A Vision for the Future
Interview with Martin Royds, owner and developer of Tombarra
Tombarra is an ideal opportunity to bring together all my thinking and ideas regarding new ways forward for agriculture. That is, working with the land to regenerate, conserve, sustain and reconnect, as practiced at my property Jillamatong.
Tombarra is the perfect location for an accommodation and meeting venue. it was created in the 1980s as a family bush holiday retreat on the Mongarlowe River, in a lovely bush setting with a dam and a number of individual small cabins. Over the years we have restyled and updated the cabins and reconstructed other aspects of this idyllic space. We have a wonderful rustic style and also very functional workshop space, with a versatile small scale commercial kitchen and food prep area.
The vision: We see this space as not only providing a venue for teaching, learning and understanding, but also providing a practical demonstration of local food production on a small scale. Braidwood’s food producers and farmers, as in many other rural areas, are leading their local community into a different way of thinking about food production, managing landscapes and working with climate change. It is about seeing food production, care for the environment and consuming food as all part of the sustainable agricultural process.
Martin Royds, 2015
Tombarra is the perfect location for an accommodation and meeting venue. it was created in the 1980s as a family bush holiday retreat on the Mongarlowe River, in a lovely bush setting with a dam and a number of individual small cabins. Over the years we have restyled and updated the cabins and reconstructed other aspects of this idyllic space. We have a wonderful rustic style and also very functional workshop space, with a versatile small scale commercial kitchen and food prep area.
The vision: We see this space as not only providing a venue for teaching, learning and understanding, but also providing a practical demonstration of local food production on a small scale. Braidwood’s food producers and farmers, as in many other rural areas, are leading their local community into a different way of thinking about food production, managing landscapes and working with climate change. It is about seeing food production, care for the environment and consuming food as all part of the sustainable agricultural process.
Martin Royds, 2015