The Self-Sufficient Farmer

19/11/2025

Cooooeeee! Visitors to Tassie.
Our Introduction to Good Heart Living™ certificate is up for this summer.

Want to learn how to live out in the wilderness? You don’t need a lot of money to live this way. Learn how to live on a little but have a big life.

Learn how to Grow your food organically, Forage and Wildcraft, Identify the Tasmanian plants, trees and animals, hammer a nail, make useful items and preserve your food. Learn about Country Herb Lore (including Herbs for First Aid) and Backwoods Herbalism, Nursery skills for propagating plants, Technology for self-sufficiency (Low-cost Solar power, Solar oven and Rocket stove) and all about our forests and what each type of tree is useful for.

The best thing about this short course is that the time in nature will rest and re-wild your heart.

One weekend that is sure to be an eye-opener.

Learn how to really live.

Friday afternoon is check-in after 4pm.
Start dates for
December are Dec 5,12,19 and 26th
January 2,9,16,23, and 30th
February 6,13,20 and 27th
Friday check in after 3pm in Autumn
March 6,13,20 and 27th
April 3,10,17 and 24th
May 1,8,15 and 22nd

Best watch out for zombies! (Two Friday the 13th’s.)

Good Heart Farm™
Australia’s first Community Farm™

TM Mama Earth Pty Ltd ACN 146 054 828.

24/05/2025

You can stockpile all the vegetables you like, but do you know how you're going to cook and preserve them if you're without power for months on end?If the power grid fails, it’s not just your lights that will go out. Your water supply, heating and cooling systems, and even your usual ways of cooki...

06/07/2022

Want to live in a cabin in the Woods? Can't live in it full time until the SHTF. It will be temporary accommodation for a forestry or farm worker.

05/05/2022

Hi Everyone. We are offering training for this winter for off-grid self-sufficiency, prepping and survival in the wilderness of Tasmania. We have 200acres of regrowth pine forest overlooking the Tarkine rainforest. Looking for people who want to learn about cool-climate self-sufficiency. It will be cold and can snow but what we teach you won’t find anywhere else. Please see the photo below. If you are interested please contact Lisa or Gavin on [email protected] or txt 0459 263 525.

11/05/2020

Coming out of lockdown probably looks a little like this, huh?

27/11/2018

That's not a cow - This is a cow. "Knickers" down on the farm!

At 194 cm high, a WA-born steer called Knickers avoids the knackery because of his size.