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'Carob beans and Jujubes (Chinese dates) - growing fine foods for the future'Public workshop to be held September 4, 2014
The Food Forest has teamed with PIRSA (Primary Industry & Regions SA), Carobs Australia and Perry's Nursery to present a public workshop to facilitate the growing of two of the World's oldest food plants, Carob beans and Jujubes (Chinese dates) in a bid to give Southern Australia tree crops that are adapted to climate change. Both species can produce crops using modest...
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Small scale mechanisation of harvesting and processing
This film shows how a family growing pistachios on a small farm in Australia, found small-scale equipment to enable themselves to harvest, process and sell their crop. Their fascinating journey has helped others to source village-scale machinery from Sicily and Greece and unlock the true value of their produce.
Small to medium scale growers often find themselves far from processing factories and many prefer to add value to their product and...
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