# grower (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover grower. Page: Feed: --- ## [GRAIN GROWERS URGED TO PREPARE FOR INCREASED LOCUST PLAGUE RISK](https://www.grainproducers.com.au/post/grain-growers-urged-to-prepare-for-increased-plague-locust-risk) _2026-08-20 · RachOx · Grain Producers Australia_ Grain Producers Australia is urging growers across South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria to remain alert as the risk of locust plague activity increases heading into spring. Locust populations increased substantially across inland eastern Australia during autumn following heavy rainfall, good soil moisture and favourable breeding conditions. The Australian Plague Locust Commission has… ## [GRAIN HARVEST THREATENED BY WORKING HOLIDAY VISA SLOWDOWN](https://www.grainproducers.com.au/post/grain-harvest-threatened-by-working-holiday-visa-slowdown) _2026-08-17 · RachOx · Grain Producers Australia_ Grain Producers Australia (GPA) is deeply concerned by the Federal Government’s confirmation that it is slowing the processing of working holiday visa applications. In the months leading up to harvest, GPA is alarmed by policy settings that undermine working holidaymakers as part of the seasonal workforce mix that risks undermining critical harvest capacity. As reported over the weekend, the… ## [PADDOCK REPORTING FOR GROWERS TO SHARPEN THE NATIONAL MOUSE ACTIVITY PICTURE](https://www.grainproducers.com.au/post/paddock-reporting-for-growers-to-sharpen-the-national-mouse-activity-picture) _2026-08-14 · RachOx · Grain Producers Australia_ Growers experiencing significant mouse pressure can now submit paddock-level evidence to have their agroecological zone’s (AEZ) mouse activity rating reviewed as part of the process that determines access to ZP50 mouse bait. The rapid in-paddock assessment pathway will ensure evolving mouse activity is found quickly and if moderate or above levels are confirmed, ZP50 use will be permitted under… ## [Summer 2026](https://kitchengardensmv.substack.com/p/summer-2026) _2026-08-13 · Faren Worthington Osnoss · Kitchen Gardens MV_ A summer update from KGMV. ## [GPA WELCOMES VICTORIAN GOVERNMENT PHOSPHINE DELAY](https://www.grainproducers.com.au/post/gpa-welcomes-victorian-government-phosphine-delay) _2026-08-10 · RachOx · Grain Producers Australia_ Grain Producers Australia (GPA) welcomes the Victorian Government decision today proposing a significant delay in workplace changes to phosphine fumigant use. WorkSafe Victoria announced today a proposal to delay the commencement of new Workplace Exposure Limits (WELs) for 15 airborne contaminants, including phosphine, until 1 December 2029. It is hoped that this is the first sensible announcement… ## [Grower’s Checklist: August](https://kitchengardensmv.substack.com/p/growers-checklist-august-b71) _2026-08-03 · Faren Worthington Osnoss · Kitchen Gardens MV_ Harvest and plant (again) ## [Late Summer Planting Time](https://kitchengardensmv.substack.com/p/late-summer-planting-time) _2026-08-02 · Faren Worthington Osnoss · Kitchen Gardens MV_ Late Season planting, as we call it at KGMV, is how we keep refreshing vegetable gardens with new crops for late summer and fall harvest. ## [COUNTRYMAN | Miling farmer Barry Large steps down as Grain Producers Australia chair after 16 yeas with the body](https://www.grainproducers.com.au/post/countryman-miling-farmer-barry-large-steps-down-as-grain-producers-australia-chair-after-16-yeas-w) _2026-07-29 · RachOx · Grain Producers Australia_ Barry Large has stepped down as Chair of Grain Producers Australia after 16 years on the board. Countryman reflected on his contribution to the organisation, highlighting his role as a founding director, his leadership on national grain policy and biosecurity, and his work to establish an independent national voice for Australian grain producers. Reflecting on his time with the organisation, Barry… ## [GRAIN CENTRAL | Urea price dive hits suppliers beyond the chosen three](https://www.grainproducers.com.au/post/grain-central-urea-price-dive-hits-suppliers-beyond-the-chosen-three-1) _2026-07-29 · RachOx · Grain Producers Australia_ Falling global urea prices are exposing the unintended consequences of the Federal Government's fertiliser support package. Grain Central reported that