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Phoebe East

Tell us a bit about yourself and what you do. I’m a biodynamic flower farmer and florist, growing flowers on my farm for my floristry studio, Alchemilla.

Can you tell us about your farm? Alchemilla is on Gulidjan land in south-west Victoria. It’s a micro farm of about a quarter of an acre, meaning that it’s high production in a small area, with each little part of growing space considered. This is my third year farming on this particular pocket of land. I grew up on a farm about 10 minutes away and, though I’ve lived in many other places since, living back here on the land has

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