HERITAGE FARM family
By Erica Louise Photos Gary Sissons
R
ach Koch and Matt Taylor share the joys of living at Heritage Farm with their young toddler, a paddock full
of sheep, flocks of chickens, ducks and a handful of rescued alpacas. Organic farming may not be a typical career choice for many young couples, but Rach and Matt have been hard at work since 2017 after purchasing their 20-acre farm property in Moorooduc.
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They are proud of all they have achieved at Heritage Farm given. when they started, the farm’s soil quality fell within the bottom 9% of the country. Now they have created one of the few organic farms in the region and grow fine produce. For Rach, the seeds for her career were sown as a child when she first read Enid Blyton’s book The Children of Cherry Tree Farm. It wasn’t until she was studying Arts and Science at university that she opened her first book on permaculture.
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August 2020