Gippsland Food Adventures

07/03/2025

Excited to be delivering this important series of workshops. Keen to invite farmers and service providers to join me to explore how we can best enable and support farmers to build business and personal resilience to drought.
https://www.foodandfibregippsland.com.au/events #!event-list

Calling all businesses and community groups servicing the agricultural sector! We're coordinating FREE drought resilience workshops during April and May, in five locations:

📍Wonthaggi - Wednesday 16 April, 9:00am - 1:30pm
📍Leongatha - Thursday 17 April, 9:00am - 1:30pm
📍Warragul - Wednesday 30 April, 10:00am - 2:30pm
📍Flynn - Thursday 1 May, 10:00am - 2:30pm
📍Yarram - Thursday 8 May, 10:00am - 2:30pm

Led by well-known facilitator Jenny O’Sullivan, these workshops will explore how community groups and organisations can help farmers better prepare for - and respond to - drought, with emphasis on the different stages of drought and its impact on businesses and people. Workshop content will consider the role of farmers, key service providers and organisations in building resilience and capacity within our region.

Morning tea and a light lunch will be provided. Limited places are currently available for each session. Don't miss out - register now!

https://www.foodandfibregippsland.com.au/events

These workshops are supported by Food & Fibre Gippsland through funding from the Future Drought Fund’s Helping Regional Communities Prepare for Drought Community Impact Program.

South Gippsland Shire Council Bass Coast Shire Council Wellington Shire Council Latrobe City Council Baw Baw Shire Council

13/12/2024

This will be a great program. I encourage you to apply.

Do you aspire to being involved in community-focused leadership, recovery, and economic development? Are you interested in building personal capacity, skills, networks and confidence? Would you like to gain an understanding of what other communities are doing to support future growth and development?

The Gippsland Agricultural Leadership Program could be for you.

Major funding from the Future Drought Fund’s Regional Drought Resilience Planning Program, with assistance from South Gippsland Shire Council, will see this seven-day course delivered in Gippsland early next year - at no cost to participants.

Don't delay - submit your application today!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/P3RQ539

Download the flyer to learn more:https://www.foodandfibregippsland.com.au/s/2025-Gippsland-Agricultural-Leadership-Program_Flyer.pdf

East Gippsland Shire Council Latrobe City Council Bass Coast Shire Council Baw Baw Shire Council Wellington Shire Council Gippsland Agricultural Group Inc Agriculture Victoria Australian Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

10/10/2024

Is lots of fun

29/12/2023

A big thank you and shout out to Lesa Nails of Wonthaggi. I took my elderly mother (91) into town to get her nails done. They did a fabulous job and then wouldn’t accept any payment. So very kind. Please I cannot recommend them highly enough.
I love getting by feet done there for a treat. Great massage and leg rub thrown in.

27/12/2023

James and Samara sadly have to move closer to Foster for work, so are putting their beautiful Meeniyan property on the market. They will be very sorry to leave this block. They’ve loved the house and the town.
Please share with anyone that might be looking for a special home.

Attention retirees, gardeners, hobby farmers, the weekenders, tradies, young couples or the discerning buyer looking for a real gem!Located only 2 minutes from the gorgeous village of Meeniyan is this lovely home on small acreage, where the options are endless. With stunning established tr...

23/03/2023

JENNY O’SULLIVAN

With a childhood spent growing up on the land and a degree in Agricultural Science underpinning her work, Jenny O’Sullivan runs her own agri-consultancy business - ‘Linking Environment, Agriculture & People’. With a 664-hectare mixed farming base shared with husband Paul in Tarwin Lower, Jenny works extensively within the wider agricultural industry as well.

Holding an early role with the Department of Agriculture in Victoria, Jenny worked on delivering courses that enabled farms to transition to a rotational grazing system, ground-breaking and transformational for its time.

Jenny has a dual passion for environment and sustainability and is a long-term member of Tarwin Landcare. Sharing her concerns about community perceptions of farming, Jenny muses “we don’t do an effective enough job of communicating what we are doing. The Australian Beef Sustainability Framework shows we have reduced our emissions by 58% since 2005. Our goal is to be carbon neutral by 2030. Of all the industries in Australia, with the exception of the manufacturing industry, we have done the most to reduce emissions, but there’s no recognition of that”.

Celebrate Her! Stories of South Gippsland Women’ available by donation across South Gippsland now in support of Foster.

Published by Michelle Gordon AC
Authors Sarah Westwood & Karin Ruff
Editor Sally-Anne Watson Kane
Photographs by Karli Duckett
Design by Anita Belia
Prepared by Clancy’s Printing Service & Bass Coast Printing

24/12/2022

Lol

18/12/2022

Farmhands or farmpaws?

27/10/2022

02/08/2022

Great to welcome Newhaven College year 9 geography group to Malabar Farm to share how we run the farm and the challenges facing the industry.

22/04/2022

Lovely to chat about what we do.

It's PodTime People!

And it's another cracker where we hear from local people doing great things in the local environment.

Jenny and Paul O'Sullivan farm in South Gippsland and are great advocates for their community, their business and the environment.

In this episode, Jenny and Paul provide a commentary as we drive around the property talking everything from pre-European settlement, early settler activity, changing climate, the beef industry target of being carbon neutral by 2030 and the pleasure they derive from running a property sustainably.

Check it out wherever you get your pods.