while the scheme helped secure supply during a period of global uncertainty, independent suppliers are now carrying significant losses as prices retreat, prompting fresh questions about competition across Australia's fertiliser market. Grain… ## [THE LAND | The catch-up: as ag leadership figures retire, see who got the top jobs](https://www.grainproducers.com.au/post/the-land-the-catch-up-as-ag-leadership-figures-retire-see-who-got-the-top-jobs) _2026-07-29 · RachOx · Grain Producers Australia_ Grain Producers Australia has entered a new chapter with the election of Northern Region Director Matthew Madden as Chair and Southern Region Director Mark Schilling as Deputy Chair. The Land also recognised the contribution of outgoing Chair Barry Large and Independent Director Mitch Hooke, highlighting their combined decades of service and leadership within the organisation. Reflecting on the… ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ru9etzWCq3KO) _2026-07-29 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when a friend signs up for the Graphite Business Card ## [GRAIN CENTRAL | AGIC hears of industry pushback to phosphine changes](https://www.grainproducers.com.au/post/grain-central-agic-hears-of-industry-pushback-to-phosphine-changes) _2026-07-28 · RachOx · Grain Producers Australia_ Proposed changes to phosphine fumigation rules were a key topic at this year's Australian Grain Industry Conference. Grain Central reported that Grain Producers Australia has joined Grain Trade Australia, GrainGrowers and other industry organisations in pushing for practical, evidence-based changes, warning the proposed requirements could significantly disrupt grain storage and export without… ## [STOCK & LAND | Grower groups concerned for future after Syngenta exits paraquat space](https://www.grainproducers.com.au/post/stock-land-grower-groups-concerned-for-future-after-syngenta-exits-paraquat-space) _2026-07-27 · RachOx · Grain Producers Australia_ Questions about future access to crop protection products have been raised following Syngenta's decision to withdraw from the Australian and New Zealand paraquat market. Farm Weekly explored the implications for growers, with Grain Producers Australia warning the decision highlights the challenges of maintaining investment and choice in Australia's relatively small agricultural chemical market.… ## [MATTHEW MADDEN ELECTED AS GPA CHAIR AS BARRY LARGE STEPS DOWN AFTER LANDMARK TENURE](https://www.grainproducers.com.au/post/matthew-madden-elected-as-gpa-chair-as-barry-large-steps-down-after-landmark-tenure) _2026-07-27 · RachOx · Grain Producers Australia_ Grain Producers Australia (GPA) has elected Northern Region Director Matthew Madden as its new Chair following the organisation’s Annual General Meeting today. Mr Madden, a New South Wales grain producer from Moree who has served as GPA Deputy Chair since 2023, succeeds Barry Large, who steps down after five years as Chair and sixteen years of service on the GPA Board, including as one of the… ## [Socialism and Subsistence](https://www.sickveg.com/2026/07/socialism-and-subsistence.html) _2026-07-23 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ Both of my books, "Retreat" (2020) and "The Garden" (2025) had an aspect of left-wing politics to them. However, in sympathy to the research material (as opposed to bringing a forced perspective to bear on it) it wasn't appropriate to explore this in detail in the books. The lens of Eastern philosophy through which I surveyed the terrain, and which that generation favoured, gave a wider and more… ## [Grower’s Checklist: July](https://kitchengardensmv.substack.com/p/growers-checklist-july-a8b) _2026-07-01 · Faren Worthington Osnoss · Kitchen Gardens MV_ Peak growth, peak challenges ## [Permaculture co-originator reviews my book "The Garden"](https://www.sickveg.com/2026/06/permaculture-co-originator-reviews-my.html) _2026-06-26 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ Head over here to read David Holmgren's review of my book " The Garden: Visionary Growers and Farmers of the Counterculture. " I often receive books to review from publishers, but recently I was sent an inscribed copy of a book, The Garden, directly from the author, Mathew Ingram. A year after my extended interview with him in