It was an amazing opportunity to work with Tara from GoCollaborate and Steve Bibb from Barking Mad Productions on this documentary for the ABC.
About the Documentary
In the ABCs new documentary, Fightback Farmers: Feeding Australia Together, we explore three co-ops all borne out of circumstances.
Two of the three co-ops are new and still struggling to find their feet. They are Mountain Milk Co-operative in the Kiewa Valley of north eastern Victoria and the Limestone Coast Fishermens Co-operative in South Australia.
Mountain Milk was borne out of the collapse of the Murray Goulburn dairy empire. Limestone Coast Fishermens Co-operative was formed to fend off larger corporate approaches and support the local fishers through strength in numbers.
The third is a farmers co-op created to support the old Victorian tobacco industry. TAFCO is based in the town of Myrtleford. Now more than 30 years old, TAFCO struggled to survive when tobacco farming drew its last breath in 2006 until it found strength in the ideas and innovation of the farmers themselves.
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Fightback Farmers: Feeding Australia Together was made by independent production company Barking Mad, and was funded with the assistance of the Co-operative Farming project supported by the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment through funding from the Australian Governments Starting Farm Co-operatives Program.
