant many gardeners, florist and bouquet customers. Prized for their delicate blooms and intoxicating fragrance, they are easy to grow and mix well in the herbaceous border and into cut flower production.