Hill Top Farm
Farm Tours and Practical Courses
Take a farm tour while camping at Hill Top Farm. Or better still, get together with a few friends and enjoy a long weekend or week in Cooktown, learning how to grow food eco-logically!
Farm Tours
Growing food is a great idea... But what about the work?Sometimes it seems less trouble and cheaper to swing by the supermarket to have food in the fridge ready for when we come home tired and hungry.
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There is a solution that is remarkably straightforward. Discover how we are restoring Nature's FREE ecological services and explore ways to also grow food eco-logically in your garden and farm.
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Tours $110 - 60-90 minutes depending on our conversation! Please note the cost is per tour not per person. Max 10 persons.
Grow Food with Healthy Soil Ecosystems
While our soils don't show the customary signs of soil degradation, we struggle to grow strong, pest and disease-resistant plants and nutrient-dense food. And have trouble growing anything when the weather turns bad! It's difficult to appreciate what we can achieve, as virtually all of us grow food in soil that no longer functions properly. Our soil ecosystems have been in poor working order for so long that we've forgotten about the FREE services functioning soil ecosystems naturally provide.
In this two-day hands-on course, you'll apply the scientific principles to design your vegetable garden to give your soil organisms a better diet! They can then get on with the job for which they have had millions of years of training - maintaining the soil infrastructure and feeding your plants!
Create A Self-Sustainable Garden
Reduce the costs of growing food for your family and our environment by repairing the ecosystems in your food garden.
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In this five-day hands-on course, you'll apply the scientific eco-logical principles step back from cultivating soil, and applying pest controls, fertilisers and other inputs, relying instead on Nature's free ecological services.
You'll learn how to harvest healthy food with your soils naturally supplying nutrients to your plants, with insects and birds controlling most of your pests. And better battle the storms of climate change!