Improving soil health is so important because soil health is what leads to healthier food, and we are what we eat”  

3rd generation farmer Kelvin Free with his wife Deanne and son Nathan run and manage Mallee Organic Farms in the Tresco area which comprises 160ha of stone fruit and vegetable production and irrigated lucerne. With an increasing demand for organic produce, the Free family converted to certified organic in 2010.  Since then, the family have built full control of their produce from production, marketing and then selling, with their produce found in Coles, and Woolworths. 

Through hard-earned experience Kelvin has seen the huge benefits of increasing soil health; and believes that their farm-produced compost is an integral part of this improvement.