ABOUT OUR FAMILY FARM
Coming Home Farm | Clyde, Victoria
Hi, We're Ken, Jen, and Wright children. We are a homeschooling family of nine. Mum, Dad and our seven children. Our farm is small, local and built from the ground up through real life, real learning and a long road of rebuilding what food, community and provision mean to us.
Our farming story began in 2021 during the lockdowns. We were running a community food co-op at the time, sourcing produce from a local farmer. That season opened our eyes to how the food system actually works. We saw the gaps. We saw the strain on families. And we saw how important it is to have real food grown close to home.
In 2022 we took over that same local farm business. It had been a market garden and farmgate for four years. We stepped in with a market garden blueprint heavily influenced and built by the model & works of Jean Martin Fortier, Curtis Stone, Neversink Farms and a willingness to learn how to run it the exact same way.
By the end of 2023 we closed the farmers market and farmgate shop, and shifted into online vegetable boxes across Victoria, as well as a shopfront on the main shopping strip. It was an ambitious model and we gave it everything we had, but by the end of 2024 it was clear that it wasn’t sustainable for our family. We made the hard decision to close and start again.
In 2025 we re-opened as a farmgate boxes only. Smaller. Closer. More local. More aligned with the way we actually live. We now grow a small range of regenerative organic vegetables using no-till, open-pollinated seed and soil building practices. What we don’t grow ourselves we source from a small co-op of certified organic vegetable farmers and biodynamic fruit growers. We also produce our own teas & honey. Our farmgate hub includes whole foods pantry essentials, dairy, eggs, herbal teas and honey, with free local delivery.
Our approach to farming comes from two places. One is regeneration. We focus on soil health, nutrient density, low-impact growing and reducing food miles. The other is connection. A lot of our thinking has been shaped by the idea of reconnecting families with real food, and through a cultural & community lens.
The second foundation of our work is something we call The Provision Model. It is our way of understanding the home as the smallest ecosystem of life. Our farm is an expression of this. Growing food. Feeding families. Staying close to home. Keeping things simple. Being part of a local, household-scaled food economy.
Farming is also a big part of our homeschool life. Our children learn through real work, real soil, science, maths, observation, problem solving and the STEM framework that naturally comes with growing food. The farm has become our classroom, our workplace and our daily rhythm.
We offer a free online “Grow Your Own Food” program because we believe food knowledge belongs to everyone. You do not need acres to participate in food culture. You only need a small space and the willingness to reconnect with the food you eat.
Coming Home Farm is exactly what the name says. A remembrance. A return to HOME. A return to what is possible. A return to feeding our families well. Everything we do flows from that.