AFTER selling his sister’s organic sweet potatoes at his Brisbane market stall Nathan Wulff decided it was time he had a go at the horticulture game too.
Nathan along with his father Ole Wulff purchased a 16 hectare property at Churchable, outside of Gatton in February this year and have started planting capsicums, eggplant and tomatoes.
The property has an 800m2 greenhouse and the produce will be graphed to better understand the plants growth and soil conditions and the duo are currently in the process of becoming certified organic growers.
They are by no means farming rookies with Ole working on a mixed farm operation in South Africa before moving to Australia in 1975.
Plans for expansion are already on the duo’s list but Nathan said the soil needed improvement before anything further could go ahead.
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In a bid to overcome the issue 1300 chickens will soon call the property home with the first batch of 450 to arrive soon.
The chickens will also be used for their eggs.
Nathan has been selling his sister’s sweet potatoes at a market at Norley Street in Brisbane.
He said he hoped to do the same with their new produce along with selling direct to restaurants.
“It feels like it fits (this new venture),” he said.
“I have a little wholesale business in Brisbane and we sell direct to health food stores and stuff like that so we will probably start doing that again.”
The Wulff duo were at the Queensland Country Life’s Food Heroes event at Koala Farms, Gatton to understand what goes into large scale operations.