June 2023, I received the manuscript for factchecking the material that… ## [Eartha & Aetherias](https://www.sickveg.com/2026/06/eartha-aetherias.html) _2026-06-14 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ Alicia Bay Laurel is the celebrated polymath - artist, author, and musician - who found international fame as the visionary communard behind the classic self-sufficiency book "Living on the Earth". Her latest production Eartha & Aetherias is described by her as an "eco sci-fi romantasy graphic novella." It draws upon her experiences living in Hawaii during the nineteen seventies and all that… ## [Grower’s Checklist: June](https://kitchengardensmv.substack.com/p/growers-checklist-june-647) _2026-05-31 · Faren Worthington Osnoss · Kitchen Gardens MV_ Keep planting and harvest often ## [Knepp](https://www.sickveg.com/2026/05/knepp.html) _2026-05-22 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ I drove down to Knepp yesterday with my friend Mags. The weather was stunning. We had a tour around the walled garden but the highlight for me was wandering around the estate itself. The place just feels so HEALTHY! The birdsong is simply incredible - Mags has a birdsong app on her phone - she ran it and there seven birds audible just where we were standing. The rewilding is all very well and… ## [Grower’s Checklist: May](https://kitchengardensmv.substack.com/p/growers-checklist-may-79d) _2026-05-01 · Faren Worthington Osnoss · Kitchen Gardens MV_ Warm season planting begins ## [Stream Torrents & IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ErsVpM931Dep) _2026-05-01 · **Sponsored**_ Search magnet links and stream movies, music, books, and live TV in-browser ## [Einkorn](https://www.sickveg.com/2026/04/einkorn.html) _2026-04-10 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ A field of Einkorn and Emmer Wheat I photographed growing at FarmEd. I'm having a thing with Doves Farm Organic Wholemeal Stoneground Einkorn Flour . I've only rarely endorsed a product like I did with Hodmedod's delicious Carlin Peas . That's reserved for food so great that by eating it you're making the world a better place. Einkorn wheat is an ancient grain that was originally harvested as many… ## [Grower’s Checklist: April](https://kitchengardensmv.substack.com/p/growers-checklist-april) _2026-04-01 · Faren Worthington Osnoss · Kitchen Gardens MV_ Cool season planting ## [Spring 2026](https://kitchengardensmv.substack.com/p/spring-2026) _2026-03-29 · Faren Worthington Osnoss · Kitchen Gardens MV_ I just came in from my own garden where there are so many things to do, I’ll be turning to my own March checklist for relief. ## [When to Plant Peas](https://kitchengardensmv.substack.com/p/when-to-plant-peas) _2026-03-29 · Faren Worthington Osnoss · Kitchen Gardens MV_ There’s always buzz in March about peas. ## [Grower’s Checklist: March](https://kitchengardensmv.substack.com/p/growers-checklist-march-af0) _2026-03-04 · Faren Worthington Osnoss · Kitchen Gardens MV_ Transition to Planting Season. ## [Sick Veg 100](https://www.sickveg.com/2025/11/sick-veg-100.html) _2025-11-22 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ Twenty years ago at my blog WOEBOT , in December 2005, I made a list of 100 records . For a couple of years I've been planning a 100 for the Sick Veg blog, but this time of non-fiction books. I first thought I would do it for Christmas - but I've had a little time free - so think of it as an early Christmas present. You're welcome. This moment has arrived because I'm clearing my decks. Last week I… ## [Eliot Coleman: "The Self-Fed Farm"](https://www.sickveg.com/2025/11/eliot-coleman-self-fed-farm.html) _2025-11-10 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ Great interview with Eliot Coleman at The Real Organic Project for his new book, " The Self-Fed Farm. " Coleman argues that vegetable growers can effectively generate their soil fertility with Green Manures. To the layman, the city-dweller, this sounds like obscure, agricultural jargon. Eyes roll. Why should anyone care about this? Because it's so totally critical, let me break it down for you: 1)… ## [Finding Lights in a Dark Age.](https://www.sickveg.com/2025/11/finding-lights-in-dark-age.html) _2025-11-08 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ I've absolutely loved Chris Smaje's previous two books. Smaje has been locked in life-or-death tussle with the journalist George Monbiot - bravely articulating what many of us think about Monbiot's celebration of lab food. Monbiot here is reduced to a very brief cameo - somewhat like a pantomime baddy; mercifully diminished. "Finding Lights in a Dark Age" is, instead, a much more personal book.