‘It takes more than one season
to grow a crop.’
Bill Kerr & everyone else
Urban idealist Amanda Rowland wanted to create a loaf
of bread from scratch that ticked all the boxes: it had to
be delicious, nutritious, and from paddock-to-plate aim to
enhance soil, plant and human nutrition while working with
notions of self-sufficiency and sustainability.
After meeting a few farmers, her idea took off in directions
she would never have envisaged.
Along the way Amanda encounters local legend Mary Maley
the Whole Wheat Queen, buys a tractor (who wouldn’t?)
and learns that there is no magic bullet to getting a good
yield. All cropping requires hard work, local knowhow – and
nothing succeeds if it doesn’t rain at the right times.
M M Maley, circa early 1900s