Overnight Oats
Your Organic Overnight Oats are made with all certified organic ingredients. Some of these ingredients have been sourced through our organic suppliers overseas and it’s not always possible to trace them directly to the individual farmer. However, the majority of ingredients in your Overnight Oats are the oats themselves. At Kialla, we always prefer to […]
Protein Smoothie Oats
Your Organic Protein Smoothie is made with all certified organic ingredients. Some of these ingredients have been sourced through our organic suppliers overseas and it’s not always possible to trace them directly to the individual farmer. However, the majority of ingredients in your smoothie mix are the oats themselves. At Kialla, we always prefer to […]
Derek and Fiona, Guyra, NSW
Derek and Fiona live and work about 40km from Guyra on the New England Tablelands of New South Wales. As a lifelong farmer, Derek has embraced natural farming as a way to solve problems the chemicals weren’t fixing. For 20 years he also shared his farming experience as an instructor at TAFE Armidale. Now he […]
Danny and Vicki, Westmar, Qld
Danny and Vicki grow wheat for Kialla on their 1721 hectare property near Westmar on the Western Downs. Danny’s father bought the farm in 1972, mostly for cattle, and Danny took it over in 1988 after his father died. He was encouraged to begin farming it organically by some of the same early organic pioneers […]
USA
This year we have needed to import buckwheat due to several bad seasons of dry weather followed by excessive rains here in Australia – extremes of anything are bad for farming. The buckwheat we have imported from the USA is grown all through the mid-west – it comes from North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Montana […]
Major, Goondiwindi, Qld
Although Major only got his full Organic Certification about 5 years ago he has essentially been farming organically for the past 30 years on his block, located about 90kms northeast of Goondi (as the locals call it). The farm is 913 hectares of pristine brigalow country – pristine in the sense that it has never […]
Ian and Jodi, Meckering, WA
Ian and Jodi farm 2000 hectares in Western Australia’s “Grain Belt” where they grow rye for Kialla. The farm is about 21km north of Meckering, and it’s only 150km to Perth. Ian grew up on a sheep and wheat station further north, while Jodi comes from New Zealand. They moved to their current farm in […]
Mitch & Nina, Ellangowan, Qld
Mitch & Nina farm 486Ha of beautiful alluvial black soil at Ellangowan on Queensland’s fertile Darling Downs. They started the 3-year conversion to organics in late 2015 after conducting research into human health and toxins, and the farm is now A-Grade certified organic. They grow millet for Kialla. Now they’ve converted over they absolutely love […]
Matt & Stephen, Springsure, Qld
Matt and Stephen grow various crops for Kialla, including mung beans, chick peas, barley, white sorghum and millet, on their farm about 50km south west of Springsure (Central Queensland). After growing up on the farm Matt became a diesel mechanic working in regional towns around the area while his father Stephen continued to grow crops […]
Geoff & Shirl, Thallon, Qld
Geoff and his wife Shirl have a 1400 hectare farm about 40km north of the NSW border, near the small town of Thallon on the Western Darling Downs. This is where they produce A-Grade Certified Organic wheat and rye for Kialla. Back in 2015 Geoff began growing wheat on land that hadn’t been fertilised artificially […]
Myles & Angus, Weengallon, Qld
Myles and his son Angus farm 810 hectares near the locale of Weengallon, east of the Nindigully Pub and not too far from the NSW border. While it still appears on the map, Weengallon itself no longer even has the store that earned it’s status on the map! Moving to their current property around 10 […]
Gary, Westmar, Qld
Gary farms about 250 hectares near St George in southwest Queensland, where he grows wheat, mung beans, sunflowers and buckwheat for Kialla. He has been farming organically since 2013, after leaving a teaching career at an agricultural college. His wife’s family has been long-established in organic farming and he actually share farms part of his […]
Steve, Harrisville, Qld
Steve farms 300 hectares in the lush Lockyer Valley between Brisbane and the Great Dividing Range. And while this farm may seem small in comparison to some of the farmers that grow for Kialla, the small size is more than compensated for by the fertility of the soil. This means he’s able to grow a […]
Geoff, Cecil Plains, Qld
Geoff initially went into organic farming after seeing the marked difference in price received for specialty organic grains. However he was also concerned about the quantity of chemicals he had to use on his conventional crops. They were having to spray them every week. He says “I didn’t like having all those chemicals all over […]
Bruce, Roma, Qld
Bruce, his wife and young children live some 60km outside of Roma. They’ve been farming organically for about a decade and he cites becoming a father and starting to think about the health of his young family as the turning point that had him convert to organics. His father bought a farm in the area […]