Our Mates’ Farm is a certified organic farm located in the Huon Valley in southern Tasmania. Here our family grows a large variety of eating and cider apples. We breed cattle and sheep and we raise free range rare breed pigs on pasture and feed them apples.
We are passionate about everything we produce, and enjoy showing people our farming system. We want to show you that there is a better way to buy food, straight from the farm, where you know exactly how it is grown.
![[A Call to Action for Tasmanians] As you may be aware, local meat producers of all sizes have been facing many challenges getting their livestock processed in Tasmania. These challenges have led to more stress and cases of poor treatment of animals, which also leads to lower quality meat, higher “food miles”, loss of local jobs, skills and small farms, as well as reduced “paddock to plate” tourism and hospitality opportunities. As a result, a group of small producers have started a petition to the Tasmanian parliament calling on the Government to introduce legislation to facilitate and encourage best practice on-farm, local and regional slaughter, meat processing and waste disposal. We are also calling on the Government to fund appropriate training and accreditation for producers and workers throughout the supply chain. If you follow us here at Our Mates’ Farm, you know that our local abattoir closed in November last year. And over the past 10 months we’ve put in extra hours (and kms!) to get our animals to an abattoir, then onward to be processed, then the freight back!, so that we could continue to provide our customers with our pork, beef & lamb. While we have taken a little hiatus, other farmer mates have been affected again by a poorly communicated 3-week closure of the “re-opened” local abattoir. This is after they have finally managed to schedule in their customer orders! If you value access to local, ethically-produced meat and live in Tasmania, please consider filling out the e-petition here: https://bit.ly/4eZgrH0. (You will also find the link in our profile bio.) #farmingsystems #locavore #ethicalomnivore #ethicalfarming #paddocktoplate #smallfarms #tasmanianfarmers #tasmanianag #straightfromthefarmer #buydirect #buylocal #regenerativeagriculture #localfoodsystems #customersupport (📄 by @ozbenson)](https://www.ourmatesfarm.com/wp-content/plugins/instagram-feed/img/placeholder.png)