A Life Shaped by Food, Farming and Plants

My connection to plants began long before FarmacyCo existed.

I grew up in a family deeply connected to the land. Farming, gardening, preserving food and making things from scratch weren’t trends or lifestyle choices, they were simply part of everyday life. Those early experiences planted a seed that would continue to grow throughout my life.

My career began in food. As a young apprentice chef, I learned that the best ingredients tell a story of place, season and care. That passion for food eventually led me into hospitality, tourism and later horticulture, where I discovered that growing exceptional ingredients was every bit as rewarding as cooking them.

Over the years I have worked across food production, farming, hospitality, education and business development. I’ve helped businesses grow, advised entrepreneurs and built businesses of my own. Along the way I became fascinated by the plants that nourish us, not only as food, but as medicine.

Some of my greatest lessons came through success. Others came through loss.

After building Australia’s pioneering cultured butter business and raising significant investment to expand the company, I found myself unexpectedly separated from the business I had helped create. It was one of the most challenging experiences of my life. Yet looking back, it also became the catalyst for something new.

That experience led me back to what had always grounded me: growing plants, working with my hands and reconnecting with the land.

Today, together with my family, I am creating FarmacyCo in Eldorado, Victoria—a place dedicated to growing, harvesting and using plants for food and medicine.

Here you’ll find medicinal herbs, edible flowers, seasonal vegetables, fruit trees and a growing collection of useful plants that thrive in cool temperate climates. You’ll also find the lessons I’ve gathered through decades of experience in food, farming and business.

My goal isn’t simply to teach people how to grow plants.

It’s to help people rediscover the confidence that comes from growing something themselves.

To understand where their food comes from.

To learn how plants can support health and wellbeing.

To create opportunities, income and community through the simple act of growing.

FarmacyCo is still evolving. The gardens are growing, new projects are underway and there is always another experiment happening somewhere in the paddock.

I hope you’ll join me on the journey.

Because I believe a garden can do far more than produce food.

It can nourish people, strengthen communities and reconnect us with what matters most.

1980s–1990s

  • Hospitality and food

1999

  • Returned to regional Victoria
  • Studied horticulture

2000s

  • Farm-to-table restaurant
  • Kitchen Garden Foundation

2010s

  • Cultured butter business
  • Churchill Fellowship

2020

  • FarmacyCo launched as Retail store and Apothecary

2025

  • The FarmacyCo farm begins in Eldorado