Just a short drive west of Inverell sits a property with aspirations to make sustainable, healthy eating attainable for everybody and to take that model and share it across Australia.
Evergrow Componics Farm is 50 acres of diverse, interconnected practices designed by Steve Bigg and Alison Heagney. They have invested their heads and hearts in the project, with an intent to develop achievable, semi-intensive practices for everyday people to produce healthy food from start to finish.
"Componics model is community, complete, and then compost. It's a complete model, fitting in all the regenerative, sustainable practices, as much as we can," Steve said.
The centerpiece of the farm is the Evergrow Farm Hub, a grand communal structure Steve purpose-built. From the large windows and big, sliding wood doors, visitors can look out toward the vegetable patches, grow houses, Dexter cattle, Saanen and British Alpine dairy goats, and flocks of heritage breed chooks, each connecting back to Evergrow's intent.
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