Community Owned Farming Enterprise (COFE - Now Soil City) Co - Op - Scotty Foster 2020 - 04 - 17 BTL

Soil City Co-operative Farms is being developed in Canberra, Australia by Co-ops, Commons and Communities Canberra, or CoCanberra. In this interview it is referred to by its interim working name, the "COFE" (Community Owned Farming Enterprise) Coop. They aim to: Provide a stable, secure and attractive living for farmers, using the tools of: Community ownership of land Regenerative culture Healing the earth / Care for the land / Regenerative farming Localism - Local food production and ownership Education of our members Providing a stable, secure and attractive food production system for people, using the tools of: Connecting people with the sources of their food Sharing risk with the farmers through the co-operative Food sovereignty (ownership and control of our food production system) Education of the broader community Our own Scotty Foster joined us with his CoCanberra hat on, to have a yarn about Soil City.