Appendix C- Farm Story

368 Kinmond Creek Farm Story

What are you going to farm?
With consideration, we will be organically farming Alliums with a specific focus on softneck
subtropical garlic varieties, both GlenLarge and Giant Russian Garlic as a cool season

crop, and Culinary Ginger (Zingiber officinale) and Turmeric as warm season crops.

Garlic

These types of subtropical garlic grow well in Queensland. They are unique in their lack of
chill requirement that all other temperate, cool and cold climate garlics require and for
their short growing season of only 5-6 months in warm climates. Expected Garlic yields in

Australia are currently between 3000 kg - 5000 kg per acre.

Ginger

Ginger is a hardy tropical crop and therefore grows particularly well in the subtropics. It
also grows well in areas that experience a dry season, provided there is irrigation. The
majority of Queensland’s ginger farms are located along coastal areas such as the
Sunshine Coast that experience high temperatures and humidity, and high rainfall during
summer. Ginger is a warm climate plant and its growing season is approximately 5-6
months in ideal conditions. Expected Ginger yields in Australia are currently between
10,000kg -15,000kg per acre.

Turmeric

Turmeric is part of the Ginger or ‘Zingiberaceae’ family of plants, commonly used for
culinary or medicinal purposes. Although Turmeric enjoys the same climate and growing
conditions as Ginger, Australia currently imports most of its Turmeric from India, Vietnam
and Indonesia and local organic Noosa Turmeric is often extremely hard to purchase.
Expected Tumeric yields in Australia are currently between 3,000 to 6,000 kilograms per

acre.

How are you going to do it? What will the process be?

The land has stood idle, not being farmed for well over a decade and previously was used
to intensively grow sugar cane. Sugar cane has a high fertility requirement, as a result of
cane farming the land and soil quality is deficient in nutrients. Considerable rehabilitation
work is needed to bring the soil quality up to a fertile standard, as well as the soil levels

needing to be adjusted as the old mounds sugarcane was grown in are still present.