Derek Smith

'SCIENCE MEETS NATURE'
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Derek Smith 
Working with Nature, Kenilworth Farm

A lifelong farmer, Derek has embraced natural farming as a way to protect biodiversity, store carbon and maintain consistent food production. He is currently running beef cattle, free range layer hens plus prime lambs on his property Kenilworth. 
For 20 years Derek shared his experience as an instructor at TAFE Armidale. As the teacher of a year-long course in organic farming and in the past, horticulture, he helps students apply organic or biologically enhancing principles to their own farms.

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PictureDerek (center) teaching farmer- students on his farm.
Over the years Derek has built on his Associate Diploma in Farm Management at Orange Ag College with courses in Holistic Management and Grazing for Profit. He earned his Bachelor of Farm Management at Orange (University of Sydney) in 2004 and a Certificate II in Assessment and Workplace Training in 2008.
​Derek has completed three stages of Neal Kinsey's Advanced Soil Management course and is now accredited as one of only four Kinsey/Albrecht practitioners in Australia.


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Derek and Fiona Smith own and manage 'Kenilworth Farm' at Guyra, NSW.  Along with teaching they farm cattle, pigs and pastured eggs.
​Visit the Working With Nature website.


​'A small farm with a big mission: to work with nature and grow food the way it was meant to be.  Good for you, good for the animals and good for the land.'




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