The Emerald Tor Farm is a farm with love.

Just an hours drive from Melbourne our farm is  an open, warm and welcoming home to all creatures. Here, it is our endeavour to produce natural, nutrient rich fruit and vegetables to be enjoyed by all. 

Using permaculture methods coupled with fantastic energies and a lot of love it is our dream to bring the world together one heart and broad bean at a time! 

“Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments. The word itself is a contraction not only of permanent and agriculture but also of permanent culture, as cultures cannot survive for long without a sustainable agricultural base and land use ethic.   On one level, permaculture deals with plants, animals, buildings, and infrastructures (water, energy, communications). However, permaculture is not about these elements themselves, but rather about the relationships we can create between them by the way we place them in the landscape.

The aim is to create systems that are ecologically sound and economically viable, which provide for their own needs, do not exploit or pollute, and are therefore sustainable in the long term. Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life-supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area.

Permaculture is based on the observation of natural systems, the wisdom contained in traditional farming systems, and modern scientific and technological knowledge. Although based on good ecological models, permaculture creates a cultivated ecology, which is designed to produce more human and animal food than is generally found in nature.”

-       Bill Mollison






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