Author: Bee Winfield

Merri Bee Organic Farmacy is a permaculture & ecosystem that’s been developing over the past 34 years. With over 100 species of fruit, nut and fiber tree now established, Stewart Seesink and Bee Winfield's passion is regenerating healthy top soil on this land which adjoins the Blackwood River in Nannup. We are excited to be part of the growing fair food movement, providing nutrient dense food and teaching soil building skills so we can all grow in health and happiness. The ever- expanding food forest is supporting us, our animals, and loyal customers who care for the environment, animal welfare and their own vitality. Stew and Bee are regular stall holders at Margaret River Farmers market and sell a diverse range of produce from compost rich soil: fully tree ripened fruit ( fresh and dried), vegetables, nuts, and pastured eggs, meat and dairy from animals who enjoy clean pastures and certified organic grains.The 27 acre farm in Nannup is complimented recently by 50 acres in Karridale. Both properties are tested free of pesticide residues and heavy metals. We were certified organic a decade with NASAA, and continue to comply with all organic standards .The farm is based on the wisdom of people like Bill Mollison , Allan Savoury ,(Jerry Brunetti, Vandana Shiva, and Weston A Price . According to Dr Price's studies, pastured animal products are essential for optimal health Modern medicine is now catching up with the truth of ancient Hippocrates who said “All disease begins in the gut”.Widespread regenerative agriculture is our greatest hope to reverse climate change and the global epidemics of cancer, diabetes, obesity, mental illness and more. “Let food be thy medicine", said Hippocrates. Merri Bee Organic produce certainly is preventative medicine. Email beewinfield@westnet.com.au to be placed on our list and meet up with us at a location near you soon

Rabbit Fricassee

What do you call this love??    RABBIT. How to make Rabbit Fricassee.     Or….getting your own back when Peter Rabbit eats all your carrot tops off .  This is an example of a GAPS meal suitable for stage one of Intro and all the way to full GAPS. All ingredients must be organic…. this is a…

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Save the Yarragadee

“All governments are only interested in centralised control ” Bill Mollison The Water Corporation want to increase the water they pump from the Yarragadee by a factor of 3. They dont know what this will do to shallow aquifers, forest, rivers and surface water. “The  Warren Blackwood regional water supply scheme, historically relied on independent…

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Raw Honey from Merri Bee Organic Farmacy

There are places in the world where honey is revered for it’s medicinal qualities, and some types particularly so. Carob honey and Jujube or Sidr honey are 2 cases in point. It so happens that both are being produced on a wild and isolated permaculture in Nannup Western Australia. Tough carobs, olives and oaks were…

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It’s Crunch Time.

I recently qualified as a certified GAPS coach, but for 37 years our farm in Nannup has been increasing diversity in the plant, animal and fungal worlds whilst continuously building living soil. We believe health is Mother Nature’s laws obeyed and we champion a healthy environment, freedom and a healthy democracy. We grow organic, raw,…

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It’s May !

Harvest season .  Some wonderful early rain in a few big doses but long warm spells in between has the farm looking lovely. We are all dealing with so much these days, hope you enjoy these scenes from the Farmacy . May is the month that Fuerte avos can be picked, and hooray for them….

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DAIRY, FRIEND OR FOE

DAIRY, FOOD OR FOE ?Are we grown- ups meant to eat dairy food? This is a very controversial and multi-faceted question, and the best biological answer as always is “It depends”. The answer depends on whether the milk was produced organically or conventionally; on your genes and allergies as well as the state of your…

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Garlic is Wonderful

Gratitude for Garlic There may be one good thing about  social distancing …it is a  good time to do a course of garlic cloves. GAPS practitioners use garlic as an antibiotic, because it is a powerfully good, registered anti biotic which ONLY kills the  bad bugs, not all your beneficial bugs as well. What a…

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Merri Bee Organic Farmacy Nursery

We grow organic plants and animals for your permaculture. From house cows to garlic bulbs, we are working on it. As an avid gardener I use to spend a fortune at nurseries but I began to realise that the beautiful and abundant blooms in punnets and pots were achieved by a LOT of chemicals. Some…

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Perennial Pasture establishment

It’s time to think about the coming wet season, and growing a prairie. Why? Because prairies actually sequester more carbon than forests. Both are sorely needed and we humans must grow them to replace what we have destroyed and rebuild our soil resource, or go the way of the White Pointer. Prairies are amazingly diverse….

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