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Food for Thought

The best ideas often feel inevitable, don't they? Concepts so smart, so simple and so clearly needed, it's bizarre to discover they don't already exist. So it is with Farm My School, on Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula, that's turning underutilised land at secondary schools into commercially viable, regenerative market gardens farmed by and for local communities.

Co-founded by permaculturist Ben Shaw and regenerative educator James McLennan, Farm My School began in 2018 as a way

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