Growing our Future

Growing our Future

Kempsey High School Agricultural Program Its 8.15am at Kempsey High and the Agricultural program is already in full swing. Cattle are being yarded and moved through the crush, head stalls are fitted, and like a well-oiled machine everyone works together to get the job...
Sweet Water Sweet Life

Sweet Water Sweet Life

Sweet Water Farm Organic Garlic Marcus Skipper and Sally Ayre Smith made the sea change to Sweet Water Farm eight years ago with no previous experience in farming and no idea as to what they might do to generate a livelihood. What they did know was that they wanted to...

Micro Agri forum draws a crowd

Originally Published: Macleay Argus By Kieran Moran Sept. 25, 2015 A CROWD of more than seventy locals attended the Kempsey Shire Council’s MicroAgri Forum held at Kempsey Showgrounds this week. The event was part of the Healthy Communities program aimed at building...
Oh Deer – Mesopotamia Deer Farm

Oh Deer – Mesopotamia Deer Farm

The Macleay Valley was once home to one of the largest farmed deer populations in Australia, but low domestic uptake and challenges in developing the export market saw numbers decline. Mesopotamia Lodge is one of the two remaining commercial breeders locally and has...