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2015-2025: A very short recap

Back in 2015, we worried about regulations & corporations that made it difficult for livestock farmers to build or access processing facilities. Now there are on-farm butcher’s shops and even abattoirs across the country, and state governments are supporting us!

Market gardeners had it easy on the regulation front in 2015, but worried about the risks & realities of burn out in what can be back-breaking toil. But FSANZ made the veg farmers fellow victims of scale-inappropriate regs with the ‘licence to sell lettuce’. But because we are collectivised, we won exemptions for the little guys.

Allies shared initiatives to help connect growers & eaters, and we debated whether an aggregated box scheme can be called a CSA (no, said CSA farmers, though there are many wonderful box schemes). Our allies have grown in number and deepened in solidarity every year.