{"id":110,"date":"2014-06-16T01:16:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merribee.swcomputerlab.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/16\/chef-sean-carter-asked-me-merri-bee-what-are-you-on-about\/"},"modified":"2014-06-16T01:16:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T01:16:00","slug":"chef-sean-carter-asked-me-merri-bee-what-are-you-on-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merribeeorganicfarm.net.au\/index.php\/2014\/06\/16\/chef-sean-carter-asked-me-merri-bee-what-are-you-on-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Chef Sean Carter asked me: Merri Bee , what are you on about?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bee and Stewart (Merri Bee Organic Farm) recently leapt at the\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0invitation to join fabulous chef Sean Carter, Muster Bar & Grill, on the From Paddock to Plate stage at the Nannup Flower & Garden Festival 2014, with favorite \u00a0radio personality Louise Fitzroy (now engaged in promoting fresh produce with her \u00a0Paddock to Plate initiative).<\/p>\n
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Bee will appear on Friday 15 August,\u00a011:35am \u2013 12:20pm.\u00a0<\/span>Sean will be cooking a shoulder of \u00a0pastured pork \u00a0and some scrumptious herbs and veges straight from Merri Bee Organic Farm \u00a0.His idea for the dish sounds amazing:\u00a0“<\/span>a fennel & black pepper rubbed rolled pork shoulder with confit fennel, wilted kale and thyme infused roasted shallots” And a pork jus!<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>And we all get a taste at the end!
Stew will be serving up \u00a0meals all weekend, maybe not so fancy but it is hard to go wrong with ingredients straight from nature, so look out for the \u00a0yellow Organic food van.
\u00a0Says Bee “Sean asked us what we are up to . As I often wonder just what I am doing in life I \u00a0had to think about our mission. So here it is:
Merri Bee Organic farm\u00a0 honours the living systems of planet Earth. We want to rebuild the soil and \u00a0provide \u00a0families with real, natural, healthy food, We want to teach people how to do this in their yards and grow a lot more of their own food. We can’t afford to suffer \u00a0the green-washed, health-washed, \u00a0toxic, low taste- and- nutrient \u201dfood\u201d in piles of gaily coloured \u00a0packaging from a health or environmental \u00a0aspect and lets face facts, all processed food contains GMOs and it only comes to us via the dwindling supply of fossil fuel.<\/span><\/div>\n

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\u00a0It is agribusiness which has largely \u00a0brought about the\u00a0 mass extinction event currently taking place on Earth. \u00a0 This is the 6th<\/sup> in our planet’s 4.5 billion year history, and this time it is not caused by volcanic activity\u00a0 or meteor impact , but by humans eating.
\u00a0Frankly, many farmers are brainwashed by chemical companies to believe synthetic fertilizer and chemical inputs are essential. \u00a0Tons of toxins are entering the landscape \u00a0causing \u00a0of not only massive biodiversity loss, but also CC (climate change) as eve soil microbes are killed. Farmers are both the unwitting perpetrators \u00a0and the first\u00a0 victims of \u00a0CC. Farmer suicides in Australia numbered one every 4 days in 2009. In the past 5 years 4,000 of Western Australia\u2019s 10,000 farmers have walked off their land . In addition, the \u201cfood\u201d from conventional systems\u00a0 is the cause of\u00a0 unprecedented malaise and apathy in the human population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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the pigs are in here, \u00a0really<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u00a0How amazing then that farmers turn out to be THE ones who could single handedly save our Earth! \u00a0Farmers control vast areas of land and as such control our climate. By fostering instead of killing soil microbes, farmers alone can sequester \u00a0our carbon emissions \u00a0back to the Earth. Farmers \u00a0teaming with microbes are our only hope: \u00a0http:\/\/rodaleinstitute.org\/our-work\/farming-systems-trial\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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A curly tail means a happy pig.\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u00a0For further info on the power of soil to soak up atmospheric carbon and methane see
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We believe Permaculture can heal the ecosystems which drive climate\u00a0 and our health . \u00a0Our dream is to help increase this \u00a0eco-literacy in the community.<\/span><\/div>\n

<\/a>We\u00a0 teach the skills and techniques of permaculture and\u00a0supply seeds to grow\u00a0 food forests which will re-cloth the earth with green plants ASAP .<\/div>\n

\u00a0That organics becomes mainstream is a matter of survival now. But real food doesn’t come cheap, and we have become accustomed to spending \u00a0less on food and more on doctors and hospitals than ever before.<\/p>\n

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Grown in super rich compost, Merri Bee Organic plants ( and the animals who eat those plants)\u00a0 contain every known and unknown nutrient, and come complete with an array of\u00a0 beneficial microbes so essential but missing from modern agricultural soils and produce. \u00a0The same sets of beneficial \u00a0organisms\u00a0 populate the soil and our intestines when we eat these plants. \u00a0They out-compete pathogens and protect us from disease. Just as a healthy plant does not put out the stress signals\u00a0 which attract pest and disease, (making \u00a0 pesticides \u00a0obselete),so pharmacueticals become obselete for organic gardeners and consumers.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The products of a permaculture grow exponentially as the system matures. Although in its infancy at 30 years old, we have some exciting new food and drink discoveries from our permaculture to share with Sean, Louise and you all \u00a0on Friday August 15. Yours in \u00a0glowing health , happiness and hopes for a brighter future “<\/p>\n

\u00a0Bee and Stew.<\/p>\n

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Bee and Stewart (Merri Bee Organic Farm) recently leapt at the\u00a0\u00a0invitation to join fabulous chef Sean Carter, Muster Bar & Grill, on the From Paddock to Plate stage at the Nannup Flower & Garden Festival 2014, with favorite \u00a0radio personality Louise Fitzroy (now engaged in promoting fresh produce with her \u00a0Paddock to Plate initiative). Bee… <\/p>\n

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