In the Media
Gardening Australia
Season 34 Episode 13 - Plant a Seed
Millie explores a farm with a focus on seeds and their potential to provide both beauty and food security 2023
On the southern tip of Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula is a 3-ha block where Robin Koster-Carlyon and Peter Carlyon decided to set up small-scale farm. The originally ran it as a market garden growing vegetables, and Robin committed herself to learning everything she could about soil management, but she soon realised that it was all worthless without good seed.
Transition Farm now focuses on producing high-quality seed of vegetables, flowers and herbs that are grown to suit local conditions.
The Age Newspaper
The Mornington Peninsula farming couple putting seeds in the spotlight - Megan Backhouse 2021
You might think the backstory of something as teeny, tiny as a plant seed is not, in the scheme of things, going to make a whole lot of difference to the success of your garden. Getting seeds – any seeds – into the earth is likely your priority by this point in spring.
But now that many of us are making compost, doing away with chemicals and increasing plant diversity, attention is starting to fall on the role seeds can play in making our gardens more environmentally friendly.
delicious. Australia
The delicious. Produce Awards 2017 are fast approaching, and to celebrate our amazing Australian talent, we are taking a journey from plate to paddock, back to the producer. Behind every chef is a great producer... see the Romanesco story from Transition Farm.