Media
Farm Raiser has been making headlines for all the right reasons - from our innovative urban farming model to the way we bring people together through food, learning, and community.
Explore stories, features, and interviews that shine a light on the people, produce, and purpose behind the farm.
Postcards - May 2025
Channel Nine. Episode 12
Segment starts at 14 minutes
Shane Delia from Channel 9’s Postcards visits Farm Raiser to talk about fresh produce, why we farm in the city and how you can get your hands on our veggies.
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Gardening Australia -
March 2025
ABC TV. Series 36, Episode 4
In Melbourne’s north-eastern suburb of Bellfield is an operation called Farm Raiser, which grows crops on an acre of land.
Triple R (3RRR) Radio - February 2025
Episode of ‘Uncommon Sense’
Listen from 1hr 13mins to catch the interview
Eve talks to Justine Costigan about the establishment of Farm Raiser, our current programs and the turbulence and joys of farming.
Frankie Magazine - March 2023
Issue 112, ‘Farm Raiser’ article
The Farm Raiser crew first met while studying at the University of Melbourne’s Burnley Horticultural College, and bonded over a desire to grow food in the city. After uni, they each went their separate ways to gain experience before regrouping and starting their not-for-profit farm in 2018, in the Melbourne suburb of Bellfield.
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ABC Radio National - January 2022
Episode of ‘Blueprint For Living’ program
Presented by Jonathan Green. At the back of a school, surrounded by suburban streets, three young urban farmers are cultivating a market garden. Farm Raiser is the project of three horticulturalists interested in community building and environmental sustainability. Jonathan paid a visit to the site and was humbled by the amount of spinach a small farm could produce.
Triple R (3RRR) Radio - August 2018
Podcast episode of ‘Greening the Apocalypse’
Adam, Peta and Jed chat to Dr. Chris Williams and student Charlotte Bartlett-Wynne from Burnley Campus of Melbourne University's Urban Horticulture associate degree. Along with Pat Turnbull and Kirsty Edwards, they have started the not-for-profit Farm Raiser, an organisation that sets up market gardens on vacant, underutilised land.