… ## [John Seymour: The Self-Sufficient Gardener](https://www.sickveg.com/2025/10/john-seymour-self-sufficient-gardener.html) _2025-10-12 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ Just when I thought I had read all the books by John Seymour that were pertinent to me I came across another. "The Self-Sufficient Gardener", which I should have discovered sooner, was referred to in Paul A.Lee's "There is a Garden in the Mind" - his memoir of Alan Chadwick and the Organic Movement in California. Published in 1978, two years after "The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency" (1976),… ## [Nature is One and Indivisible.](https://www.sickveg.com/2025/09/nature-is-one-and-indvisible.html) _2025-09-25 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ You'd have to have a hard heart not to chuckle at F.C. King's name. And this IS Sick Veg after all. I was delighted to find a cheap copy of this slender classic from 1951. I have restored it with a replica printed dust jacket. It was written in his capacity as the head gardener at Levens Hall in Kendall in Cumbria. King met Sir Albert when Howard was evacuated from his home in Blackheath, London… ## [Point once, get highlights (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/9wUFCd8iAHjD) _2025-09-25 · **Sponsored**_ Get minutes worth watching from a whole game — point once ## [Visionary Growers and Farmers of the Counterculture](https://www.sickveg.com/2025/09/visionary-growers-and-farmers-of.html) _2025-09-08 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ A clean version of the presentation I gave at Capel Manor College, Groundswell, Green Gathering, and The Organic Growers Gathering. ## [Winding things up](https://www.sickveg.com/2025/09/winding-things-up.html) _2025-09-06 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ I recently harvested my tomato crop and turned it into chutney. It seemed like a good moment to reflect on four years of growing. ## [Whole Earth Discipline](https://www.sickveg.com/2025/08/whole-earth-discipline.html) _2025-08-11 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ I’ve mentioned it before that one of the quirks of researching history is that you are usually only presented with information which draws you further into the past. Sometimes it is possible to be unaware of more recent events and discourse. This is how I belatedly encountered things such as the “Zig Zag Zen” book, a landmark retrospective survey of Psychedelics and Buddhism, and the phenomenon of… ## [Zig Zag Zen](https://www.sickveg.com/2025/08/zig-zag-zen.html) _2025-07-11 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ My research for “Retreat” was pretty exhaustive, however one thing you find researching a particular era is that all the references within books and among the rest of the material (interviews, articles, documentaries etc) only relate to then-contemporary or historic writing. So while it’s natural that research will lead you further into the past, it’s harder to discover more recent things which… ## [Jay Stevens (1953–2025)](https://www.sickveg.com/2025/06/jay-stevens-19532025.html) _2025-06-07 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ Jay Stevens in his kitchen in Vermont in 2022. For the past seven years, since 2018, my world has been dominated by work on the two books Retreat (2020) and The Garden (2025). There have been other projects during this time, the comic book TPM (2022) and my book about spirituality in alternative music, The “S” Word (2022), but these were essentially accompanying volumes to the big two. Not… ## [Munch’s Garden](https://www.sickveg.com/2025/06/munchs-garden.html) _2025-06-04 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ Mrs. Ingram and Celyn Brazier’s “Munch is Missing” is a total delight, a veritable banquet. The work involved in creating these books is mind-blowing. Commissioned by the MUNCH