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Date:	04-May-2015	
Input sound file:	07. Weston Farm horticulture (Tas) V3	

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	I'm Richard Weston and I run Weston farm. What we're trying to do here at all times is quality. We produce a very good award winning olive oil. We grow herbaceous Peony Roses. We ship those to all States of Australia and we were sending them into South Korea and Los Angeles. We provide fresh quality produce to eight restaurants and growing. We do have poultry. We do have some pigs. I think the advantage in a small farm is we can diversify quickly. At the moment, we would have at least twelve to fifteen things we're selling to restaurants and that's the key for us.	
	Nuffield provide farming scholarships  and I was fortunate enough in 2012 to acquire one. It's a wonderful organisation that encourages people to, and provides an opportunity for people to study overseas. For me, it helped enormously because it gave me an opportunity to travel and see how the rest of the world is farming. The good things and the bad things.	
	We entered into a cafe business over 12 months ago. Our advantage over other restaurants and cafes is it has its own farm so we push the freshest produce through there and people are interested in that. They want to know where their food comes from. How I'm making a difference in agriculture? I think I'm making a difference in several areas. I think fundamentally one of them is employing people and I think it's very important for young people to have that opportunity to be employed. We've all have had opportunities in the past and when you look back, it's nice to have somebody take a chance on you and have the belief in you that you can help build their business.	
	I think agriculturally, we're doing things a little bit differently and I think that will provide an opportunity for other people I'd like to see follow in our foot steps. You don't need large scale agriculture, thousands of acres to make a living and a profession out of agriculture. Having had looked around the world, I think you can see lots of examples where small scale niche quality products-- there's a demand for them. People like to eat, but people also like to eat fine things and good quality things.	
	If I was to give advice to young people in agri, I would say if you feel you have a passion for agriculture/horticulture, find a pathway, go with the right training and the right people supporting you, and it's a good profession and it is a profession. It's a very important one if we're going to continue to feed people.	
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