The Farm
Kitchen Farm will make productive use of 8 hectares of former agricultural land located in the power line buffer easement in the award-winning Newenham Estate. This land is not able to be used for housing development and is too expansive to be landscaped and maintained for passive recreation purposes. This farm will ultimately turn land that would otherwise be underutilised, into a quality agricultural productive asset which we hope will become a world leading example of the successful integration of food production and community sustainability in a greenfield residential development.
Regenerative and Permaculture principles will guide the agricultural practices of Kitchen Farm. If you would like to learn more, click on our masterplan below.
Nursery
Our Nursery is now open alongside our cafe, Kitchen Farm Pantry, 7 days a week. We offer a variety of seasonal edible seedlings, along with native plants and resilient garden species. All of our high quality plants are lovingly grown here in Newenham, nurtured with organic inputs and no chemicals or sprays. As we grow, so does our Nursery, promising more offerings in the future.
If you’re interested in purchasing in bulk, reach out to explore our wholesale options.
Garden
We have now started soil preparation on our 3 acre garden site, shown as Zone 1 on the Kitchen Farm Masterplan. Over the coming months we will start planting and propagating in this new area, so we can expand our range of edible seedlings, and native plants to our community as well as wholesale plants to local growers and produce for the Pantry.
Read more about the latest activity happening on this site.
Education
We are rolling out a suite of education services to help build our communities collective knowledge in natural farming, healthy cooking and gardening practices. Knowledge is power, and so education will be plentiful and include talks from keynote speakers, workshops, backyard consulting, school classes, and online learning materials.
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Verge Program
Newenham is committed to delivering abundantly planted verges with a diverse range of species to create a bio-diverse ecosystem to attract beneficial birds and insects in to the environment. Kitchen Farm is propagating plants as well as designing and planting these street verges. Community verge planting and maintenance programs and the introduction of edible plants into the verges helps to build community self-sufficiency and resilience as well as create community connection and wellbeing.
Green Team
The Green Team is our foundation community collaboration program. The Green Team initiative which falls into Community Living Australia’s NDIS funded Day-Options Program, has been designed to enable CLA’s clients to participate in activities to maximise their engagement with community and learn important social and job-ready skills within a safe and productive work environment. Their contribution is helping to establish the farm as well as assisting to beautify and maintain the environment within Newenham.
Farm with us
We will be looking to collaborate with like-minded farmers who share our values and ethos for natural and holistic farming and who would like to be involved in building a large-scale sustainable circular economy. Within the 8Ha of land available to us in Newenham, we plan on leasing farm plots, and collaborating with experienced practitioners in the space of bee-keeping, market gardening, chicken tractors, cut flowers, compost systems, animal grazing and production and even fruit tree orchards.
We have no limitations to our vision. If you are interested in finding out more please contact us to see how you may play a part.
The Farm Guy
Meet Kym Ormond, our ‘Farm Guy’, or more professionally known as Kitchen Farm’s Nursery and Market Garden Production Manager.
Some of you may know Kym from his former business, ‘Port Adelaide Food Gardening’, which he and his wife, Jenny, started back in 2019. With the ambition originally being to build and install custom wicking beds with a small pop-up plant nursery, the plants eventually outgrew the wicking beds and turned the business into a thriving nursery and a great meeting spot for community, in the heart of Port Adelaide.
When Farm Founder, Olivia Burke, introduced the vision to Kym, he immediately saw the potential for something truly shape-shifting and legacy creating for the region. Kym and his family didn’t hesitate to jump on board, and made the tree-change in January 2023. With his exuberant energy, exceptional knowledge for plants and permaculture and connections in the industry, Kym is now tasked with bringing the farm vision to life.
Check out an interview with Kym and Aussie Green Thumb here.