Museum in Oslo, Catherine went to exhaustive ends researching Munch and the cosmos which has woven itself around his art and ideas; even traveling to Norway to trace the artist’s steps. She painstakingly devised these… ## [Gravetye Manor](https://www.sickveg.com/2025/05/gravetye-manor.html) _2025-05-27 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ To visit William Robinson’s oval vegetable garden at Gravetye Manor, we had to eat an expensive lunch, because the hotel that runs the site doesn’t let people wander around otherwise. I think that, probably without question, this is the most important historic vegetable garden in the UK. Robinson (1838-1935), who reacted against the artificiality and strictures \[edit: and impracticality…\] of… ## [Save Soil Interview](https://www.sickveg.com/2025/04/save-soil.html) _2025-04-23 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ Sadhguru's Save Soil Article. Interview with Matthew Ingram - Author of 'The Garden' Apr 23, 2025 Save Soil was delighted to speak to Matthew Ingram about his fascinating new book, “The Garden: Visionary Growers and Farmers of the Counterculture”. The book explores the transformative journey of the 1970s countercultural farmers and growers whose radical practices redefined how we grow and eat… ## [JADAM Sulphur](https://www.sickveg.com/2025/04/jadam-sulphur.html) _2025-04-18 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ This is my third and final JADAM post. Beyond JADAM’s pesticide and JADAM Microorganism Solution the third preparation which has appealed to me is JADAM Sulphur . or JS for short. JS claims to be “Effective against black spot, pear rust, powdery mildew, downy mildew, etc.” That’s to say as an “organic” herbicide treating fungal problems. I don’t get much of this but what I do get I don’t like.… ## [NTS with Flo](https://www.sickveg.com/2025/04/nts-with-flo.html) _2025-04-16 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ Interview on NTS ## [Real Organic Project Interview](https://www.sickveg.com/2025/04/real-organic-project-interview.html) _2025-04-13 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ ## [Addicted to Humus](https://www.sickveg.com/2025/03/addicted-to-humus.html) _2025-03-31 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ Article for The Quietus Addicted to Humus: Matthew Ingram on the Revolutionary Potential of Compost Matthew Ingram, aka Woebot, is an author and researcher in countercultural history. He found his way into a wider study of countercultural activity from a start as a music journalist covering domestic avant-garde scenes like Jungle and Grime. His first major book, Retreat: How The Counterculture… ## [Hands on the Land](https://www.sickveg.com/2025/09/hands-on-land.html) _2025-03-20 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ Article for WWOOF Writing in a postscript to his classic book “The Fat of the Land” in 1974, self-sufficiency guru John Seymour proposed of his smallholding at Fachongle Isaf, “If there were enough people on it — enough hands — I believe that our seventy acres could produce a dozen times as much food as it did before.” Quite soon after this, in defiance of his wife Sally who had previously urged… ## [Unpublished Essay for the Soil Association](https://www.sickveg.com/2025/03/unpublished-essay-for-soil-association.html) _2025-03-07 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ The Organic Counterculture It seems like everybody wants to be the “real” rebel these days, ever since the idea of alternative culture proved to be the hottest-selling ticket in town. Did that process start with the rock group Nirvana’s “Nevermind” album, Apple’s “Think Different” advertising campaign, or the advent of social media platforms like “X”? Organic farmers and merchants must have… ## [Alan Watts](https://www.sickveg.com/2025/02/alan-watts.html) _2025-02-21 · Hollow Earth · Sick Veg_ Watts stack. With this, I am perhaps turning the last page on my research of the counterculture. When I finished “ Retreat ” I took a road which led me into the unusual terrain of self-help literature and the applications of psychoanalysis to business. That resulted in the comic book “ TPM ” which I remember as being incredibly satisfying to make. In due course, I’m going to do another print run…