A sugar cane farming family on the Gold Coast has found a way to do well by doing less.
As the farming community shrinks along the South East Queensland corridor, the Keith family, who are based at Woongoolba and own the Rocky Point Sugar Mill, were constantly wondering ‘what next’ to keep their land and turn a profit. They have now diversified their business practice and offer a range of sustainable garden supplies for all home garden projects including organic gardening, potting plants, fruit and vegetable growing, suppressing weeds and more!
Local farmers have been doing it tough over the past ten years but recently published research by a team from QUT and Griffith University has unearthed a potential antidote to the problem.
Simply shifting investment decisions around equipment and processing could avoid future mill and farm closures in the state’s southeast.
Lead-researcher Ms Savindi Caldera, a doctoral researcher from QUT, said the findings
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