“Welcome to the home of TYIRRIMA Farm”…
Hello! Thanks for visiting us at "Tyirrima", Ravensbourne, South-east Queensland. We purchased this 110 acre property in 1999, and have worked to enhance its existing values as a wildlife habitat, but also utilised the existing cleared areas to build a
house and sheds, and most importantly, grow our food crops. Poised on the edge of the Great Dividing Range, "Tyirrima" sits between the quite humid climate of coastal South-east Queensland and the drier Darling Downs/Granite Belt area with its much cooler winters. As a result of living in this 'ecotone' in terms of soil/vegetation, as well as climate, we have the best of both worlds… and so are able to grow a wide range of plants from the sub-tropical and temperate zones. Our main commercial crop is garlic.
Recently
we’ve adopted Biodynamic principles of farming/gardening… ‘the ultimate method
of organic production’. Biodynamics allows the farmer
to build up the soil health, and therefore plant health/productivity, in a way
that works with the forces and cycles of nature and minimises the need for
external inputs. After achieving a high
degree of self-sufficiency in the range of vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds and
grains that we produce, Biodynamics is therefore the next logical step in
‘closing the loop’.
