Dirty Clean Food – Silver Sponsor 2023

We are delighted to announce that Dirty Clean Food is the Silver Sponsor of the Slow Olive Festival 2023, at the Gidgegannup Small Farm Field Day. People can find DCF at the festival in the Small Holder Marquee.  Dirty Clean Food is a WA food company focused on...

AGM 2023

We would like to thank all the people that came to our AGM in March at the Swan Italian Club in Middle Swan. A special thank you to Cosimo Coniglio, the President of the Club, for their generosity in letting us use the hall for our meeting. We were very pleased to...

SAVING OUR BIODIVERSITY BY PLANTING HERITAGE APPLE TREES

By Vincenzo Velletri I have been very pleased to receive an email from Richard Pittaway and to meet him at his farm in the Swan Valley where he collects heritage fruit trees. Richard helps coordinate the Heritage and Rare Fruit Network efforts over here in Western...

Soil regeneration for a better food system

by Vincenzo Velletri On the 16th of February I attended a workshop with Dr. Christine Jones a leading Australian scientist on soil ecology and microbiology. The workshop addressed how to optimise soil health and production system through regenerative farming for...

World Pulses Day

by Rosalba Velletri Do you know what comes under the general name of “pulses”? They are the edible seeds of plants that belong to the Legume Family. They include beans, chickpeas, lentils, peas, broad beans, lupins, wattle seeds and more. Did you know that 2016 was...