Bauer’s Organic Farm

Thursday, December 8th, 2016 | crankit

Lockyer Valley, Queensland

Bauer’s Organic Farm take great pride in producing top quality, award-winning, delicious tasting vegies in the fertile Lockyer Valley.  Rob Bauer’s a dead-set champion of organic farming in Australia and we’re proud to call him our friend, colleague and supplier for over a decade, sending us award winning spuds, carrots, celery, garlic, pumpkin and more.

Originally settled by the Bauer family in 1885, Rob’s the 4th generation to farm this land, his sons the 5th and his grandchildren the 6th. “I started growing organically over 30 years ago after initially farming with chemicals as my father had done,”says Rob.  “At that time there wasn’t really a market for organic produce but I felt that there wasn’t much future (literally) in doing it the chemical way.  Too many of my local farming neighbours were ending up with cancer and leukaemia and dying in their 50’s and 60’s.

I started to think about how the Aboriginal people lived here and ate from the land …. our farms are all on Blackfellow Creek. I also thought about how my grandparents and great-grandparents farmed here.  They did it organically!  There were no chemicals around and with some of the best soil in the world here in this valley, they grew beautiful crops. Organic is nothing new, it’s just the way our ancestors farmed. I’m especially pleased that little kids who don’t really have a say in what they eat are now getting our nutritious vegies free of chemicals, GMO’s and other nasties.  Just pure, wholesome food.”